Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Date Night E344193 entity
Predicate hasMainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Phil Foster
Phil Foster is the hapless yet determined suburban husband and father portrayed by Steve Carell in the comedy film "Date Night."
 E1137266 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Phil Foster | Statement: [Date Night, hasMainCharacter, Phil Foster]

Disambiguation candidates (2 decisions)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Phil Foster
Context triple: [Date Night, hasMainCharacter, Phil Foster]
  • A. Phil Foster
    Phil Foster was an American actor and comedian best known for playing Laverne’s father, Frank DeFazio, on the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley."
  • B. Jim Foster
    Jim Foster is an American sports executive best known as the creator and founding figure of the Arena Football League.
  • C. Jeff Foster
    Jeff Foster is an entrepreneur best known for founding the global athletic footwear and apparel brand Reebok.
  • D. James Foster
    James Foster is an economist known for his influential work on poverty measurement and social welfare, including co-developing the widely used Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty indices.
  • E. Michael Ferguson
    Michael Ferguson is a television director known for his work on the British soap opera EastEnders.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Phil Foster
Target entity description: Phil Foster is the hapless yet determined suburban husband and father portrayed by Steve Carell in the comedy film "Date Night."
  • A. Phil Foster
    Phil Foster was an American actor and comedian best known for playing Laverne’s father, Frank DeFazio, on the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley."
  • B. Jim Foster
    Jim Foster is an American sports executive best known as the creator and founding figure of the Arena Football League.
  • C. Jeff Foster
    Jeff Foster is an entrepreneur best known for founding the global athletic footwear and apparel brand Reebok.
  • D. James Foster
    James Foster is an economist known for his influential work on poverty measurement and social welfare, including co-developing the widely used Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty indices.
  • E. Michael Ferguson
    Michael Ferguson is a television director known for his work on the British soap opera EastEnders.
  • F. None of above. chosen

How the object was described

The object's one-sentence description was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the object name and this triple as context.

Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Phil Foster
Triple: [Date Night, hasMainCharacter, Phil Foster]
Generated description
Phil Foster is the hapless yet determined suburban husband and father portrayed by Steve Carell in the comedy film "Date Night."

Provenance (5 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d822e283fc8190a0e4c235cf880052 elicitation completed
NER batch_69deb51b6a248190a44050c0e0ec2d16 ner completed
NED1 batch_69feadfd53a48190b7efaa4c470da784 ned_source_triple completed
NED2 batch_69feb10503b08190b57f408247d4e085 ned_description completed
NEDg batch_69feb0af0e3c8190b3a52ac0f119c9c3 nedg completed
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:27 a.m.