Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brian Kinney E347868 entity
Predicate friendOf P8712 FINISHED
Object Ted Schmidt
Ted Schmidt is a fictional character from the television series "Queer as Folk," portrayed as a kind-hearted but insecure gay man navigating relationships, self-esteem, and community.
E1186912 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
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: Ted Schmidt | Statement: [Brian Kinney, friendOf, Ted Schmidt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ted Schmidt
Context triple: [Brian Kinney, friendOf, Ted Schmidt]
  • A. Christopher Schmidt
    Christopher Schmidt is the real name of the DC Comics antihero Peacemaker, a vigilante obsessed with achieving peace through often extreme and violent means.
  • B. Warren Schmidt
    Warren Schmidt is the aging, recently retired insurance executive portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the film "About Schmidt," who embarks on a soul-searching journey after his wife's death.
  • C. Matthew Schmidt
    Matthew Schmidt is a film editor best known for his work on major Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including Avengers: Infinity War.
  • D. Daniel Schmitt
    Daniel Schmitt is the pseudonym of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a German technology activist best known as a former WikiLeaks spokesperson and founder of the whistleblowing platform OpenLeaks.
  • E. Scott Scherr
    Scott Scherr is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder and longtime CEO of the human capital management software company Ultimate Software.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
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: Ted Schmidt
Triple: [Brian Kinney, friendOf, Ted Schmidt]
Generated description
Ted Schmidt is a fictional character from the television series "Queer as Folk," portrayed as a kind-hearted but insecure gay man navigating relationships, self-esteem, and community.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ted Schmidt
Target entity description: Ted Schmidt is a fictional character from the television series "Queer as Folk," portrayed as a kind-hearted but insecure gay man navigating relationships, self-esteem, and community.
  • A. Christopher Schmidt
    Christopher Schmidt is the real name of the DC Comics antihero Peacemaker, a vigilante obsessed with achieving peace through often extreme and violent means.
  • B. Warren Schmidt
    Warren Schmidt is the aging, recently retired insurance executive portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the film "About Schmidt," who embarks on a soul-searching journey after his wife's death.
  • C. Matthew Schmidt
    Matthew Schmidt is a film editor best known for his work on major Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including Avengers: Infinity War.
  • D. Daniel Schmitt
    Daniel Schmitt is the pseudonym of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a German technology activist best known as a former WikiLeaks spokesperson and founder of the whistleblowing platform OpenLeaks.
  • E. Scott Scherr
    Scott Scherr is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder and longtime CEO of the human capital management software company Ultimate Software.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d822ea8b7c819097dfadf3d45545e6 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69decd62c36c81909c2993dc7d1a79ea completed April 14, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffbe60d4a08190833397c75b56932c completed May 9, 2026, 11:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffbf70d6488190944986503882678d completed May 9, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffc08179488190a8f434121bede859 completed May 9, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:31 a.m.