Triple

T14938798
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Merrily We Roll Along E372466 entity
Predicate followsCharacters P24748 FINISHED
Object Franklin Shepard
Franklin Shepard is the ambitious composer-turned-Hollywood producer at the center of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical "Merrily We Roll Along," whose life and friendships are traced in reverse chronology.
E1129004 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: Franklin Shepard | Statement: [Merrily We Roll Along, followsCharacters, Franklin Shepard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Franklin Shepard
Context triple: [Merrily We Roll Along, followsCharacters, Franklin Shepard]
  • A. Franklin Hart Jr.
    Franklin Hart Jr. is the sexist, egotistical, and tyrannical boss who serves as the primary antagonist in the comedy film "9 to 5."
  • B. Franklin Rood
    Franklin Rood is the sadistic serial killer antagonist at the center of the 2012 horror film "Shiver."
  • C. Franklin Armstrong
    Franklin Armstrong is a thoughtful and good-natured character from the Peanuts comic strip, notable as one of the first African American characters in mainstream American comics.
  • D. Franklin Simmons
    Franklin Simmons was a 19th-century American sculptor known for his public monuments and commemorative statues, particularly those related to the Civil War.
  • E. Franklin Gardner
    Franklin Gardner was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War best known for leading the prolonged defense of Port Hudson, Louisiana.
  • 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: Franklin Shepard
Triple: [Merrily We Roll Along, followsCharacters, Franklin Shepard]
Generated description
Franklin Shepard is the ambitious composer-turned-Hollywood producer at the center of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical "Merrily We Roll Along," whose life and friendships are traced in reverse chronology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Franklin Shepard
Target entity description: Franklin Shepard is the ambitious composer-turned-Hollywood producer at the center of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical "Merrily We Roll Along," whose life and friendships are traced in reverse chronology.
  • A. Franklin Hart Jr.
    Franklin Hart Jr. is the sexist, egotistical, and tyrannical boss who serves as the primary antagonist in the comedy film "9 to 5."
  • B. Franklin Rood
    Franklin Rood is the sadistic serial killer antagonist at the center of the 2012 horror film "Shiver."
  • C. Franklin Armstrong
    Franklin Armstrong is a thoughtful and good-natured character from the Peanuts comic strip, notable as one of the first African American characters in mainstream American comics.
  • D. Franklin Simmons
    Franklin Simmons was a 19th-century American sculptor known for his public monuments and commemorative statues, particularly those related to the Civil War.
  • E. Franklin Gardner
    Franklin Gardner was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War best known for leading the prolonged defense of Port Hudson, Louisiana.
  • 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_69d85cc9da0c81908d583ca3f63a3908 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded64904d88190b6b4140da8e8199d completed April 15, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe7e9078508190b5cbfe84125ba209 completed May 9, 2026, 12:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe83361ad08190b98523c2d171a11e completed May 9, 2026, 12:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe83f4a8b08190913d42808acf694d completed May 9, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:38 a.m.