Triple

T15199697
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Best Seller E363232 entity
Predicate hasActorRole P104626 FINISHED
Object Brian Dennehy plays Dennis Meechum
Brian Dennehy is an American actor renowned for his powerful character roles in film, television, and theater, often portraying tough, authoritative figures.
 E1144155 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: Brian Dennehy plays Dennis Meechum | Statement: [Best Seller, hasActorRole, Brian Dennehy plays Dennis Meechum]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Brian Dennehy plays Dennis Meechum
Context triple: [Best Seller, hasActorRole, Brian Dennehy plays Dennis Meechum]
  • A. Tommy Lee Jones as Gene McClary
    Tommy Lee Jones as Gene McClary is the portrayal of a seasoned, morally conflicted corporate executive grappling with loyalty, layoffs, and personal integrity in the drama film "The Company Men."
  • B. Paul Giamatti as Mike Flaherty
    Paul Giamatti as Mike Flaherty is the lead performance in the film "Win Win," where he plays a struggling small-town lawyer and high school wrestling coach whose morally dubious decision upends his life.
  • C. Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey
    Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey is the harried, increasingly frazzled air traffic control supervisor whose escalating declarations about what he’s “picked the wrong week” to quit provide one of the running gags in the disaster-movie spoof Airplane!.
  • D. Anthony Hopkins as William Parrish
    Anthony Hopkins as William Parrish is the distinguished, aging media tycoon whose confrontation with mortality and mysterious visitor Joe Black drives the emotional core of the film "Meet Joe Black."
  • E. James Garner as Murphy Jones
    James Garner as Murphy Jones is the charming, widowed small-town pharmacist whose warm, understated performance anchors the romantic comedy-drama film "Murphy's Romance."
  • 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: Brian Dennehy plays Dennis Meechum
Triple: [Best Seller, hasActorRole, Brian Dennehy plays Dennis Meechum]
Generated description
Brian Dennehy is an American actor renowned for his powerful character roles in film, television, and theater, often portraying tough, authoritative figures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Brian Dennehy plays Dennis Meechum
Target entity description: Brian Dennehy is an American actor renowned for his powerful character roles in film, television, and theater, often portraying tough, authoritative figures.
  • A. Tommy Lee Jones as Gene McClary
    Tommy Lee Jones as Gene McClary is the portrayal of a seasoned, morally conflicted corporate executive grappling with loyalty, layoffs, and personal integrity in the drama film "The Company Men."
  • B. Paul Giamatti as Mike Flaherty
    Paul Giamatti as Mike Flaherty is the lead performance in the film "Win Win," where he plays a struggling small-town lawyer and high school wrestling coach whose morally dubious decision upends his life.
  • C. Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey
    Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey is the harried, increasingly frazzled air traffic control supervisor whose escalating declarations about what he’s “picked the wrong week” to quit provide one of the running gags in the disaster-movie spoof Airplane!.
  • D. Anthony Hopkins as William Parrish
    Anthony Hopkins as William Parrish is the distinguished, aging media tycoon whose confrontation with mortality and mysterious visitor Joe Black drives the emotional core of the film "Meet Joe Black."
  • E. James Garner as Murphy Jones
    James Garner as Murphy Jones is the charming, widowed small-town pharmacist whose warm, understated performance anchors the romantic comedy-drama film "Murphy's Romance."
  • 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_69d85a0b78bc8190b6e5ad51a2c4cfc5 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e006b476208190a5119710c518bb1f completed April 15, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fed3363f688190a5c728846bea743a completed May 9, 2026, 6:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fed76d6a888190b44efa490df4b6d0 completed May 9, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69feda443c64819087cb16ce742e7cc5 completed May 9, 2026, 6:55 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:10 a.m.