Triple

T15289186
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Matchstick Men E365482 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Roy Waller
Roy Waller is a neurotic, obsessive-compulsive con artist whose life unravels when he discovers he may have a teenage daughter in the film "Matchstick Men."
E1149009 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: Roy Waller | Statement: [Matchstick Men, mainCharacter, Roy Waller]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roy Waller
Context triple: [Matchstick Men, mainCharacter, Roy Waller]
  • A. Phil Wallace
    Phil Wallace is a British businessman best known for owning and serving as long-time chairman of Stevenage Football Club.
  • B. Ed Steele
    Ed Steele was a professional baseball player in the Negro Leagues, best known as an outfielder for the Birmingham Black Barons.
  • C. Mitch Morgan
    Mitch Morgan is the central protagonist of the TV series "Zoo," a brilliant but unconventional zoologist who investigates and combats a mysterious global animal uprising.
  • D. Hugh Shelton
    Hugh Shelton is a retired U.S. Army general who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and played key leadership roles in major American military operations of the 1990s.
  • E. Scott Burkholder
    Scott Burkholder is an actor known for his role in the television series "Cobb."
  • 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: Roy Waller
Triple: [Matchstick Men, mainCharacter, Roy Waller]
Generated description
Roy Waller is a neurotic, obsessive-compulsive con artist whose life unravels when he discovers he may have a teenage daughter in the film "Matchstick Men."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roy Waller
Target entity description: Roy Waller is a neurotic, obsessive-compulsive con artist whose life unravels when he discovers he may have a teenage daughter in the film "Matchstick Men."
  • A. Phil Wallace
    Phil Wallace is a British businessman best known for owning and serving as long-time chairman of Stevenage Football Club.
  • B. Ed Steele
    Ed Steele was a professional baseball player in the Negro Leagues, best known as an outfielder for the Birmingham Black Barons.
  • C. Mitch Morgan
    Mitch Morgan is the central protagonist of the TV series "Zoo," a brilliant but unconventional zoologist who investigates and combats a mysterious global animal uprising.
  • D. Hugh Shelton
    Hugh Shelton is a retired U.S. Army general who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and played key leadership roles in major American military operations of the 1990s.
  • E. Scott Burkholder
    Scott Burkholder is an actor known for his role in the television series "Cobb."
  • 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_69d85a103d9081908c1ea6c4c73ac8e3 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e00e5635b4819092a69b5806d15bff completed April 15, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69feef7b73a08190b06856c05ea8c80d completed May 9, 2026, 8:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fef38868548190877cf25a38bb805a completed May 9, 2026, 8:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fef435b1208190bd839297a2f8d3f4 completed May 9, 2026, 8:45 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:15 a.m.