Triple

T15336020
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hal Smith E366667 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Harold John Smith
Harold John Smith, better known as Hal Smith, was an American actor and voice actor best remembered for playing Otis Campbell on the television series "The Andy Griffith Show."
E1154028 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: Harold John Smith | Statement: [Hal Smith, birthName, Harold John Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold John Smith
Context triple: [Hal Smith, birthName, Harold John Smith]
  • A. Harold Jacob Smith
    Harold Jacob Smith was an American screenwriter best known for his Academy Award–winning work on socially conscious films in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Sidney Earle Smith
    Sidney Earle Smith was a Canadian academic and politician who served as president of the University of Toronto and later as Secretary of State for External Affairs.
  • C. Harold Briggs
    Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
  • D. Arthur J. Brown
    Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
  • E. William F. Smith
    William F. Smith was an individual interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, a historic burial ground for many notable figures.
  • 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: Harold John Smith
Triple: [Hal Smith, birthName, Harold John Smith]
Generated description
Harold John Smith, better known as Hal Smith, was an American actor and voice actor best remembered for playing Otis Campbell on the television series "The Andy Griffith Show."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold John Smith
Target entity description: Harold John Smith, better known as Hal Smith, was an American actor and voice actor best remembered for playing Otis Campbell on the television series "The Andy Griffith Show."
  • A. Harold Jacob Smith
    Harold Jacob Smith was an American screenwriter best known for his Academy Award–winning work on socially conscious films in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Sidney Earle Smith
    Sidney Earle Smith was a Canadian academic and politician who served as president of the University of Toronto and later as Secretary of State for External Affairs.
  • C. Harold Briggs
    Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
  • D. Arthur J. Brown
    Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
  • E. William F. Smith
    William F. Smith was an individual interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, a historic burial ground for many notable figures.
  • 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_69d85a1355608190a6673ddb67231d54 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03e03c5f081908e4d14dbdbc7f7a6 completed April 16, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff133f242c819099ec5288ae4a622f completed May 9, 2026, 10:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff14042ce8819084817836b096f175 completed May 9, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff14745a8c81909b10d6b21b88b50b completed May 9, 2026, 11:03 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:17 a.m.