Triple

T15492729
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ralph Forbes E378735 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Ralph Forbes Taylor
Ralph Forbes Taylor, better known as Ralph Forbes, was a British-born film and stage actor active in Hollywood during the silent and early sound eras.
E1161256 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: Ralph Forbes Taylor | Statement: [Ralph Forbes, birthName, Ralph Forbes Taylor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ralph Forbes Taylor
Context triple: [Ralph Forbes, birthName, Ralph Forbes Taylor]
  • A. Joseph Pannill Taylor
    Joseph Pannill Taylor was a 19th-century American military officer who served as a Union Army brigadier general and was the brother of U.S. President Zachary Taylor.
  • B. Griffith Taylor
    Griffith Taylor was an Australian geographer and geologist renowned for his pioneering polar research and influential work in climatology and human geography.
  • C. Clark C. Taylor
    Clark C. Taylor is the son of American folk singer and songwriter Judy Collins.
  • D. Frank E. Taylor
    Frank E. Taylor was a film producer best known for his work on the classic 1961 drama "The Misfits," starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable.
  • E. Francis Newton Gifford
    Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
  • 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: Ralph Forbes Taylor
Triple: [Ralph Forbes, birthName, Ralph Forbes Taylor]
Generated description
Ralph Forbes Taylor, better known as Ralph Forbes, was a British-born film and stage actor active in Hollywood during the silent and early sound eras.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ralph Forbes Taylor
Target entity description: Ralph Forbes Taylor, better known as Ralph Forbes, was a British-born film and stage actor active in Hollywood during the silent and early sound eras.
  • A. Joseph Pannill Taylor
    Joseph Pannill Taylor was a 19th-century American military officer who served as a Union Army brigadier general and was the brother of U.S. President Zachary Taylor.
  • B. Griffith Taylor
    Griffith Taylor was an Australian geographer and geologist renowned for his pioneering polar research and influential work in climatology and human geography.
  • C. Clark C. Taylor
    Clark C. Taylor is the son of American folk singer and songwriter Judy Collins.
  • D. Frank E. Taylor
    Frank E. Taylor was a film producer best known for his work on the classic 1961 drama "The Misfits," starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable.
  • E. Francis Newton Gifford
    Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
  • 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_69d85cd53a7c819080f5b9042c4c199e completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03fad723481908d2aa33e8f065f2f completed April 16, 2026, 1:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff3660fc6c81908caf1729260a8338 completed May 9, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff373558c88190983792d12956886e completed May 9, 2026, 1:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff37c1b1e081909662b37eb5a2da1a completed May 9, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:49 a.m.