Triple

T16163834
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Penny Pingleton E392248 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Kerry Butler
Kerry Butler is an American actress and singer best known for her work in Broadway musicals such as Hairspray, Xanadu, and Mean Girls.
E1199810 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: Kerry Butler | Statement: [Penny Pingleton, portrayedBy, Kerry Butler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kerry Butler
Context triple: [Penny Pingleton, portrayedBy, Kerry Butler]
  • A. Merriel Shelton
    Merriel "Snafu" Shelton was a U.S. Marine whose World War II service in the Pacific, particularly as depicted in the miniseries "The Pacific," made him a notable historical figure.
  • B. Kerris Dorsey
    Kerris Dorsey is an American actress and singer best known for her roles in the TV series "Ray Donovan" and the film "Moneyball."
  • C. Dawnn Lewis
    Dawnn Lewis is an American actress and singer best known for her role as Jaleesa Vinson-Taylor on the television sitcom "A Different World."
  • D. Lee Everett
    Lee Everett is the compassionate yet troubled former history professor who serves as the central playable protagonist in Telltale Games’ first season of The Walking Dead.
  • E. Cherise Boothe
    Cherise Boothe is an American actress and voice actress known for her work in film, television, theater, and video games.
  • 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: Kerry Butler
Triple: [Penny Pingleton, portrayedBy, Kerry Butler]
Generated description
Kerry Butler is an American actress and singer best known for her work in Broadway musicals such as Hairspray, Xanadu, and Mean Girls.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kerry Butler
Target entity description: Kerry Butler is an American actress and singer best known for her work in Broadway musicals such as Hairspray, Xanadu, and Mean Girls.
  • A. Merriel Shelton
    Merriel "Snafu" Shelton was a U.S. Marine whose World War II service in the Pacific, particularly as depicted in the miniseries "The Pacific," made him a notable historical figure.
  • B. Kerris Dorsey
    Kerris Dorsey is an American actress and singer best known for her roles in the TV series "Ray Donovan" and the film "Moneyball."
  • C. Dawnn Lewis
    Dawnn Lewis is an American actress and singer best known for her role as Jaleesa Vinson-Taylor on the television sitcom "A Different World."
  • D. Lee Everett
    Lee Everett is the compassionate yet troubled former history professor who serves as the central playable protagonist in Telltale Games’ first season of The Walking Dead.
  • E. Cherise Boothe
    Cherise Boothe is an American actress and voice actress known for her work in film, television, theater, and video games.
  • 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_69d87f1d32208190942e4e499a80c18c completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e21e616770819093f16c88722b2a7d completed April 17, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fffef96a088190a1c1728288a9c4ef completed May 10, 2026, 3:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a000314d288819099ca1e95124e2c12 completed May 10, 2026, 4:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0004568ca08190bac451cf334ceac1 completed May 10, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:02 a.m.