Triple

T16268333
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dennis Franz E394930 entity
Predicate changedSurnameTo P33068 FINISHED
Object Franz
Franz is the surname of American actor Dennis Franz, best known for his Emmy-winning role as Detective Andy Sipowicz on the television series "NYPD Blue."
 E658513 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: Franz | Statement: [Dennis Franz, changedSurnameTo, Franz]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Franz
Context triple: [Dennis Franz, changedSurnameTo, Franz]
  • A. Franz
    Franz is a character in Louisa May Alcott's novel "Little Men," one of the boys at Plumfield School whose experiences reflect the book's themes of growth, education, and moral development.
  • B. Franz
    Franz is one of the central, romantically entangled young protagonists in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 French New Wave film "Bande à part."
  • C. Franz
    Franz is the given name of Frank X. Leyendecker, an American illustrator known for his magazine covers and advertising art in the early 20th century.
  • D. Franz
    Franz is a masculine given name of German origin that has been borne by numerous notable figures in arts, science, and politics.
  • E. Franz
    Franz is the male lead in the ballet "Coppélia," a village youth whose infatuation with a mysterious girl leads to comic and romantic entanglements.
  • 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: Franz
Triple: [Dennis Franz, changedSurnameTo, Franz]
Generated description
Franz is the surname of American actor Dennis Franz, best known for his Emmy-winning role as Detective Andy Sipowicz on the television series "NYPD Blue."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Franz
Target entity description: Franz is the surname of American actor Dennis Franz, best known for his Emmy-winning role as Detective Andy Sipowicz on the television series "NYPD Blue."
  • A. Franz
    Franz is the given name of Frank X. Leyendecker, an American illustrator known for his magazine covers and advertising art in the early 20th century.
  • B. Franz chosen
    Franz is a German-language surname of Central European origin borne by various notable individuals.
  • C. Franz
    Franz is a masculine given name of German origin that has been borne by numerous notable figures in arts, science, and politics.
  • D. Franz
    Franz is the given name of Franz Cardinal König, a prominent 20th-century Austrian Catholic cardinal and influential church leader.
  • E. Franz
    Franz is one of the central, romantically entangled young protagonists in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 French New Wave film "Bande à part."
  • F. None of above.

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_69d87f221d8081909b0b2063e7528ba2 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e245ca5c708190a1e98ab37740c032 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0017bb1d64819080f007656307f58b completed May 10, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a001876efb081909c0940ebcf265f15 completed May 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0018f6de84819087b8e97b0400c77d completed May 10, 2026, 5:34 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:05 a.m.