Triple
T16865933
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Charles Middleton |
E410036
|
entity |
| Predicate | birthName |
P65
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Charles Brown Middleton
Charles Brown Middleton was an American character actor best known for portraying the villainous Emperor Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon film serials of the 1930s.
|
E1236909
|
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: Charles Brown Middleton | Statement: [Charles Middleton, birthName, Charles Brown Middleton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Brown Middleton Context triple: [Charles Middleton, birthName, Charles Brown Middleton]
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A.
Charles Brown
Charles Brown was an American blues singer, pianist, and songwriter known for his smooth, mellow style and influential holiday recordings in the postwar R&B era.
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B.
Charles Brown
Charles Brown was a shipbuilder known for constructing the North River Steamboat, one of the earliest commercially successful steamboats in the United States.
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C.
Shepherd Henderson
Shepherd Henderson is the romantic lead in the 1958 fantasy–romantic comedy film "Bell, Book and Candle," where he becomes the unwitting target of a modern witch’s love spell.
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D.
Chesney Henry Baker Jr.
Chesney Henry Baker Jr., better known as Chet Baker, was an influential American jazz trumpeter and vocalist renowned for his lyrical playing and cool, understated singing style.
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E.
William Holly Johnson
William Holly Johnson is an English artist, musician, and writer best known as the lead vocalist of the 1980s pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
- 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: Charles Brown Middleton Triple: [Charles Middleton, birthName, Charles Brown Middleton]
Generated description
Charles Brown Middleton was an American character actor best known for portraying the villainous Emperor Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon film serials of the 1930s.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Brown Middleton Target entity description: Charles Brown Middleton was an American character actor best known for portraying the villainous Emperor Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon film serials of the 1930s.
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A.
Charles Brown
Charles Brown was an American blues singer, pianist, and songwriter known for his smooth, mellow style and influential holiday recordings in the postwar R&B era.
-
B.
Charles Brown
Charles Brown was a shipbuilder known for constructing the North River Steamboat, one of the earliest commercially successful steamboats in the United States.
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C.
Shepherd Henderson
Shepherd Henderson is the romantic lead in the 1958 fantasy–romantic comedy film "Bell, Book and Candle," where he becomes the unwitting target of a modern witch’s love spell.
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D.
Chesney Henry Baker Jr.
Chesney Henry Baker Jr., better known as Chet Baker, was an influential American jazz trumpeter and vocalist renowned for his lyrical playing and cool, understated singing style.
-
E.
William Holly Johnson
William Holly Johnson is an English artist, musician, and writer best known as the lead vocalist of the 1980s pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
- 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_69d88395e6c88190b22730f335107c14 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:59 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e3b5088f208190abfe937633ebe3fe |
completed | April 18, 2026, 4:44 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a00bb294c0481908306e1f604cc7404 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 5:06 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a00bbd9260c8190be29ee8cb3e05f2c |
completed | May 10, 2026, 5:09 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a00bc633abc8190a86808986ba294ec |
completed | May 10, 2026, 5:12 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:24 a.m.