Triple

T1746175
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject CSI: Crime Scene Investigation E38339 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object William Petersen
William Petersen is an American actor best known for his role as forensic entomologist and team leader Gil Grissom on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
E204324 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: William Petersen | Statement: [CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, portrayedBy, William Petersen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Petersen
Context triple: [CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, portrayedBy, William Petersen]
  • A. Scott Glenn
    Scott Glenn is an American actor known for his intense, rugged performances in films such as "The Right Stuff," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Backdraft."
  • B. George Norton
    George Norton was a British colonial-era lawyer and educator best known for establishing Presidency College in Madras, one of India’s earliest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning.
  • C. Tom Willis
    Tom Willis is a prominent character on the sitcom "The Jeffersons," known as George and Louise Jefferson’s white neighbor in an interracial marriage that often highlights social and racial tensions with humor.
  • D. William A. Petersen
    William A. Petersen was a 19th-century Washington, D.C. tailor and boardinghouse owner whose home became historically significant as the place where President Abraham Lincoln died.
  • E. Bob Gunton
    Bob Gunton is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the strict prison warden Samuel Norton in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
  • 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: William Petersen
Triple: [CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, portrayedBy, William Petersen]
Generated description
William Petersen is an American actor best known for his role as forensic entomologist and team leader Gil Grissom on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Petersen
Target entity description: William Petersen is an American actor best known for his role as forensic entomologist and team leader Gil Grissom on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
  • A. Scott Glenn
    Scott Glenn is an American actor known for his intense, rugged performances in films such as "The Right Stuff," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Backdraft."
  • B. George Norton
    George Norton was a British colonial-era lawyer and educator best known for establishing Presidency College in Madras, one of India’s earliest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning.
  • C. Tom Willis
    Tom Willis is a prominent character on the sitcom "The Jeffersons," known as George and Louise Jefferson’s white neighbor in an interracial marriage that often highlights social and racial tensions with humor.
  • D. William A. Petersen
    William A. Petersen was a 19th-century Washington, D.C. tailor and boardinghouse owner whose home became historically significant as the place where President Abraham Lincoln died.
  • E. Bob Gunton
    Bob Gunton is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the strict prison warden Samuel Norton in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
  • 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_69a8862b01a48190ab47209063af82d9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa63eabdf48190878ecde3d1b1faf3 completed March 6, 2026, 5:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adbf4ba8fc81909b538168a4403330 completed March 8, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adc2b4d8a0819080ff41cf73417276 completed March 8, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adc38732d8819092e0ac76354f08c1 completed March 8, 2026, 6:44 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.