Triple
T17903079
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sam Merlotte |
E447631
|
entity |
| Predicate | portrayedBy |
P1507
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sam Trammell |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Sam Trammell | Statement: [Sam Merlotte, portrayedBy, Sam Trammell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Trammell Context triple: [Sam Merlotte, portrayedBy, Sam Trammell]
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A.
Sam Trammell
chosen
Sam Trammell is an American actor best known for his role as the shapeshifter Sam Merlotte on the HBO series "True Blood."
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B.
Todd Worrell
Todd Worrell is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as the St. Louis Cardinals’ hard-throwing closer of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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C.
Kevin Stephens
Kevin Stephens is a video game producer best known for his work on the action-adventure title Middle-earth: Shadow of War.
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D.
Bart Andrus
Bart Andrus is an American football coach best known for his work in NFL Europe and various professional and collegiate coaching roles.
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E.
Paul Molitor
Paul Molitor is a Hall of Fame American baseball player renowned as an elite contact hitter and versatile infielder/designated hitter, primarily with the Milwaukee Brewers and Toronto Blue Jays.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b9f59bd48190a6fc925a855b8bac |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e49e99c3188190aead24cd3d48c7a7 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 9:21 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:19 a.m.