Triple
T18372959
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | WKRP in Cincinnati |
E446231
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasCastMember |
P2308
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Jan Smithers |
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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: Jan Smithers | Statement: [WKRP in Cincinnati, hasCastMember, Jan Smithers]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jan Smithers Context triple: [WKRP in Cincinnati, hasCastMember, Jan Smithers]
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A.
Jan Smithers
chosen
Jan Smithers is an American actress best known for her role as Bailey Quarters on the television sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati."
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B.
Ned Kynaston
Ned Kynaston is a character in the film "Stage Beauty," portrayed as one of the last celebrated male actors to specialize in playing female roles on the 17th-century English stage.
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C.
Donald Farfrae
Donald Farfrae is a capable and good-natured Scottish grain merchant who rises to prominence in Thomas Hardy’s novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge," becoming both business rival and eventual successor to Michael Henchard.
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D.
Peter Smithers
Peter Smithers was a British Conservative politician, diplomat, and former intelligence officer who notably served as Secretary General of the Council of Europe in the 1960s.
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E.
Willie Somerset
Willie Somerset is an American former professional basketball player best known for his standout scoring and playmaking in the late 1960s, including a notable stint in the American Basketball Association.
- 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_69d8b9f370b88190b1e5081c2c238e7f |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e517561edc8190b5d2834707ab662b |
completed | April 19, 2026, 5:56 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:45 a.m.