Triple

T2173084
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject MASH E48466 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Frank Burns
Frank Burns is a pompous, inept, and hypocritical Army surgeon who serves as a primary antagonist on the television series M*A*S*H.
E243084 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: Frank Burns | Statement: [MASH, character, Frank Burns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Burns
Context triple: [MASH, character, Frank Burns]
  • A. Bill Burns
    Bill Burns was an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who became notorious as a key gambling intermediary in the 1919 Black Sox World Series fixing scandal.
  • B. Curt Menefee
    Curt Menefee is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime studio host of Fox's NFL coverage.
  • C. David Kurtz
    David Kurtz is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the surname associated with the name Kurtz.
  • D. Jerome Kurtz
    Jerome Kurtz was an American lawyer and tax expert who served as the U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue during the Carter administration, where he pursued significant tax reform and enforcement initiatives.
  • E. Stanley Mazor
    Stanley Mazor is an American computer engineer best known as one of the key designers of the first commercial microprocessor and an early pioneer in microprocessor architecture at Intel.
  • 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: Frank Burns
Triple: [MASH, character, Frank Burns]
Generated description
Frank Burns is a pompous, inept, and hypocritical Army surgeon who serves as a primary antagonist on the television series M*A*S*H.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Burns
Target entity description: Frank Burns is a pompous, inept, and hypocritical Army surgeon who serves as a primary antagonist on the television series M*A*S*H.
  • A. Bill Burns
    Bill Burns was an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who became notorious as a key gambling intermediary in the 1919 Black Sox World Series fixing scandal.
  • B. Curt Menefee
    Curt Menefee is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime studio host of Fox's NFL coverage.
  • C. David Kurtz
    David Kurtz is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the surname associated with the name Kurtz.
  • D. Jerome Kurtz
    Jerome Kurtz was an American lawyer and tax expert who served as the U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue during the Carter administration, where he pursued significant tax reform and enforcement initiatives.
  • E. Stanley Mazor
    Stanley Mazor is an American computer engineer best known as one of the key designers of the first commercial microprocessor and an early pioneer in microprocessor architecture at Intel.
  • 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_69a88aa3faa48190995b233af6525815 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbecb97a48190834e3e536184bbd1 completed March 7, 2026, 5:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae5d9c61448190930777bcf2028882 completed March 9, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae5e1ea6108190b22ead618d620613 completed March 9, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5ea7909c8190a93d87a5d07b84d4 completed March 9, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:45 p.m.