Triple
T22442373
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James Gilmore Backus |
E554783
|
entity |
| Predicate | characterPortrayed |
P1507
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thurston Howell III |
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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: Thurston Howell III | Statement: [James Gilmore Backus, characterPortrayed, Thurston Howell III]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thurston Howell III Context triple: [James Gilmore Backus, characterPortrayed, Thurston Howell III]
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A.
Thurston Howell III
chosen
Thurston Howell III is a fictional, ultra-wealthy and snobbish castaway from the TV sitcom "Gilligan’s Island," known for his aristocratic mannerisms and comic ineptitude.
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B.
Ulysses Everett McGill
Ulysses Everett McGill is the fast-talking, self-styled intellectual escapee who leads a trio of convicts on a comedic odyssey through 1930s Mississippi in the film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?".
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C.
Frank Bledsoe
Frank Bledsoe is the closeted gay literature professor at the center of the film "Uncle Frank," whose road trip with his niece forces him to confront his past and his Southern family's prejudices.
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D.
Jack Sanford
Jack Sanford was an American right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher, best known for his standout 1957 Rookie of the Year season and his role as a top starter for the San Francisco Giants in the early 1960s.
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E.
Niles Spencer
Niles Spencer was an American painter associated with the Precisionist movement, known for his simplified, geometric depictions of industrial and urban landscapes.
- 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_69e11e5010e48190ae1e9c9db9697637 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f15ae2f7608190b1c1e8bd12ca2162 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 1:12 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:47 p.m.