Triple

T2249675
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Leslie Howard E49586 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Ronald Howard
Ronald Howard was a British actor and writer best known for his film and television work in the mid-20th century, including portraying Sherlock Holmes in a 1954 TV series.
E247476 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: Ronald Howard | Statement: [Leslie Howard, child, Ronald Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ronald Howard
Context triple: [Leslie Howard, child, Ronald Howard]
  • A. Ronald William Howard
    Ronald William Howard is an American filmmaker and former child actor best known for starring in "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Happy Days" and directing acclaimed films such as "Apollo 13" and "A Beautiful Mind."
  • B. Milburn G. Apt
    Milburn G. Apt was a United States Air Force test pilot and the first person to exceed Mach 3, who died in the crash of the Bell X-2 during a record-setting flight in 1956.
  • C. Donald A. Henderson
    Donald A. Henderson was an American epidemiologist who led the World Health Organization’s successful global campaign to eradicate smallpox.
  • D. Philip M. Kaiser
    Philip M. Kaiser was an American diplomat and public servant who held several key ambassadorial posts during the Cold War era.
  • E. Robert S. Boyer
    Robert S. Boyer is an American computer scientist and logician known for his pioneering work in automated theorem proving and formal methods in software verification.
  • 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: Ronald Howard
Triple: [Leslie Howard, child, Ronald Howard]
Generated description
Ronald Howard was a British actor and writer best known for his film and television work in the mid-20th century, including portraying Sherlock Holmes in a 1954 TV series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ronald Howard
Target entity description: Ronald Howard was a British actor and writer best known for his film and television work in the mid-20th century, including portraying Sherlock Holmes in a 1954 TV series.
  • A. Ronald William Howard
    Ronald William Howard is an American filmmaker and former child actor best known for starring in "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Happy Days" and directing acclaimed films such as "Apollo 13" and "A Beautiful Mind."
  • B. Milburn G. Apt
    Milburn G. Apt was a United States Air Force test pilot and the first person to exceed Mach 3, who died in the crash of the Bell X-2 during a record-setting flight in 1956.
  • C. Donald A. Henderson
    Donald A. Henderson was an American epidemiologist who led the World Health Organization’s successful global campaign to eradicate smallpox.
  • D. Philip M. Kaiser
    Philip M. Kaiser was an American diplomat and public servant who held several key ambassadorial posts during the Cold War era.
  • E. Robert S. Boyer
    Robert S. Boyer is an American computer scientist and logician known for his pioneering work in automated theorem proving and formal methods in software verification.
  • 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_69a88aa979788190ad6500f1d8eee2fc completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc0ef74988190a0af51d983cf5658 completed March 7, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6b1948cc8190921b9fcc12c28db0 completed March 9, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6b73bb688190bcade17d991c4862 completed March 9, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6be4431c81909c9b4ad82226215d completed March 9, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.