Triple

T2251428
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Simpsons Ride E49624 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Waylon Smithers
Waylon Smithers is the loyal, sycophantic assistant to Mr. Burns on the animated television series "The Simpsons," known for his unrequited admiration for his boss and his meticulous, obedient nature.
E246660 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: Waylon Smithers | Statement: [The Simpsons Ride, featuresCharacter, Waylon Smithers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Waylon Smithers
Context triple: [The Simpsons Ride, featuresCharacter, Waylon Smithers]
  • A. Elwood Mead
    Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
  • B. Willie
    Willie is the first name of Willie Nelson, the iconic American country music singer-songwriter and cultural figure.
  • C. Sideshow Bob
    Sideshow Bob is a recurring villainous character on the animated TV series "The Simpsons," known for his refined manner, deep voice, and obsessive attempts to exact revenge on Bart Simpson.
  • D. Jimmie Gumm
    Jimmie Gumm is a member of the Gumm family, known primarily as a sibling of Mary Jane Gumm, part of the family connected to entertainer Judy Garland.
  • E. Glenn Quagmire
    Glenn Quagmire is a hypersexual, fast-talking airline pilot and neighbor of the Griffin family on the animated television series "Family Guy."
  • 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: Waylon Smithers
Triple: [The Simpsons Ride, featuresCharacter, Waylon Smithers]
Generated description
Waylon Smithers is the loyal, sycophantic assistant to Mr. Burns on the animated television series "The Simpsons," known for his unrequited admiration for his boss and his meticulous, obedient nature.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Waylon Smithers
Target entity description: Waylon Smithers is the loyal, sycophantic assistant to Mr. Burns on the animated television series "The Simpsons," known for his unrequited admiration for his boss and his meticulous, obedient nature.
  • A. Elwood Mead
    Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
  • B. Willie
    Willie is the first name of Willie Nelson, the iconic American country music singer-songwriter and cultural figure.
  • C. Sideshow Bob
    Sideshow Bob is a recurring villainous character on the animated TV series "The Simpsons," known for his refined manner, deep voice, and obsessive attempts to exact revenge on Bart Simpson.
  • D. Jimmie Gumm
    Jimmie Gumm is a member of the Gumm family, known primarily as a sibling of Mary Jane Gumm, part of the family connected to entertainer Judy Garland.
  • E. Glenn Quagmire
    Glenn Quagmire is a hypersexual, fast-talking airline pilot and neighbor of the Griffin family on the animated television series "Family Guy."
  • 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_69a88aaa9250819095e127d0d77e8a32 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc11d04688190abc04fac3a1804a9 completed March 7, 2026, 6:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6b1bc424819087b2ce9a6256a180 completed March 9, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6be0d108819085cf8c531d08db65 completed March 9, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6c0fc220819090b254cc20b1bc26 completed March 9, 2026, 6:43 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.