Triple
T22947834
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Herman's Head |
E569922
|
entity |
| Predicate | portrayedBy |
P1507
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Ragsdale |
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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: William Ragsdale | Statement: [Herman's Head, portrayedBy, William Ragsdale]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Ragsdale Context triple: [Herman's Head, portrayedBy, William Ragsdale]
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A.
William Ragsdale
chosen
William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
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B.
David Ragsdale
David Ragsdale is an American rock violinist best known for his work with the band Kansas and various collaborations in progressive and jam rock circles.
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C.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
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D.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
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E.
Charles Greenway
Charles Greenway was a British businessman and industrialist best known for his leading role in developing the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a precursor to BP.
- 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_69e2459199d08190a8184ee2aa935842 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1819fbf8c8190ad80c93f1507aa73 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 3:57 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:46 p.m.