Triple

T2341800
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ziegfeld Follies E45041 entity
Predicate notablePerformer P17435 FINISHED
Object W. C. Fields
W. C. Fields was a famed American comedian, actor, and writer known for his misanthropic persona, distinctive drawl, and influential work in vaudeville and early Hollywood films.
E258794 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: W. C. Fields | Statement: [Ziegfeld Follies, notablePerformer, W. C. Fields]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. C. Fields
Context triple: [Ziegfeld Follies, notablePerformer, W. C. Fields]
  • A. Charley Chase
    Charley Chase was an American silent and early sound film comedian, actor, and director best known for his work in short comedies at the Hal Roach Studios in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • B. Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton was a pioneering American silent film actor, comedian, and director renowned for his deadpan expression and innovative physical comedy.
  • C. Red Skelton
    Red Skelton was a beloved American comedian, actor, and radio and television entertainer best known for his long-running TV variety show and iconic clown characters.
  • D. Oliver Hardy
    Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor best known as one half of the legendary film comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.
  • E. Bob Hope
    Bob Hope was a British-American comedian and actor renowned for his quick wit, countless USO shows entertaining troops, and a long film and television career spanning much of the 20th century.
  • 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: W. C. Fields
Triple: [Ziegfeld Follies, notablePerformer, W. C. Fields]
Generated description
W. C. Fields was a famed American comedian, actor, and writer known for his misanthropic persona, distinctive drawl, and influential work in vaudeville and early Hollywood films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. C. Fields
Target entity description: W. C. Fields was a famed American comedian, actor, and writer known for his misanthropic persona, distinctive drawl, and influential work in vaudeville and early Hollywood films.
  • A. Charley Chase
    Charley Chase was an American silent and early sound film comedian, actor, and director best known for his work in short comedies at the Hal Roach Studios in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • B. Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton was a pioneering American silent film actor, comedian, and director renowned for his deadpan expression and innovative physical comedy.
  • C. Red Skelton
    Red Skelton was a beloved American comedian, actor, and radio and television entertainer best known for his long-running TV variety show and iconic clown characters.
  • D. Oliver Hardy
    Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor best known as one half of the legendary film comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.
  • E. Bob Hope
    Bob Hope was a British-American comedian and actor renowned for his quick wit, countless USO shows entertaining troops, and a long film and television career spanning much of the 20th century.
  • 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_69a88917935081909b755dbf38e81024 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc6ad01fc81909e386986e9acc989 completed March 7, 2026, 6:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae9622cdb08190835222482bd22cf4 completed March 9, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae977776ec8190ad5f7ce4594d73d9 completed March 9, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae9b64daf08190afa6898242bde864 completed March 9, 2026, 10:05 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:52 p.m.