Triple

T2351766
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Faculty E47462 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Christopher McDonald
Christopher McDonald is an American character actor best known for his frequent supporting roles in film and television, including his iconic turn as Shooter McGavin in the comedy "Happy Gilmore."
E271637 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: Christopher McDonald | Statement: [The Faculty, castMember, Christopher McDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christopher McDonald
Context triple: [The Faculty, castMember, Christopher McDonald]
  • A. Tim Mahoney
    Tim Mahoney is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band 311.
  • B. Jason Miller
    Jason Miller was an American actor and playwright best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Father Damien Karras in the classic horror film "The Exorcist."
  • C. Jeffrey Dean
    Jeffrey Dean is a prominent American computer scientist and software engineer best known for his influential work on large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure at Google.
  • D. Thomas Haden Church
    Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
  • E. Joel Murray
    Joel Murray is an American actor and comedian known for his character roles in film and television, as well as for his voice work in animated projects.
  • 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: Christopher McDonald
Triple: [The Faculty, castMember, Christopher McDonald]
Generated description
Christopher McDonald is an American character actor best known for his frequent supporting roles in film and television, including his iconic turn as Shooter McGavin in the comedy "Happy Gilmore."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christopher McDonald
Target entity description: Christopher McDonald is an American character actor best known for his frequent supporting roles in film and television, including his iconic turn as Shooter McGavin in the comedy "Happy Gilmore."
  • A. Tim Mahoney
    Tim Mahoney is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band 311.
  • B. Jason Miller
    Jason Miller was an American actor and playwright best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Father Damien Karras in the classic horror film "The Exorcist."
  • C. Jeffrey Dean
    Jeffrey Dean is a prominent American computer scientist and software engineer best known for his influential work on large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure at Google.
  • D. Thomas Haden Church
    Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
  • E. Joel Murray
    Joel Murray is an American actor and comedian known for his character roles in film and television, as well as for his voice work in animated projects.
  • 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_69a88a1b678c8190bce986922ba60ce0 completed March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc6f8ff548190b07505310e2bf0b9 completed March 7, 2026, 6:34 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af1f7ac4c8819091132fa9cb265552 completed March 9, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af200e2db4819085851a45213edc89 completed March 9, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af208dfab081909d706aad8ff5f615 completed March 9, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:54 p.m.