Triple

T2458653
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hill Street Blues E54480 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Betty Thomas
Betty Thomas is an American actress and director best known for her Emmy-winning role on the television drama "Hill Street Blues" and for directing several successful comedy films.
E319598 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: Betty Thomas | Statement: [Hill Street Blues, castMember, Betty Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Betty Thomas
Context triple: [Hill Street Blues, castMember, Betty Thomas]
  • A. Betty Furness
    Betty Furness was an American actress and television personality best known for her film roles in the 1930s and later as a pioneering consumer affairs advocate on TV.
  • B. Edna Thompson
    Edna Thompson was the wife of legendary American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington.
  • C. Betty Bronson
    Betty Bronson was an American film actress best known for her roles in silent and early sound films, including her iconic portrayal of Peter Pan in the 1924 adaptation.
  • D. Betty Irene Whitaker
    Betty Irene Whitaker is the wife of Intel co-founder and philanthropist Gordon E. Moore and a partner in his philanthropic endeavors.
  • E. Betty Charity McCloskey
    Betty Charity McCloskey was the wife of American physicist and Nobel laureate Arthur H. Compton.
  • 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: Betty Thomas
Triple: [Hill Street Blues, castMember, Betty Thomas]
Generated description
Betty Thomas is an American actress and director best known for her Emmy-winning role on the television drama "Hill Street Blues" and for directing several successful comedy films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Betty Thomas
Target entity description: Betty Thomas is an American actress and director best known for her Emmy-winning role on the television drama "Hill Street Blues" and for directing several successful comedy films.
  • A. Betty Furness
    Betty Furness was an American actress and television personality best known for her film roles in the 1930s and later as a pioneering consumer affairs advocate on TV.
  • B. Edna Thompson
    Edna Thompson was the wife of legendary American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington.
  • C. Betty Bronson
    Betty Bronson was an American film actress best known for her roles in silent and early sound films, including her iconic portrayal of Peter Pan in the 1924 adaptation.
  • D. Betty Irene Whitaker
    Betty Irene Whitaker is the wife of Intel co-founder and philanthropist Gordon E. Moore and a partner in his philanthropic endeavors.
  • E. Betty Charity McCloskey
    Betty Charity McCloskey was the wife of American physicist and Nobel laureate Arthur H. Compton.
  • 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_69ab49dee84c819096b50a0049c347ac completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd10a35f88190b102a2cb5c88146e completed March 7, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b12ded5f9c8190a0de21b631d970b0 completed March 11, 2026, 8:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1316ee0708190bd27bb78f7f298d3 completed March 11, 2026, 9:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1d6729f848190a275638f074c1729 completed March 11, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.