Triple

T2459326
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming E54493 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Paul Ford
Paul Ford was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television, including his portrayal of blustery authority figures.
E268024 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: Paul Ford | Statement: [The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, starring, Paul Ford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Ford
Context triple: [The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, starring, Paul Ford]
  • A. David Ford
    David Ford is a Northern Irish politician and former leader of the Alliance Party who became the first person to serve as Northern Ireland’s Minister of Justice after the devolution of policing and justice powers.
  • B. Michael Ward
    Michael Ward was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television comedies.
  • C. Ben Shepherd
    Ben Shepherd is an American musician best known as the longtime bassist for the influential grunge band Soundgarden.
  • D. Steve Purcell
    Steve Purcell is an American cartoonist, animator, and filmmaker best known as the creator of the "Sam & Max" franchise and for his work at Pixar, including co-directing the film "Brave."
  • E. Michael Andrews
    Michael Andrews is an American film composer and musician known for his atmospheric scores for movies such as Donnie Darko and Bridesmaids.
  • 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: Paul Ford
Triple: [The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, starring, Paul Ford]
Generated description
Paul Ford was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television, including his portrayal of blustery authority figures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Ford
Target entity description: Paul Ford was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television, including his portrayal of blustery authority figures.
  • A. David Ford
    David Ford is a Northern Irish politician and former leader of the Alliance Party who became the first person to serve as Northern Ireland’s Minister of Justice after the devolution of policing and justice powers.
  • B. Michael Ward
    Michael Ward was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television comedies.
  • C. Ben Shepherd
    Ben Shepherd is an American musician best known as the longtime bassist for the influential grunge band Soundgarden.
  • D. Steve Purcell
    Steve Purcell is an American cartoonist, animator, and filmmaker best known as the creator of the "Sam & Max" franchise and for his work at Pixar, including co-directing the film "Brave."
  • E. Michael Andrews
    Michael Andrews is an American film composer and musician known for his atmospheric scores for movies such as Donnie Darko and Bridesmaids.
  • 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_69aef0cff4248190832f75ce36a357e2 completed March 9, 2026, 4:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aef186935c81909301659a96e1a4e2 completed March 9, 2026, 4:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aef8272668819084626e890a49e1b3 completed March 9, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.