Triple

T2624794
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Madame Secretary E59091 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Geoffrey Arend
Geoffrey Arend is an American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including a prominent part on the political drama series "Madam Secretary."
E303048 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: Geoffrey Arend | Statement: [Madame Secretary, starring, Geoffrey Arend]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Geoffrey Arend
Context triple: [Madame Secretary, starring, Geoffrey Arend]
  • A. Thomas Blatt
    Thomas Blatt was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and speaker best known for his escape from the Sobibor extermination camp and his later efforts to document its history.
  • B. Melvin Fitting
    Melvin Fitting is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential work in automated theorem proving, modal logic, and the foundations of logic in computer science.
  • C. Warren Hellman
    Warren Hellman was an American financier, private equity pioneer, and philanthropist best known for co-founding the investment firm Hellman & Friedman and for funding major cultural and civic initiatives, including San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival.
  • D. Roy R. Neuberger
    Roy R. Neuberger was an American financier, philanthropist, and prominent modern art collector who played a key role in supporting and promoting 20th-century artists.
  • E. Howard E. Tatel
    Howard E. Tatel was an American radio astronomer after whom the 85-foot Howard E. Tatel Radio Telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory was named.
  • 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: Geoffrey Arend
Triple: [Madame Secretary, starring, Geoffrey Arend]
Generated description
Geoffrey Arend is an American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including a prominent part on the political drama series "Madam Secretary."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Geoffrey Arend
Target entity description: Geoffrey Arend is an American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including a prominent part on the political drama series "Madam Secretary."
  • A. Thomas Blatt
    Thomas Blatt was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and speaker best known for his escape from the Sobibor extermination camp and his later efforts to document its history.
  • B. Melvin Fitting
    Melvin Fitting is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential work in automated theorem proving, modal logic, and the foundations of logic in computer science.
  • C. Warren Hellman
    Warren Hellman was an American financier, private equity pioneer, and philanthropist best known for co-founding the investment firm Hellman & Friedman and for funding major cultural and civic initiatives, including San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival.
  • D. Roy R. Neuberger
    Roy R. Neuberger was an American financier, philanthropist, and prominent modern art collector who played a key role in supporting and promoting 20th-century artists.
  • E. Howard E. Tatel
    Howard E. Tatel was an American radio astronomer after whom the 85-foot Howard E. Tatel Radio Telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory was named.
  • 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_69ab4ac558388190962492cd2e1b0ce6 completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd8b061a08190b7a8459851abaae2 completed March 7, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afe88781ec8190a13784501208c5a5 completed March 10, 2026, 9:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afebdb8ec8819099878d0a61857efb completed March 10, 2026, 10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0039dd22881909a90070a3d490df1 completed March 10, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.