Triple

T2922835
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Witherspoon E78770 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object John Witherspoon (actor)
John Witherspoon (actor) was an American comedian and character actor best known for his roles in the "Friday" film series and the television show "The Wayans Bros."
 E309499 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: John Witherspoon (actor) | Statement: [Witherspoon, hasNotableBearer, John Witherspoon (actor)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Witherspoon (actor)
Context triple: [Witherspoon, hasNotableBearer, John Witherspoon (actor)]
  • A. John Ehle
    John Ehle was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his historical fiction set in the Appalachian region of North Carolina.
  • B. Brett Cullen
    Brett Cullen is an American actor known for his numerous film and television roles, including playing Thomas Wayne in the 2019 film "Joker."
  • C. Oliver Hudson
    Oliver Hudson is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "Rules of Engagement," "Nashville," and "Scream Queens."
  • D. Titus Welliver
    Titus Welliver is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Bosch" and "Deadwood," as well as numerous film and TV character roles.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: John Witherspoon (actor)
Triple: [Witherspoon, hasNotableBearer, John Witherspoon (actor)]
Generated description
John Witherspoon (actor) was an American comedian and character actor best known for his roles in the "Friday" film series and the television show "The Wayans Bros."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Witherspoon (actor)
Target entity description: John Witherspoon (actor) was an American comedian and character actor best known for his roles in the "Friday" film series and the television show "The Wayans Bros."
  • A. John Ehle
    John Ehle was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his historical fiction set in the Appalachian region of North Carolina.
  • B. Brett Cullen
    Brett Cullen is an American actor known for his numerous film and television roles, including playing Thomas Wayne in the 2019 film "Joker."
  • C. Oliver Hudson
    Oliver Hudson is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "Rules of Engagement," "Nashville," and "Scream Queens."
  • D. Titus Welliver
    Titus Welliver is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Bosch" and "Deadwood," as well as numerous film and TV character roles.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69ad8b0c2ad081909ff87050ae542bb9 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad97bd65ac81909a05ea2bade113d0 completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b056375b5c819081c7d4fd506cbf25 completed March 10, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b05f640afc8190bf9b5b90ff7c9b0e completed March 10, 2026, 6:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b06010c1948190a2e13084a79b106b completed March 10, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:54 p.m.