Triple

T3030338
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wilford Brimley E82878 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Anthony Wilford Brimley
Anthony Wilford Brimley was an American character actor known for his gruff warmth and roles in films like "Cocoon," "The Natural," and "The Thing," as well as for his television commercials and advocacy work.
 E372507 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: Anthony Wilford Brimley | Statement: [Wilford Brimley, birthName, Anthony Wilford Brimley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Anthony Wilford Brimley
Context triple: [Wilford Brimley, birthName, Anthony Wilford Brimley]
  • A. Robert Calvin Bland
    Robert Calvin Bland was an influential American blues and soul singer known for his smooth vocal style and a string of hits in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • B. Charles Neblett
    Charles Neblett is an American civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and advance the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
  • C. David M. Barkley
    David M. Barkley was the son of U.S. Vice President Alben W. Barkley and a member of the prominent Barkley political family.
  • D. Leon Barmore
    Leon Barmore is a legendary women's college basketball coach best known for leading the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters to national prominence and multiple NCAA championships.
  • E. Cal Henderson
    Cal Henderson is a British software engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CTO of the workplace communication platform Slack.
  • 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: Anthony Wilford Brimley
Triple: [Wilford Brimley, birthName, Anthony Wilford Brimley]
Generated description
Anthony Wilford Brimley was an American character actor known for his gruff warmth and roles in films like "Cocoon," "The Natural," and "The Thing," as well as for his television commercials and advocacy work.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Anthony Wilford Brimley
Target entity description: Anthony Wilford Brimley was an American character actor known for his gruff warmth and roles in films like "Cocoon," "The Natural," and "The Thing," as well as for his television commercials and advocacy work.
  • A. Robert Calvin Bland
    Robert Calvin Bland was an influential American blues and soul singer known for his smooth vocal style and a string of hits in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • B. Charles Neblett
    Charles Neblett is an American civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and advance the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
  • C. David M. Barkley
    David M. Barkley was the son of U.S. Vice President Alben W. Barkley and a member of the prominent Barkley political family.
  • D. Leon Barmore
    Leon Barmore is a legendary women's college basketball coach best known for leading the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters to national prominence and multiple NCAA championships.
  • E. Cal Henderson
    Cal Henderson is a British software engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CTO of the workplace communication platform Slack.
  • 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_69ad8b21a62881908ec5dd4fba4a187c completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9aecd384819085d15f701add7c44 completed March 8, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b432e95eb48190b51692cfbd7b22a6 completed March 13, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4344499148190a116c39c45fb636f completed March 13, 2026, 3:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b434abc9848190924cc8ceff2a0220 completed March 13, 2026, 4 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:01 p.m.