Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Front Page (2016 Broadway revival) E83586 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Walter Burns
Walter Burns is the fast-talking, manipulative newspaper editor at the center of the classic newsroom comedy "The Front Page."
E322296 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: Walter Burns | Statement: [The Front Page (2016 Broadway revival), character, Walter Burns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Burns
Context triple: [The Front Page (2016 Broadway revival), character, Walter Burns]
  • A. Tim Wentworth
    Tim Wentworth is an American business executive known for leading major healthcare and pharmacy-related companies, including serving as CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance.
  • B. Charles Ewing
    Charles Ewing was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and later a federal official, known as a prominent member of the influential Ewing family.
  • C. Charles Belcher
    Charles Belcher was an American character actor of the silent film era, known for supporting roles in early 20th-century Hollywood productions.
  • D. Basil March
    Basil March is the central character in William Dean Howells's novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," a reflective, middle-class editor whose experiences illuminate the social and cultural tensions of late 19th-century New York City.
  • E. Walter Brewster
    Walter Brewster was a prominent local landowner and early settler after whom the Village of Brewster in New York 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: Walter Burns
Triple: [The Front Page (2016 Broadway revival), character, Walter Burns]
Generated description
Walter Burns is the fast-talking, manipulative newspaper editor at the center of the classic newsroom comedy "The Front Page."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Burns
Target entity description: Walter Burns is the fast-talking, manipulative newspaper editor at the center of the classic newsroom comedy "The Front Page."
  • A. Tim Wentworth
    Tim Wentworth is an American business executive known for leading major healthcare and pharmacy-related companies, including serving as CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance.
  • B. Charles Ewing
    Charles Ewing was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and later a federal official, known as a prominent member of the influential Ewing family.
  • C. Charles Belcher
    Charles Belcher was an American character actor of the silent film era, known for supporting roles in early 20th-century Hollywood productions.
  • D. Basil March
    Basil March is the central character in William Dean Howells's novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," a reflective, middle-class editor whose experiences illuminate the social and cultural tensions of late 19th-century New York City.
  • E. Walter Brewster
    Walter Brewster was a prominent local landowner and early settler after whom the Village of Brewster in New York 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_69ad8b24924c8190a9bb6f61d519e4ae completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9bf274f88190a759f9ce3da47c35 completed March 8, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1eefd3860819085cefea633b5dca9 completed March 11, 2026, 10:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1efa8c11081908661b33e465e11bc completed March 11, 2026, 10:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1f05e44e08190be8b194938b6c1c7 completed March 11, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:01 p.m.