Triple

T3059754
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Music Man E60567 entity
Predicate originalBroadwayLeadActor P4737 FINISHED
Object Robert Preston
Robert Preston was an American actor best known for his Tony- and later film-winning portrayal of con man-turned-bandleader Harold Hill in "The Music Man."
E348327 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: Robert Preston | Statement: [The Music Man, originalBroadwayLeadActor, Robert Preston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Preston
Context triple: [The Music Man, originalBroadwayLeadActor, Robert Preston]
  • A. Buddy Ebsen
    Buddy Ebsen was an American actor and dancer best known for his roles in the television series "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Barnaby Jones."
  • B. Tom Bosley
    Tom Bosley was an American actor best known for playing the warm, paternal Howard Cunningham on the classic television sitcom "Happy Days."
  • C. Lloyd Richards
    Lloyd Richards is a character in the classic film and play "All About Eve," depicted as a talented and ambitious playwright closely involved in the theatrical world surrounding Margo Channing.
  • D. Eddie Albert
    Eddie Albert was an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, particularly the sitcom "Green Acres" and numerous classic Hollywood movies.
  • E. Gary Merrill
    Gary Merrill was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, particularly in mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
  • 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: Robert Preston
Triple: [The Music Man, originalBroadwayLeadActor, Robert Preston]
Generated description
Robert Preston was an American actor best known for his Tony- and later film-winning portrayal of con man-turned-bandleader Harold Hill in "The Music Man."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Preston
Target entity description: Robert Preston was an American actor best known for his Tony- and later film-winning portrayal of con man-turned-bandleader Harold Hill in "The Music Man."
  • A. Buddy Ebsen
    Buddy Ebsen was an American actor and dancer best known for his roles in the television series "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Barnaby Jones."
  • B. Tom Bosley
    Tom Bosley was an American actor best known for playing the warm, paternal Howard Cunningham on the classic television sitcom "Happy Days."
  • C. Lloyd Richards
    Lloyd Richards is a character in the classic film and play "All About Eve," depicted as a talented and ambitious playwright closely involved in the theatrical world surrounding Margo Channing.
  • D. Eddie Albert
    Eddie Albert was an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, particularly the sitcom "Green Acres" and numerous classic Hollywood movies.
  • E. Gary Merrill
    Gary Merrill was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, particularly in mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
  • 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_69ad8578137c81908259dcb27c7d6d7c completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9e9cf9188190b43f50edc009030d completed March 8, 2026, 4:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b31a4b98288190b2f4f8360eaecfc6 completed March 12, 2026, 7:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b31c33fc3c8190b5af3f38206736de completed March 12, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b31c9f48788190bdf4b4ce47e1e5b5 completed March 12, 2026, 8:05 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:02 p.m.