Triple

T3121209
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ted Levine E65187 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Frank Theodore Levine
Frank Theodore Levine is an American character actor best known for his chilling portrayal of serial killer Buffalo Bill in the film "The Silence of the Lambs."
 E331388 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: Frank Theodore Levine | Statement: [Ted Levine, birthName, Frank Theodore Levine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Frank Theodore Levine
Context triple: [Ted Levine, birthName, Frank Theodore Levine]
  • A. Raphael Levine
    Raphael Levine is an Israeli physical chemist renowned for his pioneering work in molecular reaction dynamics and quantum chemistry.
  • B. Leonard Albert Kravitz
    Leonard Albert Kravitz is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor known for his fusion of rock, soul, funk, and psychedelic influences.
  • C. Louis Levy
    Louis Levy was a prominent British film music director and composer known for his influential work on early 20th-century cinema scores.
  • D. Myron Futterman
    Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
  • E. Leon Feldhendler
    Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
  • 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: Frank Theodore Levine
Triple: [Ted Levine, birthName, Frank Theodore Levine]
Generated description
Frank Theodore Levine is an American character actor best known for his chilling portrayal of serial killer Buffalo Bill in the film "The Silence of the Lambs."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Frank Theodore Levine
Target entity description: Frank Theodore Levine is an American character actor best known for his chilling portrayal of serial killer Buffalo Bill in the film "The Silence of the Lambs."
  • A. Raphael Levine
    Raphael Levine is an Israeli physical chemist renowned for his pioneering work in molecular reaction dynamics and quantum chemistry.
  • B. Leonard Albert Kravitz
    Leonard Albert Kravitz is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor known for his fusion of rock, soul, funk, and psychedelic influences.
  • C. Louis Levy
    Louis Levy was a prominent British film music director and composer known for his influential work on early 20th-century cinema scores.
  • D. Myron Futterman
    Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
  • E. Leon Feldhendler
    Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
  • 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_69ad857fcc088190b0c4d45a5cde6f61 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada5295cd481908d52e165538c67fa completed March 8, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b224cf54088190a069b4eef0a5f7d2 completed March 12, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2264c32b0819082fce40dfc8e5b88 completed March 12, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b226bb6ebc81908c56a6fd8c2e536b completed March 12, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:04 p.m.