Triple

T3197291
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject St. Elsewhere E66963 entity
Predicate leadActor P1507 FINISHED
Object Howie Mandel
Howie Mandel is a Canadian comedian, actor, and television host best known for his stand-up comedy, his role on the medical drama "St. Elsewhere," and hosting the game show "Deal or No Deal."
 E336735 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: Howie Mandel | Statement: [St. Elsewhere, leadActor, Howie Mandel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howie Mandel
Context triple: [St. Elsewhere, leadActor, Howie Mandel]
  • A. Drew Carey
    Drew Carey is an American comedian, actor, and game show host best known for "The Drew Carey Show" and hosting "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and "The Price Is Right."
  • B. Lee Mack
    Lee Mack is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and writer best known for his quick-fire wit and starring role in the sitcom "Not Going Out."
  • C. Wayne Brady
    Wayne Brady is an American actor, comedian, singer, and television personality best known for his improvisational work on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and hosting "Let's Make a Deal."
  • D. Jim Gaffigan
    Jim Gaffigan is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his observational, family-friendly humor and roles in both film and television.
  • E. Mark Leno
    Mark Leno is an American Democratic politician and former California state legislator known for representing San Francisco in both the State Assembly and State Senate.
  • 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: Howie Mandel
Triple: [St. Elsewhere, leadActor, Howie Mandel]
Generated description
Howie Mandel is a Canadian comedian, actor, and television host best known for his stand-up comedy, his role on the medical drama "St. Elsewhere," and hosting the game show "Deal or No Deal."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howie Mandel
Target entity description: Howie Mandel is a Canadian comedian, actor, and television host best known for his stand-up comedy, his role on the medical drama "St. Elsewhere," and hosting the game show "Deal or No Deal."
  • A. Drew Carey
    Drew Carey is an American comedian, actor, and game show host best known for "The Drew Carey Show" and hosting "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and "The Price Is Right."
  • B. Lee Mack
    Lee Mack is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and writer best known for his quick-fire wit and starring role in the sitcom "Not Going Out."
  • C. Wayne Brady
    Wayne Brady is an American actor, comedian, singer, and television personality best known for his improvisational work on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and hosting "Let's Make a Deal."
  • D. Jim Gaffigan
    Jim Gaffigan is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his observational, family-friendly humor and roles in both film and television.
  • E. Mark Leno
    Mark Leno is an American Democratic politician and former California state legislator known for representing San Francisco in both the State Assembly and State Senate.
  • 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_69ad8588ba18819086a10951c32ecb80 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada7192994819084817307065a25e2 completed March 8, 2026, 4:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b24bb7cd488190ae95c140d9cda296 completed March 12, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b24d39e77c8190818f71a3298852d7 completed March 12, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b25178f3c08190be78bdbd0cdfc5f3 completed March 12, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:07 p.m.