Triple

T3407100
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Selina Meyer E71799 entity
Predicate hasStaffMember P36133 FINISHED
Object Ben Cafferty
Ben Cafferty is a cynical, sharp-tongued political operative and senior adviser to Selina Meyer on the television series "Veep."
 E422804 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: Ben Cafferty | Statement: [Selina Meyer, hasStaffMember, Ben Cafferty]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ben Cafferty
Context triple: [Selina Meyer, hasStaffMember, Ben Cafferty]
  • A. Ian Crafford
    Ian Crafford is a film editor best known for his work on the James Bond movie "Never Say Never Again."
  • B. Don McCafferty
    Don McCafferty was an American football coach best known for leading the Baltimore Colts to victory in Super Bowl V.
  • C. Ken Moffett
    Ken Moffett was a prominent American labor mediator and union negotiator best known for his key role in resolving major sports labor disputes, including those in Major League Baseball.
  • D. Ed McCauley
    Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
  • E. Kevin Cossom
    Kevin Cossom is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer known for his R&B and hip-hop collaborations and songwriting for major artists.
  • 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: Ben Cafferty
Triple: [Selina Meyer, hasStaffMember, Ben Cafferty]
Generated description
Ben Cafferty is a cynical, sharp-tongued political operative and senior adviser to Selina Meyer on the television series "Veep."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ben Cafferty
Target entity description: Ben Cafferty is a cynical, sharp-tongued political operative and senior adviser to Selina Meyer on the television series "Veep."
  • A. Ian Crafford
    Ian Crafford is a film editor best known for his work on the James Bond movie "Never Say Never Again."
  • B. Don McCafferty
    Don McCafferty was an American football coach best known for leading the Baltimore Colts to victory in Super Bowl V.
  • C. Ken Moffett
    Ken Moffett was a prominent American labor mediator and union negotiator best known for his key role in resolving major sports labor disputes, including those in Major League Baseball.
  • D. Ed McCauley
    Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
  • E. Kevin Cossom
    Kevin Cossom is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer known for his R&B and hip-hop collaborations and songwriting for major artists.
  • 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_69ad85ac312481909e7027ced1456a9f completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb8ede9c48190b13b0f5e7474e7fa completed March 8, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b595dfe0248190a9a45eca075d6eae completed March 14, 2026, 5:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b599becb488190bca466aa26b807a0 completed March 14, 2026, 5:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b59a1878c881908c404d25568bc6b7 completed March 14, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:15 p.m.