Triple

T3567087
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ted Danson E75475 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Edward Bridge Danson III
Edward Bridge Danson III, better known as Ted Danson, is an American actor and producer renowned for his Emmy-winning role as bartender Sam Malone on the sitcom "Cheers" and numerous other film and television performances.
E369757 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: Edward Bridge Danson III | Statement: [Ted Danson, birthName, Edward Bridge Danson III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Bridge Danson III
Context triple: [Ted Danson, birthName, Edward Bridge Danson III]
  • A. James Durkan
    James Durkan is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the Durkan surname.
  • B. David Durkan
    David Durkan is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Durkan, though specific widely known public details about him are not clearly established.
  • C. Michael Dorsey
    Michael Dorsey is the struggling, perfectionist New York actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a soap-opera role in the 1982 film "Tootsie."
  • D. Derek Bryceson
    Derek Bryceson was a British-born Tanzanian politician and conservationist who served as director of Tanzania’s national parks and played a key role in supporting Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research.
  • E. John Dunlavy
    John Dunlavy was an early 19th-century American religious leader and writer involved in the dissolution of the Springfield Presbytery and later known for his association with the Shaker movement.
  • 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: Edward Bridge Danson III
Triple: [Ted Danson, birthName, Edward Bridge Danson III]
Generated description
Edward Bridge Danson III, better known as Ted Danson, is an American actor and producer renowned for his Emmy-winning role as bartender Sam Malone on the sitcom "Cheers" and numerous other film and television performances.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Bridge Danson III
Target entity description: Edward Bridge Danson III, better known as Ted Danson, is an American actor and producer renowned for his Emmy-winning role as bartender Sam Malone on the sitcom "Cheers" and numerous other film and television performances.
  • A. James Durkan
    James Durkan is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the Durkan surname.
  • B. David Durkan
    David Durkan is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Durkan, though specific widely known public details about him are not clearly established.
  • C. Michael Dorsey
    Michael Dorsey is the struggling, perfectionist New York actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a soap-opera role in the 1982 film "Tootsie."
  • D. Derek Bryceson
    Derek Bryceson was a British-born Tanzanian politician and conservationist who served as director of Tanzania’s national parks and played a key role in supporting Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research.
  • E. John Dunlavy
    John Dunlavy was an early 19th-century American religious leader and writer involved in the dissolution of the Springfield Presbytery and later known for his association with the Shaker movement.
  • 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_69ad85d512708190829c8b2d3a2ccfb8 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc0aa0fcc8190bc99df68d2bd9139 completed March 8, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3bbb01d108190bd098c86b0180b78 completed March 13, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3bc2f3c1c8190906e34e8c70287cb completed March 13, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3f5b2fdcc8190842d2d7bd09c65c4 completed March 13, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:21 p.m.