Triple

T3621993
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Wedding E76746 entity
Predicate hasCastMember P2308 FINISHED
Object Howard Hesseman
Howard Hesseman was an American actor and comedian best known for his role as DJ Dr. Johnny Fever on the television sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati."
E380943 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: Howard Hesseman | Statement: [A Wedding, hasCastMember, Howard Hesseman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Hesseman
Context triple: [A Wedding, hasCastMember, Howard Hesseman]
  • A. Kurtwood Smith
    Kurtwood Smith is an American character actor best known for playing the strict father Red Forman on the sitcom "That '70s Show" and for roles in films like "RoboCop."
  • B. Timothy Newhart
    Timothy Newhart is one of the children of American television personality and producer Ginny Newhart and comedian-actor Bob Newhart.
  • C. Ronny Cox
    Ronny Cox is an American actor and musician best known for his roles in films such as "Deliverance," "RoboCop," and "Total Recall," often portraying authoritative or villainous characters.
  • D. Bob Crane
    Bob Crane was an American actor and disc jockey best known for starring as Colonel Hogan in the 1960s television sitcom "Hogan's Heroes."
  • E. Dennis Morgan
    Dennis Morgan was an American film actor and singer best known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood musicals and dramas of the 1940s.
  • 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: Howard Hesseman
Triple: [A Wedding, hasCastMember, Howard Hesseman]
Generated description
Howard Hesseman was an American actor and comedian best known for his role as DJ Dr. Johnny Fever on the television sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Hesseman
Target entity description: Howard Hesseman was an American actor and comedian best known for his role as DJ Dr. Johnny Fever on the television sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati."
  • A. Kurtwood Smith
    Kurtwood Smith is an American character actor best known for playing the strict father Red Forman on the sitcom "That '70s Show" and for roles in films like "RoboCop."
  • B. Timothy Newhart
    Timothy Newhart is one of the children of American television personality and producer Ginny Newhart and comedian-actor Bob Newhart.
  • C. Ronny Cox
    Ronny Cox is an American actor and musician best known for his roles in films such as "Deliverance," "RoboCop," and "Total Recall," often portraying authoritative or villainous characters.
  • D. Bob Crane
    Bob Crane was an American actor and disc jockey best known for starring as Colonel Hogan in the 1960s television sitcom "Hogan's Heroes."
  • E. Dennis Morgan
    Dennis Morgan was an American film actor and singer best known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood musicals and dramas of the 1940s.
  • 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_69ad85dae2fc81908d1ceadbc6af0089 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc2bb12cc8190bd67597cf3b66a3a completed March 8, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4c3852e60819092db2992e945a4c7 completed March 14, 2026, 2:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4c7f0fe1c8190b66e3fcecfae3f6e completed March 14, 2026, 2:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4c840713c81908e3d565d663e04d5 completed March 14, 2026, 2:30 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:23 p.m.