Triple

T3858967
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Funny People E90087 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object George Simmons
George Simmons is a successful but lonely stand-up comedian and film star who confronts his mortality and personal relationships in the comedy-drama film "Funny People."
E394525 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: George Simmons | Statement: [Funny People, mainCharacter, George Simmons]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Simmons
Context triple: [Funny People, mainCharacter, George Simmons]
  • A. John Simmons
    John Simmons was a 19th-century American clothing manufacturer and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of Simmons University in Boston.
  • B. Al Simmons
    Al Simmons was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball outfielder best known as a star hitter for the Philadelphia Athletics during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
  • C. David Simas
    David Simas is an American political strategist and former Obama White House official who serves as a top executive leader at the Obama Foundation.
  • D. Richard Somers
    Richard Somers was a United States Navy officer and early American naval hero of the First Barbary War, remembered for his leadership and death during a daring 1804 explosion-ship mission at Tripoli.
  • E. Warren Simmons
    Warren Simmons is an American real estate developer best known for creating San Francisco’s popular waterfront attraction Pier 39.
  • 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: George Simmons
Triple: [Funny People, mainCharacter, George Simmons]
Generated description
George Simmons is a successful but lonely stand-up comedian and film star who confronts his mortality and personal relationships in the comedy-drama film "Funny People."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Simmons
Target entity description: George Simmons is a successful but lonely stand-up comedian and film star who confronts his mortality and personal relationships in the comedy-drama film "Funny People."
  • A. John Simmons
    John Simmons was a 19th-century American clothing manufacturer and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of Simmons University in Boston.
  • B. Al Simmons
    Al Simmons was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball outfielder best known as a star hitter for the Philadelphia Athletics during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
  • C. David Simas
    David Simas is an American political strategist and former Obama White House official who serves as a top executive leader at the Obama Foundation.
  • D. Richard Somers
    Richard Somers was a United States Navy officer and early American naval hero of the First Barbary War, remembered for his leadership and death during a daring 1804 explosion-ship mission at Tripoli.
  • E. Warren Simmons
    Warren Simmons is an American real estate developer best known for creating San Francisco’s popular waterfront attraction Pier 39.
  • 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_69aed95b3c088190a8f85d19e6070599 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeec1ff39c8190b83a88abd840a0e3 completed March 9, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b512348fe88190b5ae942809732b76 completed March 14, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b513013db481908f8fb5f56470c0d0 completed March 14, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5137200a08190bd2a78398e03803e completed March 14, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:19 p.m.