Triple

T4559301
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sports Night E120553 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Robert Guillaume
Robert Guillaume was an Emmy-winning American actor best known for his roles on the television series "Soap" and its spin-off "Benson," as well as voicing Rafiki in Disney's "The Lion King."
 E452222 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: Robert Guillaume | Statement: [Sports Night, portrayedBy, Robert Guillaume]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert Guillaume
Context triple: [Sports Night, portrayedBy, Robert Guillaume]
  • A. Roger Devereau
    Roger Devereau is the central protagonist of the comedy-thriller film "Silver Streak," around whom the movie’s train-bound mystery and adventure revolve.
  • B. Franck Leroy
    Franck Leroy is a French politician known for serving as the mayor of Épernay, a commune in the Marne department of northeastern France.
  • C. Russell Dupuis
    Russell Dupuis is an American electrical engineer and materials scientist renowned for his pioneering work in metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) and the development of semiconductor lasers and LEDs.
  • D. Stephen Rochon
    Stephen Rochon is a retired U.S. Coast Guard rear admiral who became the first African American to serve as White House Chief Usher, overseeing operations and staff at the Executive Residence.
  • E. James Roche Verling
    James Roche Verling was an Irish army surgeon best known for serving as one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s personal physicians during his exile on Saint Helena.
  • 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: Robert Guillaume
Triple: [Sports Night, portrayedBy, Robert Guillaume]
Generated description
Robert Guillaume was an Emmy-winning American actor best known for his roles on the television series "Soap" and its spin-off "Benson," as well as voicing Rafiki in Disney's "The Lion King."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert Guillaume
Target entity description: Robert Guillaume was an Emmy-winning American actor best known for his roles on the television series "Soap" and its spin-off "Benson," as well as voicing Rafiki in Disney's "The Lion King."
  • A. Roger Devereau
    Roger Devereau is the central protagonist of the comedy-thriller film "Silver Streak," around whom the movie’s train-bound mystery and adventure revolve.
  • B. Franck Leroy
    Franck Leroy is a French politician known for serving as the mayor of Épernay, a commune in the Marne department of northeastern France.
  • C. Russell Dupuis
    Russell Dupuis is an American electrical engineer and materials scientist renowned for his pioneering work in metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) and the development of semiconductor lasers and LEDs.
  • D. Stephen Rochon
    Stephen Rochon is a retired U.S. Coast Guard rear admiral who became the first African American to serve as White House Chief Usher, overseeing operations and staff at the Executive Residence.
  • E. James Roche Verling
    James Roche Verling was an Irish army surgeon best known for serving as one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s personal physicians during his exile on Saint Helena.
  • 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_69bd4636f1648190a701445c2fcd9c17 completed March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5829cc34819086ad2ae58446502e completed March 20, 2026, 2:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdc593eaf881908a9043366230b391 completed March 20, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdc5f0b52c8190bbfa2a6a22d56725 completed March 20, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdc63b1e0881908f861f7c9c5ce3ac completed March 20, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:09 p.m.