Triple

T4567599
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject No Time for Sergeants (film) E121946 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Howard Smith
Howard Smith was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying gruff authority figures.
E454315 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 Smith | Statement: [No Time for Sergeants (film), starring, Howard Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Smith
Context triple: [No Time for Sergeants (film), starring, Howard Smith]
  • A. Howard Dwight Smith
    Howard Dwight Smith was an American architect best known for designing Ohio Stadium at Ohio State University.
  • B. Pat Hume
    Pat Hume was an Irish political activist and community worker best known for her vital behind-the-scenes role in supporting the peace process in Northern Ireland alongside her husband, SDLP leader and Nobel laureate John Hume.
  • C. Bob Hughes
    Bob Hughes is a long-running central character on the American soap opera "As the World Turns," known for his role as a dedicated doctor and family patriarch in the fictional town of Oakdale.
  • D. Jim Smith
    Jim Smith was an English football manager best known for his influential spell in charge of Derby County and a long career managing numerous clubs in the English leagues.
  • E. Douglas Guilfoyle
    Douglas Guilfoyle is an international law scholar known for his work on the law of the sea, maritime security, and international criminal law.
  • 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 Smith
Triple: [No Time for Sergeants (film), starring, Howard Smith]
Generated description
Howard Smith was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying gruff authority figures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Smith
Target entity description: Howard Smith was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying gruff authority figures.
  • A. Howard Dwight Smith
    Howard Dwight Smith was an American architect best known for designing Ohio Stadium at Ohio State University.
  • B. Pat Hume
    Pat Hume was an Irish political activist and community worker best known for her vital behind-the-scenes role in supporting the peace process in Northern Ireland alongside her husband, SDLP leader and Nobel laureate John Hume.
  • C. Bob Hughes
    Bob Hughes is a long-running central character on the American soap opera "As the World Turns," known for his role as a dedicated doctor and family patriarch in the fictional town of Oakdale.
  • D. Jim Smith
    Jim Smith was an English football manager best known for his influential spell in charge of Derby County and a long career managing numerous clubs in the English leagues.
  • E. Douglas Guilfoyle
    Douglas Guilfoyle is an international law scholar known for his work on the law of the sea, maritime security, and international criminal law.
  • 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_69bd463f156881908a99aca69c5721ac completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd589faccc8190ac0354644099810d completed March 20, 2026, 2:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdd3bf54448190a7e65cee1a5c48e3 completed March 20, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdd9d583248190ab8e3d5b9b34bd0f completed March 20, 2026, 11:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdda765f18819088cacca8fae77084 completed March 20, 2026, 11:38 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:09 p.m.