Triple

T500447
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ellen DeGeneres E10386 entity
Predicate hasSibling P363 FINISHED
Object Vance DeGeneres
Vance DeGeneres is an American actor, comedian, musician, and producer known for his work on television and as the brother of Ellen DeGeneres.
E63863 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: Vance DeGeneres | Statement: [Ellen DeGeneres, hasSibling, Vance DeGeneres]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vance DeGeneres
Context triple: [Ellen DeGeneres, hasSibling, Vance DeGeneres]
  • A. Ellen DeGeneres
    Ellen DeGeneres is an American comedian, actress, and television host best known for her groundbreaking sitcom "Ellen" and her long-running daytime talk show "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
  • B. Ginny Newhart
    Ginny Newhart was an American homemaker and the longtime wife of comedian and actor Bob Newhart, known for her behind-the-scenes influence on his career and for inspiring key ideas in his television work.
  • C. Debi Mazar
    Debi Mazar is an American actress known for her sharp-tongued, tough-chic roles in films and television series such as "Goodfellas," "Entourage," and "Younger."
  • D. Steve Ross
    Steve Ross was an American businessman best known for building Warner Communications into a media powerhouse and serving as a key architect of what became Time Warner.
  • E. Jerry Baldwin
    Jerry Baldwin is an American entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the Starbucks coffee company.
  • 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: Vance DeGeneres
Triple: [Ellen DeGeneres, hasSibling, Vance DeGeneres]
Generated description
Vance DeGeneres is an American actor, comedian, musician, and producer known for his work on television and as the brother of Ellen DeGeneres.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vance DeGeneres
Target entity description: Vance DeGeneres is an American actor, comedian, musician, and producer known for his work on television and as the brother of Ellen DeGeneres.
  • A. Ellen DeGeneres
    Ellen DeGeneres is an American comedian, actress, and television host best known for her groundbreaking sitcom "Ellen" and her long-running daytime talk show "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
  • B. Ginny Newhart
    Ginny Newhart was an American homemaker and the longtime wife of comedian and actor Bob Newhart, known for her behind-the-scenes influence on his career and for inspiring key ideas in his television work.
  • C. Debi Mazar
    Debi Mazar is an American actress known for her sharp-tongued, tough-chic roles in films and television series such as "Goodfellas," "Entourage," and "Younger."
  • D. Steve Ross
    Steve Ross was an American businessman best known for building Warner Communications into a media powerhouse and serving as a key architect of what became Time Warner.
  • E. Jerry Baldwin
    Jerry Baldwin is an American entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the Starbucks coffee company.
  • 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_69a2e847df8481909239ec08ccf1e376 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f13096248190a622a58dcf540b00 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a49eb990308190a3306f5408eec850 completed March 1, 2026, 8:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a49f60529481908b68c2fdb6120641 completed March 1, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4a01e54f08190be389a351aa131f0 completed March 1, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.