Triple

T505464
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film) E10493 entity
Predicate starred P5563 FINISHED
Object Barton MacLane
Barton MacLane was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Hollywood films and later for his work in early television.
E188855 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: Barton MacLane | Statement: [The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film), starred, Barton MacLane]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barton MacLane
Context triple: [The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film), starred, Barton MacLane]
  • A. Johnston McCulley
    Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
  • B. Roger E. Broggie
    Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
  • C. Richard Stolley
    Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
  • D. Roger D. Lapham
    Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
  • E. David Scearce
    David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
  • 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: Barton MacLane
Triple: [The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film), starred, Barton MacLane]
Generated description
Barton MacLane was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Hollywood films and later for his work in early television.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barton MacLane
Target entity description: Barton MacLane was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Hollywood films and later for his work in early television.
  • A. Johnston McCulley
    Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
  • B. Roger E. Broggie
    Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
  • C. Richard Stolley
    Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
  • D. Roger D. Lapham
    Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
  • E. David Scearce
    David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
  • 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_69a2e848adf881908e5e04f7af030093 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f14b2acc8190818e8a53eac69c54 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad717a95848190964e7cf1be92ad67 completed March 8, 2026, 12:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad72016c3c8190ac3bd11bab59fdf0 completed March 8, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad7277b5f081908a8af047032aa15a completed March 8, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.