Triple

T5188211
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject All That Jazz E117083 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Ben Vereen
Ben Vereen is an American actor, singer, and dancer renowned for his work on Broadway and in film and television, particularly in musical and dramatic roles.
 E502121 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: Ben Vereen | Statement: [All That Jazz, castMember, Ben Vereen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ben Vereen
Context triple: [All That Jazz, castMember, Ben Vereen]
  • A. Jeffrey Jones
    Jeffrey Jones is an American character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Beetlejuice," and "Amadeus."
  • B. Stephen McKinley Henderson
    Stephen McKinley Henderson is an American character actor known for his acclaimed work in film, television, and theater, including a supporting role in the 2021 adaptation of "Dune."
  • C. Louis Gossett Jr.
    Louis Gossett Jr. was an acclaimed American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role in the miniseries "Roots" and his Oscar-winning performance in "An Officer and a Gentleman."
  • D. John Amos
    John Amos is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Good Times" and the miniseries "Roots."
  • E. Eric Warner
    Eric Warner is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the common surname Warner, with no widely recognized public achievements or roles documented.
  • 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: Ben Vereen
Triple: [All That Jazz, castMember, Ben Vereen]
Generated description
Ben Vereen is an American actor, singer, and dancer renowned for his work on Broadway and in film and television, particularly in musical and dramatic roles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ben Vereen
Target entity description: Ben Vereen is an American actor, singer, and dancer renowned for his work on Broadway and in film and television, particularly in musical and dramatic roles.
  • A. Jeffrey Jones
    Jeffrey Jones is an American character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Beetlejuice," and "Amadeus."
  • B. Stephen McKinley Henderson
    Stephen McKinley Henderson is an American character actor known for his acclaimed work in film, television, and theater, including a supporting role in the 2021 adaptation of "Dune."
  • C. Louis Gossett Jr.
    Louis Gossett Jr. was an acclaimed American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role in the miniseries "Roots" and his Oscar-winning performance in "An Officer and a Gentleman."
  • D. John Amos
    John Amos is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Good Times" and the miniseries "Roots."
  • E. Eric Warner
    Eric Warner is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the common surname Warner, with no widely recognized public achievements or roles documented.
  • 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_69bd44620ff48190bcac01782107a397 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd79c56280819085926316f7b520bc completed March 20, 2026, 4:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bee08af954819080dbe7ea1ac6ddb0 completed March 21, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bee5fc0c408190b4ad4b77e0045182 completed March 21, 2026, 6:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bee6b954c08190a353ebcfe829888a completed March 21, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:46 p.m.