Triple

T5286577
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 1776 (film) E119632 entity
Predicate leadActor P1507 FINISHED
Object Ken Howard
Ken Howard was an American actor best known for his roles in film, television, and theater, including his portrayal of Thomas Jefferson in the musical film "1776."
E536638 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: Ken Howard | Statement: [1776 (film), leadActor, Ken Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ken Howard
Context triple: [1776 (film), leadActor, Ken Howard]
  • A. Donald Howard
    Donald Howard was a British politician best known for serving on the controversial Simon Commission that investigated constitutional reform in colonial India.
  • B. Peter Howard
    Peter Howard was a prominent American musical theatre orchestrator and dance music arranger known for his work on numerous Broadway productions.
  • C. Jim Hutton
    Jim Hutton was an Irish hairdresser best known as the long-term partner of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury during the final years of Mercury’s life.
  • D. Jim Hutton
    Jim Hutton was an American actor best known for his lanky, affable screen presence in 1960s comedies and for playing the title role in the TV series "Ellery Queen."
  • E. Alan Howarth
    Alan Howarth is an American composer and sound designer best known for co-creating and expanding the iconic synthesizer-driven scores of many John Carpenter horror and science fiction films.
  • 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: Ken Howard
Triple: [1776 (film), leadActor, Ken Howard]
Generated description
Ken Howard was an American actor best known for his roles in film, television, and theater, including his portrayal of Thomas Jefferson in the musical film "1776."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ken Howard
Target entity description: Ken Howard was an American actor best known for his roles in film, television, and theater, including his portrayal of Thomas Jefferson in the musical film "1776."
  • A. Donald Howard
    Donald Howard was a British politician best known for serving on the controversial Simon Commission that investigated constitutional reform in colonial India.
  • B. Peter Howard
    Peter Howard was a prominent American musical theatre orchestrator and dance music arranger known for his work on numerous Broadway productions.
  • C. Jim Hutton
    Jim Hutton was an Irish hairdresser best known as the long-term partner of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury during the final years of Mercury’s life.
  • D. Jim Hutton
    Jim Hutton was an American actor best known for his lanky, affable screen presence in 1960s comedies and for playing the title role in the TV series "Ellery Queen."
  • E. Alan Howarth
    Alan Howarth is an American composer and sound designer best known for co-creating and expanding the iconic synthesizer-driven scores of many John Carpenter horror and science fiction films.
  • 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_69bd446de5648190b313a90bd96730d2 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd84d9a0788190a4a85a9cab07903f completed March 20, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c04c916df08190a95e3320ab364b52 completed March 22, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04ed9159481909adeb9228ce59d0e completed March 22, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04f7856848190a835c3ee0a32f649 completed March 22, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:52 p.m.