Triple

T5904420
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lord Dundreary E131306 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Edward Askew Sothern
Edward Askew Sothern was a 19th-century Anglo-American actor best known for his wildly popular comic stage performances, particularly in Victorian theatre.
E554710 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: Edward Askew Sothern | Statement: [Lord Dundreary, portrayedBy, Edward Askew Sothern]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Askew Sothern
Context triple: [Lord Dundreary, portrayedBy, Edward Askew Sothern]
  • A. Allan Manings
    Allan Manings was an American television writer and producer known for his work on influential sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • B. Edgar Selwyn
    Edgar Selwyn was an American playwright, director, producer, and film executive who co-founded Goldwyn Pictures and played a significant role in early Hollywood and Broadway.
  • C. George Irving
    George Irving was an American film and stage actor and director active during the early 20th century silent and early sound eras.
  • D. Godfrey Tearle
    Godfrey Tearle was a distinguished British stage and film actor of the early 20th century, known for his classical Shakespearean roles and appearances in notable films.
  • E. Henry Allerton
    Henry Allerton was a member of the Allerton family associated with early colonial New England, likely connected to Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony leader Isaac Allerton.
  • 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: Edward Askew Sothern
Triple: [Lord Dundreary, portrayedBy, Edward Askew Sothern]
Generated description
Edward Askew Sothern was a 19th-century Anglo-American actor best known for his wildly popular comic stage performances, particularly in Victorian theatre.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Askew Sothern
Target entity description: Edward Askew Sothern was a 19th-century Anglo-American actor best known for his wildly popular comic stage performances, particularly in Victorian theatre.
  • A. Allan Manings
    Allan Manings was an American television writer and producer known for his work on influential sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • B. Edgar Selwyn
    Edgar Selwyn was an American playwright, director, producer, and film executive who co-founded Goldwyn Pictures and played a significant role in early Hollywood and Broadway.
  • C. George Irving
    George Irving was an American film and stage actor and director active during the early 20th century silent and early sound eras.
  • D. Godfrey Tearle
    Godfrey Tearle was a distinguished British stage and film actor of the early 20th century, known for his classical Shakespearean roles and appearances in notable films.
  • E. Henry Allerton
    Henry Allerton was a member of the Allerton family associated with early colonial New England, likely connected to Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony leader Isaac Allerton.
  • 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_69c0085864a88190a569c05ff7d65f29 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c037395a7c8190a44197a5415101f6 completed March 22, 2026, 6:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0b166b0bc8190a201899cf45a9b31 completed March 23, 2026, 3:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0b27438a08190ab6b72c8fd682bf6 completed March 23, 2026, 3:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0b309a70081908ad3e819879b17e4 completed March 23, 2026, 3:27 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:59 p.m.