Triple

T5916881
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Michael Ironside E131601 entity
Predicate characterPlayed P1507 FINISHED
Object Lieutenant Commander Rick "Jester" Heatherly in Top Gun
Lieutenant Commander Rick "Jester" Heatherly is the seasoned, no-nonsense Top Gun instructor and former combat pilot who helps train Maverick and the other elite aviators in the film.
 E557457 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: Lieutenant Commander Rick "Jester" Heatherly in Top Gun | Statement: [Michael Ironside, characterPlayed, Lieutenant Commander Rick "Jester" Heatherly in Top Gun]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lieutenant Commander Rick "Jester" Heatherly in Top Gun
Context triple: [Michael Ironside, characterPlayed, Lieutenant Commander Rick "Jester" Heatherly in Top Gun]
  • A. Charlie Blackwood in Top Gun
    Charlie Blackwood in Top Gun is the civilian astrophysicist and flight instructor who serves as Maverick’s love interest and intellectual counterpart at the elite Navy fighter weapons school.
  • B. Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway
    Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway is a hard-nosed, skeptical police detective who relentlessly pursues the mysterious vigilante created by the magical mask in "The Mask" franchise.
  • C. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
    Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is a daring and rebellious U.S. Navy fighter pilot, best known as Tom Cruise’s iconic character from the Top Gun film series.
  • D. Commander Kelly Grayson
    Commander Kelly Grayson is a central character on the sci-fi comedy-drama series "The Orville," serving as the ship's first officer and the ex-wife of Captain Ed Mercer.
  • E. Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith in "The A-Team"
    Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith is the cigar-chomping, disguise-loving leader and master tactician of the fugitive mercenary team in the action-adventure television series "The A-Team."
  • 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: Lieutenant Commander Rick "Jester" Heatherly in Top Gun
Triple: [Michael Ironside, characterPlayed, Lieutenant Commander Rick "Jester" Heatherly in Top Gun]
Generated description
Lieutenant Commander Rick "Jester" Heatherly is the seasoned, no-nonsense Top Gun instructor and former combat pilot who helps train Maverick and the other elite aviators in the film.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lieutenant Commander Rick "Jester" Heatherly in Top Gun
Target entity description: Lieutenant Commander Rick "Jester" Heatherly is the seasoned, no-nonsense Top Gun instructor and former combat pilot who helps train Maverick and the other elite aviators in the film.
  • A. Charlie Blackwood in Top Gun
    Charlie Blackwood in Top Gun is the civilian astrophysicist and flight instructor who serves as Maverick’s love interest and intellectual counterpart at the elite Navy fighter weapons school.
  • B. Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway
    Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway is a hard-nosed, skeptical police detective who relentlessly pursues the mysterious vigilante created by the magical mask in "The Mask" franchise.
  • C. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
    Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is a daring and rebellious U.S. Navy fighter pilot, best known as Tom Cruise’s iconic character from the Top Gun film series.
  • D. Commander Kelly Grayson
    Commander Kelly Grayson is a central character on the sci-fi comedy-drama series "The Orville," serving as the ship's first officer and the ex-wife of Captain Ed Mercer.
  • E. Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith in "The A-Team"
    Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith is the cigar-chomping, disguise-loving leader and master tactician of the fugitive mercenary team in the action-adventure television series "The A-Team."
  • 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_69c0085a1ed08190a7e9a8b6323fd680 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c037bcea9c8190a34dc03857e3b80b completed March 22, 2026, 6:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0c02c24cc8190a98d24f7445f59b7 completed March 23, 2026, 4:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0c19665b08190ab3c66b7c6c33f61 completed March 23, 2026, 4:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0c4576824819080ced71df8fdda6c completed March 23, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:59 p.m.