Triple

T6369666
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sherri Shepherd E143314 entity
Predicate hasChild P369 FINISHED
Object Jeffrey Charles Tarpley Jr.
Jeffrey Charles Tarpley Jr. is the son of American actress, comedian, and television personality Sherri Shepherd.
E588016 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: Jeffrey Charles Tarpley Jr. | Statement: [Sherri Shepherd, hasChild, Jeffrey Charles Tarpley Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jeffrey Charles Tarpley Jr.
Context triple: [Sherri Shepherd, hasChild, Jeffrey Charles Tarpley Jr.]
  • A. Tarik Matthews
    Tarik Matthews is the child of Gloria Matthews.
  • B. Kenneth Lofton
    Kenneth Lofton, better known as Kenny Lofton, is a former Major League Baseball center fielder renowned for his speed, base-stealing ability, and multiple All-Star selections during the 1990s and early 2000s.
  • C. Derrick Trotman
    Derrick Trotman is a music producer known for his work on the track "Umi Says."
  • D. Trey Wilson
    Trey Wilson was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in 1980s films such as "Bull Durham" and "Raising Arizona."
  • E. Joe Jamail
    Joe Jamail was a prominent American trial lawyer and billionaire philanthropist from Texas, often called the “King of Torts” for his record-setting courtroom victories.
  • 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: Jeffrey Charles Tarpley Jr.
Triple: [Sherri Shepherd, hasChild, Jeffrey Charles Tarpley Jr.]
Generated description
Jeffrey Charles Tarpley Jr. is the son of American actress, comedian, and television personality Sherri Shepherd.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jeffrey Charles Tarpley Jr.
Target entity description: Jeffrey Charles Tarpley Jr. is the son of American actress, comedian, and television personality Sherri Shepherd.
  • A. Tarik Matthews
    Tarik Matthews is the child of Gloria Matthews.
  • B. Kenneth Lofton
    Kenneth Lofton, better known as Kenny Lofton, is a former Major League Baseball center fielder renowned for his speed, base-stealing ability, and multiple All-Star selections during the 1990s and early 2000s.
  • C. Derrick Trotman
    Derrick Trotman is a music producer known for his work on the track "Umi Says."
  • D. Trey Wilson
    Trey Wilson was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in 1980s films such as "Bull Durham" and "Raising Arizona."
  • E. Joe Jamail
    Joe Jamail was a prominent American trial lawyer and billionaire philanthropist from Texas, often called the “King of Torts” for his record-setting courtroom victories.
  • 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_69c008d8c61081908bcaf61510d881ed completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c068265a7481908571be7ea4ac11b7 completed March 22, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c62d8bce3481909b0bf7533b330d1f completed March 27, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c62e2072808190a4f2dd262b631c88 completed March 27, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c62f1bbdac8190b0cff9fbcddd68a7 completed March 27, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:33 p.m.