Triple

T6524715
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dean Cain E151274 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Dean George Tanaka
Dean George Tanaka, better known as Dean Cain, is an American actor and television host best known for playing Superman/Clark Kent in the 1990s TV series "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman."
 E610063 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: Dean George Tanaka | Statement: [Dean Cain, birthName, Dean George Tanaka]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Dean George Tanaka
Context triple: [Dean Cain, birthName, Dean George Tanaka]
  • A. Ray Yoshida
    Ray Yoshida was an influential American painter and educator associated with the Chicago Imagists, known for his collage-like compositions and his long teaching career shaping generations of artists.
  • B. Hiro Yamamoto
    Hiro Yamamoto is an American bassist best known as a founding member of the Seattle grunge band Soundgarden.
  • C. Shohei Shigematsu
    Shohei Shigematsu is a Japanese architect and partner at OMA known for leading innovative cultural and educational projects in North America.
  • D. Naoki Tanaka
    Naoki Tanaka is a Japanese politician and businessman known as the son of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and a member of the influential Tanaka political family.
  • E. William Kenzo Nakamura
    William Kenzo Nakamura was a Japanese American U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient who served in World War II.
  • 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: Dean George Tanaka
Triple: [Dean Cain, birthName, Dean George Tanaka]
Generated description
Dean George Tanaka, better known as Dean Cain, is an American actor and television host best known for playing Superman/Clark Kent in the 1990s TV series "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Dean George Tanaka
Target entity description: Dean George Tanaka, better known as Dean Cain, is an American actor and television host best known for playing Superman/Clark Kent in the 1990s TV series "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman."
  • A. Ray Yoshida
    Ray Yoshida was an influential American painter and educator associated with the Chicago Imagists, known for his collage-like compositions and his long teaching career shaping generations of artists.
  • B. Hiro Yamamoto
    Hiro Yamamoto is an American bassist best known as a founding member of the Seattle grunge band Soundgarden.
  • C. Shohei Shigematsu
    Shohei Shigematsu is a Japanese architect and partner at OMA known for leading innovative cultural and educational projects in North America.
  • D. Naoki Tanaka
    Naoki Tanaka is a Japanese politician and businessman known as the son of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and a member of the influential Tanaka political family.
  • E. William Kenzo Nakamura
    William Kenzo Nakamura was a Japanese American U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient who served in World War II.
  • 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_69c687f522748190b3058405553cdabd completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ad9831f88190a2b64cf6bc8c9a11 completed March 27, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6eece13088190a49a72d5a784f6f8 completed March 27, 2026, 8:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6f09ea58c8190bfd8a183581b5a5a completed March 27, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6f1a0935881908afc30ce76bdf76f completed March 27, 2026, 9:07 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:45 p.m.