Triple

T6565294
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bad Day at Black Rock E153887 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object John Ericson
John Ericson was a German-born American actor known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often appearing in Westerns and dramas.
E603851 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: John Ericson | Statement: [Bad Day at Black Rock, castMember, John Ericson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Ericson
Context triple: [Bad Day at Black Rock, castMember, John Ericson]
  • A. Alan B. Whiting
    Alan B. Whiting is an astronomer known for his work on dwarf spheroidal galaxies, including the discovery of the Andromeda VI satellite galaxy of Andromeda.
  • B. August S. Jensen
    August S. Jensen was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Gunnbjørn Fjeld, the highest peak in Greenland and the Arctic.
  • C. Adolph B. Jepsen
    Adolph B. Jepsen was an individual notable enough to be recorded as a distinguished bearer of the Jepsen surname, though specific widely known biographical details about him are limited.
  • D. William Tharp
    William Tharp was a 19th-century American politician who served as the 36th Governor of Delaware.
  • E. Elihu Vedder
    Elihu Vedder was a 19th-century American symbolist painter and illustrator best known for his mystical, allegorical works and his influential illustrations for Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
  • 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: John Ericson
Triple: [Bad Day at Black Rock, castMember, John Ericson]
Generated description
John Ericson was a German-born American actor known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often appearing in Westerns and dramas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Ericson
Target entity description: John Ericson was a German-born American actor known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often appearing in Westerns and dramas.
  • A. Alan B. Whiting
    Alan B. Whiting is an astronomer known for his work on dwarf spheroidal galaxies, including the discovery of the Andromeda VI satellite galaxy of Andromeda.
  • B. August S. Jensen
    August S. Jensen was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Gunnbjørn Fjeld, the highest peak in Greenland and the Arctic.
  • C. Adolph B. Jepsen
    Adolph B. Jepsen was an individual notable enough to be recorded as a distinguished bearer of the Jepsen surname, though specific widely known biographical details about him are limited.
  • D. William Tharp
    William Tharp was a 19th-century American politician who served as the 36th Governor of Delaware.
  • E. Elihu Vedder
    Elihu Vedder was a 19th-century American symbolist painter and illustrator best known for his mystical, allegorical works and his influential illustrations for Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
  • 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_69c6880cb35881909b763eb0125236b9 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ae3b9ec8819080f3052556d95810 completed March 27, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6d5622e0481909b0ac0f4e06d19bc completed March 27, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6d828620081909c1b4dfaa96efd62 completed March 27, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6d8a3d194819080f33e179a8a8679 completed March 27, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:52 p.m.