Triple

T661068
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hell on Wheels E11755 entity
Predicate starred P5563 FINISHED
Object Tom Noonan
Tom Noonan is an American character actor, writer, and director known for his distinctive, often menacing roles in films such as "Manhunter," "Last Action Hero," and "Synecdoche, New York."
 E148080 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: Tom Noonan | Statement: [Hell on Wheels, starred, Tom Noonan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tom Noonan
Context triple: [Hell on Wheels, starred, Tom Noonan]
  • A. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
  • B. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
  • C. Tim McClelland
    Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
  • D. Tommy Noonan
    Tommy Noonan was an American film and television actor and comedian known for his character roles in 1950s Hollywood movies.
  • E. Kevin O'Connor
    Kevin O'Connor is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the online advertising company DoubleClick.
  • 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: Tom Noonan
Triple: [Hell on Wheels, starred, Tom Noonan]
Generated description
Tom Noonan is an American character actor, writer, and director known for his distinctive, often menacing roles in films such as "Manhunter," "Last Action Hero," and "Synecdoche, New York."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tom Noonan
Target entity description: Tom Noonan is an American character actor, writer, and director known for his distinctive, often menacing roles in films such as "Manhunter," "Last Action Hero," and "Synecdoche, New York."
  • A. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
  • B. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
  • C. Tim McClelland
    Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
  • D. Tommy Noonan
    Tommy Noonan was an American film and television actor and comedian known for his character roles in 1950s Hollywood movies.
  • E. Kevin O'Connor
    Kevin O'Connor is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the online advertising company DoubleClick.
  • 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_69a4932862a0819098be659c814e4981 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49fa954988190841740a587ace466 completed March 1, 2026, 8:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acaca1f0988190aa95e12ecc86398e completed March 7, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acaf04879081908f86eda8b0b80f8a completed March 7, 2026, 11:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acaf5ccc488190ab93945c84738d80 completed March 7, 2026, 11:06 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.