Triple

T661880
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Tonight Show E11772 entity
Predicate creator P184 FINISHED
Object Sylvester L. Weaver Jr.
Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. was an influential American television executive and programming innovator who helped shape early network TV in the 1950s.
E233218 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: Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. | Statement: [The Tonight Show, creator, Sylvester L. Weaver Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sylvester L. Weaver Jr.
Context triple: [The Tonight Show, creator, Sylvester L. Weaver Jr.]
  • A. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • B. William D. Stephens
    William D. Stephens was an American Republican politician who served as the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.
  • C. Alton G. Keel Jr.
    Alton G. Keel Jr. was an American aerospace engineer and government official who held senior defense and space policy roles, including service on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • D. Vernon L. Walker
    Vernon L. Walker was an American cinematographer and visual effects artist best known for his pioneering work on early Hollywood fantasy and adventure films, including the original 1933 King Kong.
  • E. Robert W. Hunt
    Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer and industrialist known for his influential role in the development of the U.S. mining and metallurgical industries and leadership in professional engineering organizations.
  • 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: Sylvester L. Weaver Jr.
Triple: [The Tonight Show, creator, Sylvester L. Weaver Jr.]
Generated description
Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. was an influential American television executive and programming innovator who helped shape early network TV in the 1950s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sylvester L. Weaver Jr.
Target entity description: Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. was an influential American television executive and programming innovator who helped shape early network TV in the 1950s.
  • A. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • B. William D. Stephens
    William D. Stephens was an American Republican politician who served as the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.
  • C. Alton G. Keel Jr.
    Alton G. Keel Jr. was an American aerospace engineer and government official who held senior defense and space policy roles, including service on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • D. Vernon L. Walker
    Vernon L. Walker was an American cinematographer and visual effects artist best known for his pioneering work on early Hollywood fantasy and adventure films, including the original 1933 King Kong.
  • E. Robert W. Hunt
    Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer and industrialist known for his influential role in the development of the U.S. mining and metallurgical industries and leadership in professional engineering organizations.
  • 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_69ae3032c1588190bae02f0e2152c6f1 completed March 9, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae30f6b7c4819080cb7cb7adc1f6d3 completed March 9, 2026, 2:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae31849d7c8190a4e3c90334bf21a5 completed March 9, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.