Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lon Chaney E149675 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Leonidas Frank Chaney
Leonidas Frank Chaney, better known as Lon Chaney, was a pioneering American silent film actor famed for his transformative character roles and innovative makeup artistry, earning him the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Faces."
E601202 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: Leonidas Frank Chaney | Statement: [Lon Chaney, birthName, Leonidas Frank Chaney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Leonidas Frank Chaney
Context triple: [Lon Chaney, birthName, Leonidas Frank Chaney]
  • A. Victor French
    Victor French was an American actor and director best known for his roles in classic television series such as "Little House on the Prairie" and "Highway to Heaven."
  • B. Joseph Borden McKean
    Joseph Borden McKean was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania in the early 19th century.
  • C. Burn Hugh Gorman
    Burn Hugh Gorman is a British-American actor and musician known for his roles in series like "Torchwood" and films such as "Pacific Rim."
  • D. Joseph Aloysius Dwan
    Joseph Aloysius Dwan, better known as Allan Dwan, was a pioneering Canadian-born American film director and producer active from the silent era through the golden age of Hollywood.
  • E. Broderick Crawford
    Broderick Crawford was an American actor best known for his Academy Award-winning role in the film "All the King's Men" and for starring in the television series "Highway Patrol."
  • 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: Leonidas Frank Chaney
Triple: [Lon Chaney, birthName, Leonidas Frank Chaney]
Generated description
Leonidas Frank Chaney, better known as Lon Chaney, was a pioneering American silent film actor famed for his transformative character roles and innovative makeup artistry, earning him the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Faces."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Leonidas Frank Chaney
Target entity description: Leonidas Frank Chaney, better known as Lon Chaney, was a pioneering American silent film actor famed for his transformative character roles and innovative makeup artistry, earning him the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Faces."
  • A. Victor French
    Victor French was an American actor and director best known for his roles in classic television series such as "Little House on the Prairie" and "Highway to Heaven."
  • B. Joseph Borden McKean
    Joseph Borden McKean was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania in the early 19th century.
  • C. Burn Hugh Gorman
    Burn Hugh Gorman is a British-American actor and musician known for his roles in series like "Torchwood" and films such as "Pacific Rim."
  • D. Joseph Aloysius Dwan
    Joseph Aloysius Dwan, better known as Allan Dwan, was a pioneering Canadian-born American film director and producer active from the silent era through the golden age of Hollywood.
  • E. Broderick Crawford
    Broderick Crawford was an American actor best known for his Academy Award-winning role in the film "All the King's Men" and for starring in the television series "Highway Patrol."
  • 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_69c687ed8a9c81908bb671717cb192ef completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6af7aff44819089da6145e1ef5f76 completed March 27, 2026, 4:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6cbe2bcfc8190a3224c688443edc9 completed March 27, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6cd89b51c81909ea17d391732630e completed March 27, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6ce70442c8190a12a6c6eb76c5269 completed March 27, 2026, 6:37 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:58 p.m.