Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Best Man E161179 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Lance Sullivan
Lance Sullivan is a central character in the romantic comedy-drama film series "The Best Man," known as a successful professional athlete whose personal relationships and moral choices drive much of the story’s emotional conflict.
E641124 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: Lance Sullivan | Statement: [The Best Man, mainCharacter, Lance Sullivan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lance Sullivan
Context triple: [The Best Man, mainCharacter, Lance Sullivan]
  • A. Lance LePere
    Lance LePere is an American fashion designer and longtime creative collaborator best known as the husband of designer Michael Kors.
  • B. Lance Cumson
    Lance Cumson is a central, often scheming heir in the 1980s American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known for his turbulent family and romantic entanglements.
  • C. Lance Johnson
    Lance Johnson is a film producer known for his work on the biographical comedy-drama "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers."
  • D. Lance Stater
    Lance Stater is a central character in the British comedy series "Detectorists," portrayed as an earnest, somewhat melancholic metal-detecting enthusiast and best friend of Andy Stone.
  • E. Brandon Sullivan
    Brandon Sullivan is the troubled, sex-addicted protagonist of the 2011 drama film "Shame," portrayed by Michael Fassbender.
  • 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: Lance Sullivan
Triple: [The Best Man, mainCharacter, Lance Sullivan]
Generated description
Lance Sullivan is a central character in the romantic comedy-drama film series "The Best Man," known as a successful professional athlete whose personal relationships and moral choices drive much of the story’s emotional conflict.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lance Sullivan
Target entity description: Lance Sullivan is a central character in the romantic comedy-drama film series "The Best Man," known as a successful professional athlete whose personal relationships and moral choices drive much of the story’s emotional conflict.
  • A. Lance LePere
    Lance LePere is an American fashion designer and longtime creative collaborator best known as the husband of designer Michael Kors.
  • B. Lance Cumson
    Lance Cumson is a central, often scheming heir in the 1980s American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known for his turbulent family and romantic entanglements.
  • C. Lance Johnson
    Lance Johnson is a film producer known for his work on the biographical comedy-drama "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers."
  • D. Lance Stater
    Lance Stater is a central character in the British comedy series "Detectorists," portrayed as an earnest, somewhat melancholic metal-detecting enthusiast and best friend of Andy Stone.
  • E. Brandon Sullivan
    Brandon Sullivan is the troubled, sex-addicted protagonist of the 2011 drama film "Shame," portrayed by Michael Fassbender.
  • 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_69c68852a9a0819097797e31d492e273 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6dab18d648190a2f238fce3e59365 completed March 27, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7942eeb288190acad3bf999a6ea2e completed March 28, 2026, 8:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c796720c388190b360d691aef39761 completed March 28, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c797288eb48190b994452884b05109 completed March 28, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:29 p.m.