Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Best Man E161179 entity
Predicate leadActor P1507 FINISHED
Object Melissa De Sousa
Melissa De Sousa is an American actress best known for her role as Shelby in the romantic comedy-drama film "The Best Man" and its sequels.
E649365 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: Melissa De Sousa | Statement: [The Best Man, leadActor, Melissa De Sousa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Melissa De Sousa
Context triple: [The Best Man, leadActor, Melissa De Sousa]
  • A. Melissa Rycroft
    Melissa Rycroft is an American television personality and former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader best known for her appearances on reality shows such as The Bachelor and Dancing with the Stars.
  • B. Laura Lopes
    Laura Lopes is a British art curator and gallery co-founder, best known as the daughter of Queen Camilla and her first husband, Andrew Parker Bowles.
  • C. Melissa Agretti
    Melissa Agretti is a central, scheming heiress character from the 1980s American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest."
  • D. Melanie Sorich
    Melanie Sorich is the wife of American character actor Clint Howard.
  • E. Melissa Thomas
    Melissa Thomas is known as the wife of American screenwriter and director David Koepp.
  • 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: Melissa De Sousa
Triple: [The Best Man, leadActor, Melissa De Sousa]
Generated description
Melissa De Sousa is an American actress best known for her role as Shelby in the romantic comedy-drama film "The Best Man" and its sequels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Melissa De Sousa
Target entity description: Melissa De Sousa is an American actress best known for her role as Shelby in the romantic comedy-drama film "The Best Man" and its sequels.
  • A. Melissa Rycroft
    Melissa Rycroft is an American television personality and former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader best known for her appearances on reality shows such as The Bachelor and Dancing with the Stars.
  • B. Laura Lopes
    Laura Lopes is a British art curator and gallery co-founder, best known as the daughter of Queen Camilla and her first husband, Andrew Parker Bowles.
  • C. Melissa Agretti
    Melissa Agretti is a central, scheming heiress character from the 1980s American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest."
  • D. Melanie Sorich
    Melanie Sorich is the wife of American character actor Clint Howard.
  • E. Melissa Thomas
    Melissa Thomas is known as the wife of American screenwriter and director David Koepp.
  • 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_69c7bf709c4c819090c35eb41f46f5d2 completed March 28, 2026, 11:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7c08e0db88190ac0142980288cd72 completed March 28, 2026, 11:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7c1576818819087ad2d847f140433 completed March 28, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:29 p.m.