Triple

T6956063
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Greg Nicotero E161245 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Nicotero
Nicotero is the surname of Greg Nicotero, an American special effects makeup artist, director, and producer best known for his work on horror films and the television series "The Walking Dead."
 E630976 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: Nicotero | Statement: [Greg Nicotero, familyName, Nicotero]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nicotero
Context triple: [Greg Nicotero, familyName, Nicotero]
  • A. Nicolosi
    Nicolosi is a Sicilian town known as a main gateway and base for excursions to Mount Etna.
  • B. Nolano
    Nolano is the Italian demonym for a person from the town of Nola in the Campania region of southern Italy.
  • C. Garessio
    Garessio is a historic town in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, situated in a mountainous area near the Ligurian border.
  • D. Bisacquino
    Bisacquino is a small town in the Sicilian province of Palermo, Italy, known as the birthplace of film director Frank Capra.
  • E. Crispiano
    Crispiano is a town and comune in the Apulia region of southern Italy, known for its rural landscapes and traditional agricultural activities.
  • 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: Nicotero
Triple: [Greg Nicotero, familyName, Nicotero]
Generated description
Nicotero is the surname of Greg Nicotero, an American special effects makeup artist, director, and producer best known for his work on horror films and the television series "The Walking Dead."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nicotero
Target entity description: Nicotero is the surname of Greg Nicotero, an American special effects makeup artist, director, and producer best known for his work on horror films and the television series "The Walking Dead."
  • A. Nicolosi
    Nicolosi is a Sicilian town known as a main gateway and base for excursions to Mount Etna.
  • B. Nolano
    Nolano is the Italian demonym for a person from the town of Nola in the Campania region of southern Italy.
  • C. Garessio
    Garessio is a historic town in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, situated in a mountainous area near the Ligurian border.
  • D. Bisacquino
    Bisacquino is a small town in the Sicilian province of Palermo, Italy, known as the birthplace of film director Frank Capra.
  • E. Crispiano
    Crispiano is a town and comune in the Apulia region of southern Italy, known for its rural landscapes and traditional agricultural activities.
  • 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_69c6dacf8c8c8190a25dbacebeb4b66e completed March 27, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c75888d48c81908a8dbd16d7591b55 completed March 28, 2026, 4:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7596571a48190a8a04b9b24b5e4cb completed March 28, 2026, 4:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c75a57dc308190a691d3ae55cc39ef completed March 28, 2026, 4:34 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:29 p.m.