Triple

T7162108
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dick Powell E166970 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Richard Ewing Powell
Richard Ewing Powell, better known as Dick Powell, was an American actor, singer, and director who transitioned from light musical comedies to hard-boiled film noir roles and later became a prominent television producer.
E651080 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: Richard Ewing Powell | Statement: [Dick Powell, birthName, Richard Ewing Powell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Ewing Powell
Context triple: [Dick Powell, birthName, Richard Ewing Powell]
  • A. Rance Howard
    Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
  • B. Paul Powell
    Paul Powell was an American film director active during the silent era, known for helming several popular features in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • C. Lloyd Owen
    Lloyd Owen is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "Miss Potter" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power."
  • D. Ricardo Cortez
    Ricardo Cortez was an American actor of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his leading-man roles in crime dramas and early film noir.
  • E. Ray Curtiss
    Ray Curtiss is a film editor best known for his work on the 1938 aviation adventure movie "The Dawn 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: Richard Ewing Powell
Triple: [Dick Powell, birthName, Richard Ewing Powell]
Generated description
Richard Ewing Powell, better known as Dick Powell, was an American actor, singer, and director who transitioned from light musical comedies to hard-boiled film noir roles and later became a prominent television producer.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Ewing Powell
Target entity description: Richard Ewing Powell, better known as Dick Powell, was an American actor, singer, and director who transitioned from light musical comedies to hard-boiled film noir roles and later became a prominent television producer.
  • A. Rance Howard
    Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
  • B. Paul Powell
    Paul Powell was an American film director active during the silent era, known for helming several popular features in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • C. Lloyd Owen
    Lloyd Owen is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "Miss Potter" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power."
  • D. Ricardo Cortez
    Ricardo Cortez was an American actor of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his leading-man roles in crime dramas and early film noir.
  • E. Ray Curtiss
    Ray Curtiss is a film editor best known for his work on the 1938 aviation adventure movie "The Dawn 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_69c68887a5cc8190bec0ea96227164f7 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e82e4b248190ad3c3863cb93971e completed March 27, 2026, 8:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7cbdab96c81909b9cfa10973fbf23 completed March 28, 2026, 12:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7cc86efa481909b0d6cb04755efde completed March 28, 2026, 12:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7cd1d5ac08190bb085530c647a54c completed March 28, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:47 p.m.