Triple

T7497463
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Richard McMillen E177169 entity
Predicate portrayed P1668 FINISHED
Object Lowell Mather in the television series "Wings"
Lowell Mather is the lovable, somewhat dimwitted but mechanically gifted airport mechanic and comic relief character on the television sitcom "Wings."
E669033 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: Lowell Mather in the television series "Wings" | Statement: [Thomas Richard McMillen, portrayed, Lowell Mather in the television series "Wings"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lowell Mather in the television series "Wings"
Context triple: [Thomas Richard McMillen, portrayed, Lowell Mather in the television series "Wings"]
  • A. Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey
    Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey is the harried, increasingly frazzled air traffic control supervisor whose escalating declarations about what he’s “picked the wrong week” to quit provide one of the running gags in the disaster-movie spoof Airplane!.
  • B. Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman
    Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman is the comedic portrayal of a middle-aged Manhattan publishing executive whose wandering eye and vivid fantasies are tested by temptation in the classic film "The Seven Year Itch."
  • C. Fred Ward as John Anglin
    Fred Ward as John Anglin is the actor’s portrayal of one of the real-life inmate escapees in the 1979 prison drama film "Escape from Alcatraz."
  • D. William Holden as David Larrabee
    William Holden as David Larrabee is the charming, carefree younger Larrabee brother and playboy in the 1954 romantic comedy film "Sabrina."
  • E. Sergeant Michael Downey (fictional character)
    Sergeant Michael Downey is a fictional military non-commissioned officer character, typically portrayed as a disciplined and authoritative figure within his unit.
  • 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: Lowell Mather in the television series "Wings"
Triple: [Thomas Richard McMillen, portrayed, Lowell Mather in the television series "Wings"]
Generated description
Lowell Mather is the lovable, somewhat dimwitted but mechanically gifted airport mechanic and comic relief character on the television sitcom "Wings."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lowell Mather in the television series "Wings"
Target entity description: Lowell Mather is the lovable, somewhat dimwitted but mechanically gifted airport mechanic and comic relief character on the television sitcom "Wings."
  • A. Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey
    Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey is the harried, increasingly frazzled air traffic control supervisor whose escalating declarations about what he’s “picked the wrong week” to quit provide one of the running gags in the disaster-movie spoof Airplane!.
  • B. Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman
    Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman is the comedic portrayal of a middle-aged Manhattan publishing executive whose wandering eye and vivid fantasies are tested by temptation in the classic film "The Seven Year Itch."
  • C. Fred Ward as John Anglin
    Fred Ward as John Anglin is the actor’s portrayal of one of the real-life inmate escapees in the 1979 prison drama film "Escape from Alcatraz."
  • D. William Holden as David Larrabee
    William Holden as David Larrabee is the charming, carefree younger Larrabee brother and playboy in the 1954 romantic comedy film "Sabrina."
  • E. Sergeant Michael Downey (fictional character)
    Sergeant Michael Downey is a fictional military non-commissioned officer character, typically portrayed as a disciplined and authoritative figure within his unit.
  • 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_69c69f2583808190bd1a4936c42a5815 completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f5963d98819098275b161848d2d4 completed March 27, 2026, 9:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c83c8b28d0819095c7b666d442c7ab completed March 28, 2026, 8:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c83d49547081909028ac0293dae102 completed March 28, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8410c22bc8190a1f52179bf3c720b completed March 28, 2026, 8:58 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:44 p.m.