Triple

T7557989
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Howards of Virginia E178720 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Irving Bacon
Irving Bacon was an American character actor and comedian known for his prolific work in early 20th-century film and television, often appearing in supporting and bit roles.
E672656 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: Irving Bacon | Statement: [The Howards of Virginia, starring, Irving Bacon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Irving Bacon
Context triple: [The Howards of Virginia, starring, Irving Bacon]
  • A. Pierpont Bacon
    Pierpont Bacon was an American benefactor best known for establishing Bacon Academy, a historic educational institution in Colchester, Connecticut.
  • B. Paul Bacon
    Paul Bacon was an influential American graphic designer and illustrator renowned for pioneering the "big book" cover style for major 20th-century novels and jazz albums.
  • C. Onslow Stevens
    Onslow Stevens was an American character actor active from the 1930s to the 1950s, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films and early television productions.
  • D. Robert Fabyan
    Robert Fabyan was an early 16th-century English chronicler and London alderman best known for his historical compilation "Fabyan's Chronicle," which combined English and French histories.
  • E. Granville Hicks
    Granville Hicks was an American literary critic, novelist, and educator known for his Marxist-influenced criticism and his role in mid-20th-century American literary and political debates.
  • 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: Irving Bacon
Triple: [The Howards of Virginia, starring, Irving Bacon]
Generated description
Irving Bacon was an American character actor and comedian known for his prolific work in early 20th-century film and television, often appearing in supporting and bit roles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Irving Bacon
Target entity description: Irving Bacon was an American character actor and comedian known for his prolific work in early 20th-century film and television, often appearing in supporting and bit roles.
  • A. Pierpont Bacon
    Pierpont Bacon was an American benefactor best known for establishing Bacon Academy, a historic educational institution in Colchester, Connecticut.
  • B. Paul Bacon
    Paul Bacon was an influential American graphic designer and illustrator renowned for pioneering the "big book" cover style for major 20th-century novels and jazz albums.
  • C. Onslow Stevens
    Onslow Stevens was an American character actor active from the 1930s to the 1950s, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films and early television productions.
  • D. Robert Fabyan
    Robert Fabyan was an early 16th-century English chronicler and London alderman best known for his historical compilation "Fabyan's Chronicle," which combined English and French histories.
  • E. Granville Hicks
    Granville Hicks was an American literary critic, novelist, and educator known for his Marxist-influenced criticism and his role in mid-20th-century American literary and political debates.
  • 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_69c69f2da22c8190a50942ac20af70e8 completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f8db3d508190850ed41854d69838 completed March 27, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c856c833288190842c41e9010d56de completed March 28, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8575116c481909aa2bebb997e2883 completed March 28, 2026, 10:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c857d522dc8190ae3c4734ac428334 completed March 28, 2026, 10:36 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:50 p.m.