Triple

T7775601
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Big Heat E221381 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Howard Wendell
Howard Wendell was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, including the classic crime drama "The Big Heat."
E693015 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: Howard Wendell | Statement: [The Big Heat, starring, Howard Wendell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Wendell
Context triple: [The Big Heat, starring, Howard Wendell]
  • A. Dan Jewett
    Dan Jewett is an American science teacher known for his brief marriage to billionaire philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott.
  • B. Russell Patterson
    Russell Patterson is an American conductor best known for his leadership roles with major U.S. orchestras, including serving as music director of the Kansas City Symphony.
  • C. Syd Saylor
    Syd Saylor was an American character actor known for his comic roles and prolific appearances in Westerns and adventure serials during the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. Paul Brooks
    Paul Brooks is known primarily as the husband of civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks.
  • E. Matt Bondurant
    Matt Bondurant is an American novelist and academic best known for his historical crime novel "The Wettest County in the World," which was adapted into the film "Lawless."
  • 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: Howard Wendell
Triple: [The Big Heat, starring, Howard Wendell]
Generated description
Howard Wendell was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, including the classic crime drama "The Big Heat."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Wendell
Target entity description: Howard Wendell was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, including the classic crime drama "The Big Heat."
  • A. Dan Jewett
    Dan Jewett is an American science teacher known for his brief marriage to billionaire philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott.
  • B. Russell Patterson
    Russell Patterson is an American conductor best known for his leadership roles with major U.S. orchestras, including serving as music director of the Kansas City Symphony.
  • C. Syd Saylor
    Syd Saylor was an American character actor known for his comic roles and prolific appearances in Westerns and adventure serials during the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. Paul Brooks
    Paul Brooks is known primarily as the husband of civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks.
  • E. Matt Bondurant
    Matt Bondurant is an American novelist and academic best known for his historical crime novel "The Wettest County in the World," which was adapted into the film "Lawless."
  • 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_69ca83ebbef881909ac47f789145fef7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69caa4d005808190ac14c8d716421bdb completed March 30, 2026, 4:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69caf58a86548190b870417692e4b654 completed March 30, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69caf81d934881908fa41ebd43f3b2e2 completed March 30, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69caf9f86d808190880f7bb2fc8d4fe3 completed March 30, 2026, 10:32 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 3:46 p.m.