Triple

T7809465
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hot Water E180640 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object William Gillespie
William Gillespie was a Scottish-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his supporting roles in numerous comedies, including those produced by Hal Roach.
 E699090 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: William Gillespie | Statement: [Hot Water, castMember, William Gillespie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Gillespie
Context triple: [Hot Water, castMember, William Gillespie]
  • A. Jim V. Hart
    Jim V. Hart is an American screenwriter and author best known for his work on major fantasy and adventure films such as "Hook," "Bram Stoker's Dracula," and "Contact."
  • B. Bob Scott
    Bob Scott was an Australian rules football field umpire best known for officiating the 1934 Victorian Football League Grand Final.
  • C. Bill Dellinger
    Bill Dellinger is a former American middle-distance runner and longtime University of Oregon coach renowned for mentoring legendary athletes such as Steve Prefontaine.
  • D. James Nourse
    James Nourse was an 18th-century British sea captain involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
  • E. Dan Truman
    Dan Truman is an American country musician best known as the keyboardist for the Grammy-winning band Diamond Rio.
  • 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: William Gillespie
Triple: [Hot Water, castMember, William Gillespie]
Generated description
William Gillespie was a Scottish-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his supporting roles in numerous comedies, including those produced by Hal Roach.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Gillespie
Target entity description: William Gillespie was a Scottish-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his supporting roles in numerous comedies, including those produced by Hal Roach.
  • A. Jim V. Hart
    Jim V. Hart is an American screenwriter and author best known for his work on major fantasy and adventure films such as "Hook," "Bram Stoker's Dracula," and "Contact."
  • B. Bob Scott
    Bob Scott was an Australian rules football field umpire best known for officiating the 1934 Victorian Football League Grand Final.
  • C. Bill Dellinger
    Bill Dellinger is a former American middle-distance runner and longtime University of Oregon coach renowned for mentoring legendary athletes such as Steve Prefontaine.
  • D. James Nourse
    James Nourse was an 18th-century British sea captain involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
  • E. Dan Truman
    Dan Truman is an American country musician best known as the keyboardist for the Grammy-winning band Diamond Rio.
  • 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_69ca827f6f148190beca4e245b993506 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69caf78bb4b08190b2b3b51c5a0a033c completed March 30, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb5a4724288190b6f18f8cdde080ed completed March 31, 2026, 5:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb762ce6208190a24438e26ae83785 completed March 31, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cbb615dc248190b57b4fc7c430517f completed March 31, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:36 p.m.