Triple

T8207156
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Whole Town’s Talking E191715 entity
Predicate starred P5563 FINISHED
Object Paul Harvey
Paul Harvey was a popular American radio broadcaster and commentator known for his distinctive voice and storytelling style on programs like "The Rest of the Story."
E719468 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: Paul Harvey | Statement: [The Whole Town’s Talking, starred, Paul Harvey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Harvey
Context triple: [The Whole Town’s Talking, starred, Paul Harvey]
  • A. Douglas Edwards
    Douglas Edwards was an American broadcast journalist best known as the first network television news anchor in the United States, leading CBS’s flagship evening newscast in the early years of TV news.
  • B. Ed McNeil
    Ed McNeil is a character in the 1958 Western film "Terror in a Texas Town," which centers on conflict, land disputes, and frontier justice in a small Texas community.
  • C. Bill Whitaker
    Bill Whitaker is an American television journalist best known as a longtime correspondent for the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
  • D. Chet Huntley
    Chet Huntley was a prominent American television newscaster best known as one half of the influential NBC evening news team "The Huntley–Brinkley Report" during the 1950s and 1960s.
  • E. Jim Hecht
    Jim Hecht is a television writer and producer best known for co-creating the HBO sports drama series "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty."
  • 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: Paul Harvey
Triple: [The Whole Town’s Talking, starred, Paul Harvey]
Generated description
Paul Harvey was a popular American radio broadcaster and commentator known for his distinctive voice and storytelling style on programs like "The Rest of the Story."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Harvey
Target entity description: Paul Harvey was a popular American radio broadcaster and commentator known for his distinctive voice and storytelling style on programs like "The Rest of the Story."
  • A. Douglas Edwards
    Douglas Edwards was an American broadcast journalist best known as the first network television news anchor in the United States, leading CBS’s flagship evening newscast in the early years of TV news.
  • B. Ed McNeil
    Ed McNeil is a character in the 1958 Western film "Terror in a Texas Town," which centers on conflict, land disputes, and frontier justice in a small Texas community.
  • C. Bill Whitaker
    Bill Whitaker is an American television journalist best known as a longtime correspondent for the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
  • D. Chet Huntley
    Chet Huntley was a prominent American television newscaster best known as one half of the influential NBC evening news team "The Huntley–Brinkley Report" during the 1950s and 1960s.
  • E. Jim Hecht
    Jim Hecht is a television writer and producer best known for co-creating the HBO sports drama series "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty."
  • 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_69ca82c7f3e08190857bf1fc63b2a10c completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb726b520081908ce4a03bd14dfcdf completed March 31, 2026, 7:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ccedda69148190b8c221221de5dae5 completed April 1, 2026, 10:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ccf1ba74548190831677bb126bea1a completed April 1, 2026, 10:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd05c2059081908bd04ee4722f9aad completed April 1, 2026, 11:47 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:43 p.m.