Triple

T8270870
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Touched by an Angel E193423 entity
Predicate creator P184 FINISHED
Object John Masius
John Masius is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and writing several popular drama series, including the spiritual drama "Touched by an Angel."
 E762725 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: John Masius | Statement: [Touched by an Angel, creator, John Masius]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Masius
Context triple: [Touched by an Angel, creator, John Masius]
  • A. John Kostmayer
    John Kostmayer is an American screenwriter best known for writing the dark comedy film "I Love You to Death."
  • B. John Eisendrath
    John Eisendrath is a television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "The Blacklist" and "Alias."
  • C. Joseph Bortis
    Joseph Bortis was a 19th-century mountaineer known for participating in the pioneering first ascent of the Finsteraarhorn in the Swiss Alps.
  • D. Richard Masur
    Richard Masur is an American character actor known for his extensive film and television work since the 1970s, including roles in movies like "Risky Business" and the miniseries "It."
  • E. Charles Rettig
    Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
  • 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: John Masius
Triple: [Touched by an Angel, creator, John Masius]
Generated description
John Masius is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and writing several popular drama series, including the spiritual drama "Touched by an Angel."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Masius
Target entity description: John Masius is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and writing several popular drama series, including the spiritual drama "Touched by an Angel."
  • A. John Kostmayer
    John Kostmayer is an American screenwriter best known for writing the dark comedy film "I Love You to Death."
  • B. John Eisendrath
    John Eisendrath is a television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "The Blacklist" and "Alias."
  • C. Joseph Bortis
    Joseph Bortis was a 19th-century mountaineer known for participating in the pioneering first ascent of the Finsteraarhorn in the Swiss Alps.
  • D. Richard Masur
    Richard Masur is an American character actor known for his extensive film and television work since the 1970s, including roles in movies like "Risky Business" and the miniseries "It."
  • E. Charles Rettig
    Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
  • 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_69ca82e14ae481908ffdb822cd2192bc completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb7986f8cc8190a529dda980dd6e98 completed March 31, 2026, 7:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf9fdde41081908de793672a889a67 completed April 3, 2026, 11:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfa14f0f3c8190bf7081e51410a491 completed April 3, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfa28589708190b8fc32f4944d0a37 completed April 3, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:50 p.m.