Triple

T8440882
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jimmy McNulty E199347 entity
Predicate antagonisticTo P18963 FINISHED
Object Ervin Burrell
Ervin Burrell is a high-ranking, politically minded Baltimore police commander in the television series "The Wire," known for prioritizing statistics and career advancement over substantive police work.
E734463 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: Ervin Burrell | Statement: [Jimmy McNulty, antagonisticTo, Ervin Burrell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ervin Burrell
Context triple: [Jimmy McNulty, antagonisticTo, Ervin Burrell]
  • A. Henry Burris
    Henry Burris is a former Canadian Football League quarterback best known for his prolific passing career, multiple Grey Cup championships, and status as one of the league’s all-time greats.
  • B. Melvin Booker
    Melvin Booker is a former American professional basketball player and point guard who starred at the University of Missouri and later played in the NBA and overseas.
  • C. Dick Foran
    Dick Foran was an American actor and singer best known for his roles in 1930s and 1940s Westerns and adventure films.
  • D. Byron Pringle
    Byron Pringle is an American professional football wide receiver and return specialist who has played in the NFL, including winning a Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs.
  • E. Rich Gooch
    Rich Gooch is a musician best known as a member of the American rock band Quarterflash.
  • 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: Ervin Burrell
Triple: [Jimmy McNulty, antagonisticTo, Ervin Burrell]
Generated description
Ervin Burrell is a high-ranking, politically minded Baltimore police commander in the television series "The Wire," known for prioritizing statistics and career advancement over substantive police work.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ervin Burrell
Target entity description: Ervin Burrell is a high-ranking, politically minded Baltimore police commander in the television series "The Wire," known for prioritizing statistics and career advancement over substantive police work.
  • A. Henry Burris
    Henry Burris is a former Canadian Football League quarterback best known for his prolific passing career, multiple Grey Cup championships, and status as one of the league’s all-time greats.
  • B. Melvin Booker
    Melvin Booker is a former American professional basketball player and point guard who starred at the University of Missouri and later played in the NBA and overseas.
  • C. Dick Foran
    Dick Foran was an American actor and singer best known for his roles in 1930s and 1940s Westerns and adventure films.
  • D. Byron Pringle
    Byron Pringle is an American professional football wide receiver and return specialist who has played in the NFL, including winning a Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs.
  • E. Rich Gooch
    Rich Gooch is a musician best known as a member of the American rock band Quarterflash.
  • 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_69ca8314cd6c8190a6b8c2a1096e18f3 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe138a94081908e306d22aaa39b24 completed March 31, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce1d9ab3a88190ada7741cf054fc1b completed April 2, 2026, 7:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce203a4c9481909292f540521644cb completed April 2, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce20bcf5b48190b2b60b88566d5d1c completed April 2, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:08 p.m.