Triple

T8654780
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Franchot Tone E205386 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Barbara Payton
Barbara Payton was an American film actress of the 1940s and 1950s, known for her tumultuous personal life and brief but notable Hollywood career.
E772317 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: Barbara Payton | Statement: [Franchot Tone, spouse, Barbara Payton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barbara Payton
Context triple: [Franchot Tone, spouse, Barbara Payton]
  • A. Antoinette Pettyjohn
    Antoinette Pettyjohn is best known as the wife of the late American actor Yaphet Kotto.
  • B. Denetta Lyles
    Denetta Lyles is known as the former wife of Rodney King, whose 1991 beating by Los Angeles police officers and the subsequent acquittals sparked the 1992 LA riots.
  • C. Valarie Pettiford
    Valarie Pettiford is an American actress, singer, and dancer known for her work on stage, television, and film, including roles in productions such as the musical "Fosse" and the TV series "Half & Half."
  • D. Carmelita Lindsay
    Carmelita Lindsay is the fiery, comedic Latina protagonist of the classic film series "The Mexican Spitfire."
  • E. Barbara Pierce
    Barbara Pierce is the sister of American actor and director David Hyde Pierce, known for his role as Niles Crane on the television series "Frasier."
  • 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: Barbara Payton
Triple: [Franchot Tone, spouse, Barbara Payton]
Generated description
Barbara Payton was an American film actress of the 1940s and 1950s, known for her tumultuous personal life and brief but notable Hollywood career.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barbara Payton
Target entity description: Barbara Payton was an American film actress of the 1940s and 1950s, known for her tumultuous personal life and brief but notable Hollywood career.
  • A. Antoinette Pettyjohn
    Antoinette Pettyjohn is best known as the wife of the late American actor Yaphet Kotto.
  • B. Denetta Lyles
    Denetta Lyles is known as the former wife of Rodney King, whose 1991 beating by Los Angeles police officers and the subsequent acquittals sparked the 1992 LA riots.
  • C. Valarie Pettiford
    Valarie Pettiford is an American actress, singer, and dancer known for her work on stage, television, and film, including roles in productions such as the musical "Fosse" and the TV series "Half & Half."
  • D. Carmelita Lindsay
    Carmelita Lindsay is the fiery, comedic Latina protagonist of the classic film series "The Mexican Spitfire."
  • E. Barbara Pierce
    Barbara Pierce is the sister of American actor and director David Hyde Pierce, known for his role as Niles Crane on the television series "Frasier."
  • 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_69ca8350897c819086cde7596fbe5fe7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc48432568819093b9a867b4f62b78 completed March 31, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfdb7875448190a2478cbb623c31e6 completed April 3, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfdc384884819083334642471c274a completed April 3, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfdc99a59c8190b509f66fa656bd77 completed April 3, 2026, 3:28 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:29 p.m.