Triple

T8685183
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Hucksters E206138 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object G. Raymond Nye
G. Raymond Nye was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his rugged features and frequent roles in Westerns and melodramas.
E754293 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: G. Raymond Nye | Statement: [The Hucksters, starring, G. Raymond Nye]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: G. Raymond Nye
Context triple: [The Hucksters, starring, G. Raymond Nye]
  • A. Bernard A. Newcomb
    Bernard A. Newcomb is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the online brokerage firm E-Trade.
  • B. Gérard F. Gilmore
    Gérard F. Gilmore is a British astronomer known for his influential work on the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way galaxy.
  • C. George E. Smith
    George E. Smith is an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-inventing the charge-coupled device (CCD), a technology fundamental to digital imaging.
  • D. John B. Purcell
    John B. Purcell was a 19th-century American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Cincinnati and was known for his public debates defending Catholic doctrine.
  • E. Frederick H. Gillett
    Frederick H. Gillett was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
  • 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: G. Raymond Nye
Triple: [The Hucksters, starring, G. Raymond Nye]
Generated description
G. Raymond Nye was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his rugged features and frequent roles in Westerns and melodramas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: G. Raymond Nye
Target entity description: G. Raymond Nye was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his rugged features and frequent roles in Westerns and melodramas.
  • A. Bernard A. Newcomb
    Bernard A. Newcomb is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the online brokerage firm E-Trade.
  • B. Gérard F. Gilmore
    Gérard F. Gilmore is a British astronomer known for his influential work on the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way galaxy.
  • C. George E. Smith
    George E. Smith is an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-inventing the charge-coupled device (CCD), a technology fundamental to digital imaging.
  • D. John B. Purcell
    John B. Purcell was a 19th-century American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Cincinnati and was known for his public debates defending Catholic doctrine.
  • E. Frederick H. Gillett
    Frederick H. Gillett was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
  • 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_69ca835379688190aa06b9d98e684d58 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc4aeae740819099093906ccc5f640 completed March 31, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf427fb1988190ab9fd810423ced84 completed April 3, 2026, 4:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf43bd0f8c8190be2f7dc86f1e76e1 completed April 3, 2026, 4:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf444c9cb08190a37f34faa4a3458d completed April 3, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:32 p.m.