Triple

T9280884
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Last Week Tonight with John Oliver E223062 entity
Predicate composer P1361 FINISHED
Object Tom Hanks (theme performer credit often parodied)
Tom Hanks is an acclaimed American actor and filmmaker known for his versatile performances in films such as "Forrest Gump," "Saving Private Ryan," and "Cast Away."
E789899 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: Tom Hanks (theme performer credit often parodied) | Statement: [Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, composer, Tom Hanks (theme performer credit often parodied)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Hanks (theme performer credit often parodied)
Context triple: [Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, composer, Tom Hanks (theme performer credit often parodied)]
  • A. Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker
    Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker refers to Hanks’s portrayal of Elvis Presley’s controversial longtime manager in the 2022 biographical film "Elvis."
  • B. Mike Douglas (singing voice)
    Mike Douglas (singing voice) is the vocalist who provided the singing voice for Prince Charming in Disney’s classic animated film "Cinderella."
  • C. Jim Varney
    Jim Varney was an American actor and comedian best known for portraying the bumbling yet lovable character Ernest P. Worrell in a series of films and commercials.
  • D. Tom Hanks as Scott Turner
    Tom Hanks as Scott Turner is the uptight, by-the-book small-town detective he portrays in the 1989 buddy-cop comedy "Turner & Hooch," whose life is upended by partnering with a rambunctious dog.
  • E. Tom Kenny
    Tom Kenny is an American voice actor and comedian best known for voicing the title character in the animated series "SpongeBob SquarePants."
  • 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: Tom Hanks (theme performer credit often parodied)
Triple: [Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, composer, Tom Hanks (theme performer credit often parodied)]
Generated description
Tom Hanks is an acclaimed American actor and filmmaker known for his versatile performances in films such as "Forrest Gump," "Saving Private Ryan," and "Cast Away."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Hanks (theme performer credit often parodied)
Target entity description: Tom Hanks is an acclaimed American actor and filmmaker known for his versatile performances in films such as "Forrest Gump," "Saving Private Ryan," and "Cast Away."
  • A. Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker
    Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker refers to Hanks’s portrayal of Elvis Presley’s controversial longtime manager in the 2022 biographical film "Elvis."
  • B. Mike Douglas (singing voice)
    Mike Douglas (singing voice) is the vocalist who provided the singing voice for Prince Charming in Disney’s classic animated film "Cinderella."
  • C. Jim Varney
    Jim Varney was an American actor and comedian best known for portraying the bumbling yet lovable character Ernest P. Worrell in a series of films and commercials.
  • D. Tom Hanks as Scott Turner
    Tom Hanks as Scott Turner is the uptight, by-the-book small-town detective he portrays in the 1989 buddy-cop comedy "Turner & Hooch," whose life is upended by partnering with a rambunctious dog.
  • E. Tom Kenny
    Tom Kenny is an American voice actor and comedian best known for voicing the title character in the animated series "SpongeBob SquarePants."
  • 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_69ca842123588190b3f2e1a69037d141 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd07cd9a1c8190af0521baa428ce10 completed April 1, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0b209a5b48190a7e6d983bcda5363 completed April 4, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0b3548dd881908adadf4a728cec50 completed April 4, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0b4083da88190ab996ee53bf5ff16 completed April 4, 2026, 6:47 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:34 p.m.