Triple

T971540
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Saving Mr. Banks E20954 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object B. J. Novak
B. J. Novak is an American actor, writer, comedian, and director best known for his work on the U.S. version of "The Office."
 E146718 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: B. J. Novak | Statement: [Saving Mr. Banks, castMember, B. J. Novak]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: B. J. Novak
Context triple: [Saving Mr. Banks, castMember, B. J. Novak]
  • A. Joel McHale
    Joel McHale is an American actor, comedian, and television host best known for leading the satirical series "The Soup" and starring on the sitcom "Community."
  • B. Bill Hader
    Bill Hader is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and for creating and starring in the dark comedy series Barry.
  • C. Keegan-Michael Key
    Keegan-Michael Key is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known as co-creator and star of the sketch series "Key & Peele" and for his extensive work in film and television comedy.
  • D. Jason Sudeikis
    Jason Sudeikis is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and for creating and starring in the acclaimed series "Ted Lasso."
  • E. Glenn Howerton
    Glenn Howerton is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for co-creating and starring as Dennis Reynolds on the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
  • 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: B. J. Novak
Triple: [Saving Mr. Banks, castMember, B. J. Novak]
Generated description
B. J. Novak is an American actor, writer, comedian, and director best known for his work on the U.S. version of "The Office."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: B. J. Novak
Target entity description: B. J. Novak is an American actor, writer, comedian, and director best known for his work on the U.S. version of "The Office."
  • A. Joel McHale
    Joel McHale is an American actor, comedian, and television host best known for leading the satirical series "The Soup" and starring on the sitcom "Community."
  • B. Bill Hader
    Bill Hader is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and for creating and starring in the dark comedy series Barry.
  • C. Keegan-Michael Key
    Keegan-Michael Key is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known as co-creator and star of the sketch series "Key & Peele" and for his extensive work in film and television comedy.
  • D. Jason Sudeikis
    Jason Sudeikis is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and for creating and starring in the acclaimed series "Ted Lasso."
  • E. Glenn Howerton
    Glenn Howerton is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for co-creating and starring as Dennis Reynolds on the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
  • 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_69a493b33d2c81909c52c369d3ca8436 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b44aa6088190a90c44a8f694ec41 completed March 1, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aca2d3cb588190882a480c18147384 completed March 7, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aca556501c8190abd8ae1cd679919a completed March 7, 2026, 10:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aca7753da0819098e50ae51e967eb5 completed March 7, 2026, 10:32 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.