Triple

T9794079
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dennis Weaver E237675 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object William Dennis Weaver
William Dennis Weaver was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Gunsmoke" and "McCloud," as well as the film "Duel."
E820938 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: William Dennis Weaver | Statement: [Dennis Weaver, birthName, William Dennis Weaver]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Dennis Weaver
Context triple: [Dennis Weaver, birthName, William Dennis Weaver]
  • A. Edward R. Rooney
    Edward R. Rooney is the strict, bumbling high school principal and main adult antagonist in the 1986 film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
  • B. James Scott Rockford
    James Scott Rockford is the fictional private investigator protagonist of the 1970s television series "The Rockford Files," portrayed by actor James Garner.
  • C. William Todd
    William Todd was the designer of the original Bear Flag that became the basis for the modern state flag of California.
  • D. Richard Allen York
    Richard Allen York was an American actor best known for originating the role of Darrin Stephens on the classic television sitcom "Bewitched."
  • E. Joe Foster
    Joe Foster is a British entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the global sportswear brand Reebok.
  • 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: William Dennis Weaver
Triple: [Dennis Weaver, birthName, William Dennis Weaver]
Generated description
William Dennis Weaver was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Gunsmoke" and "McCloud," as well as the film "Duel."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Dennis Weaver
Target entity description: William Dennis Weaver was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Gunsmoke" and "McCloud," as well as the film "Duel."
  • A. Edward R. Rooney
    Edward R. Rooney is the strict, bumbling high school principal and main adult antagonist in the 1986 film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
  • B. James Scott Rockford
    James Scott Rockford is the fictional private investigator protagonist of the 1970s television series "The Rockford Files," portrayed by actor James Garner.
  • C. William Todd
    William Todd was the designer of the original Bear Flag that became the basis for the modern state flag of California.
  • D. Richard Allen York
    Richard Allen York was an American actor best known for originating the role of Darrin Stephens on the classic television sitcom "Bewitched."
  • E. Joe Foster
    Joe Foster is a British entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the global sportswear brand Reebok.
  • 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_69ca84dc04488190b9c91193976c0960 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cda347b6bc8190a99b7dec1650cd46 completed April 1, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1c4368da88190a70e93ec4d6bef93 completed April 5, 2026, 2:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1c4a087208190b81ae9d40de08ab9 completed April 5, 2026, 2:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1c4fe71308190ac08e30c98611ed6 completed April 5, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:28 p.m.