Triple

T9795274
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Midnight Sun E237701 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Tom Reese
Tom Reese was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Westerns and television series from the 1950s through the 1980s.
E822319 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 Reese | Statement: [The Midnight Sun, castMember, Tom Reese]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Reese
Context triple: [The Midnight Sun, castMember, Tom Reese]
  • A. Graeme Wood
    Graeme Wood is an Australian entrepreneur best known as the founder of the online travel booking company Wotif.com.
  • B. Gareth Porter
    Gareth Porter is an American investigative journalist and historian known for his critical reporting on U.S. foreign policy and national security issues.
  • C. David Brock
    David Brock is an American political operative and media figure known for his transformation from conservative journalist to prominent liberal activist and founder of the media watchdog group Media Matters for America.
  • D. Tom Engelhardt
    Tom Engelhardt is an American editor, essayist, and critic best known for founding and running the political commentary site TomDispatch, where he writes extensively on U.S. foreign policy, militarism, and empire.
  • E. John Nichols
    John Nichols is an American local politician serving as the mayor of College Station, Texas.
  • 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 Reese
Triple: [The Midnight Sun, castMember, Tom Reese]
Generated description
Tom Reese was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Westerns and television series from the 1950s through the 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Reese
Target entity description: Tom Reese was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Westerns and television series from the 1950s through the 1980s.
  • A. Graeme Wood
    Graeme Wood is an Australian entrepreneur best known as the founder of the online travel booking company Wotif.com.
  • B. Gareth Porter
    Gareth Porter is an American investigative journalist and historian known for his critical reporting on U.S. foreign policy and national security issues.
  • C. David Brock
    David Brock is an American political operative and media figure known for his transformation from conservative journalist to prominent liberal activist and founder of the media watchdog group Media Matters for America.
  • D. Tom Engelhardt
    Tom Engelhardt is an American editor, essayist, and critic best known for founding and running the political commentary site TomDispatch, where he writes extensively on U.S. foreign policy, militarism, and empire.
  • E. John Nichols
    John Nichols is an American local politician serving as the mayor of College Station, Texas.
  • 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_69cda34916dc8190acef2ba003e56a33 completed April 1, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1c43bccfc81909b940b180fe26626 completed April 5, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1c5e6a2f881908666328ce72a95ed completed April 5, 2026, 2:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1c68311008190b2d5b8a2fadfba69 completed April 5, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:28 p.m.