Triple

T9983792
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The New WKRP in Cincinnati E196515 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Les Nessman
Les Nessman is a bumbling, earnest news reporter character best known from the WKRP in Cincinnati television sitcom franchise.
E834246 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: Les Nessman | Statement: [The New WKRP in Cincinnati, featuresCharacter, Les Nessman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Les Nessman
Context triple: [The New WKRP in Cincinnati, featuresCharacter, Les Nessman]
  • A. Max Nanasy
    Max Nanasy is a software engineer and writer known for contributions to programming tools and documentation, including work related to JSON5.
  • B. Leslie
    Leslie is a character featured in the work "Seascape."
  • C. Leslie
    Leslie is a Scottish noble family name historically associated with titles such as Lord Newark.
  • D. Leslie
    Leslie is the given name of Leslie R. Groves Jr., the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officer who directed the Manhattan Project during World War II.
  • E. Leslie
    Leslie is the given name of American actress and singer Leslie Uggams, known for her work on stage, television, and film.
  • 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: Les Nessman
Triple: [The New WKRP in Cincinnati, featuresCharacter, Les Nessman]
Generated description
Les Nessman is a bumbling, earnest news reporter character best known from the WKRP in Cincinnati television sitcom franchise.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Les Nessman
Target entity description: Les Nessman is a bumbling, earnest news reporter character best known from the WKRP in Cincinnati television sitcom franchise.
  • A. Max Nanasy
    Max Nanasy is a software engineer and writer known for contributions to programming tools and documentation, including work related to JSON5.
  • B. Leslie
    Leslie is a character featured in the work "Seascape."
  • C. Leslie
    Leslie is a Scottish noble family name historically associated with titles such as Lord Newark.
  • D. Leslie
    Leslie is the given name of Leslie R. Groves Jr., the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officer who directed the Manhattan Project during World War II.
  • E. Leslie
    Leslie is the given name of American actress and singer Leslie Uggams, known for her work on stage, television, and film.
  • 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_69ca82efbce081908179b4b9c65096eb completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb8bdc0388190bbbd4bdc5ac3adec completed April 2, 2026, 12:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d257f3c59481909b90896be0f3a870 completed April 5, 2026, 12:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d25889b0f08190a28c5401417fe3cc completed April 5, 2026, 12:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d25981db3c8190b7b4935cdcc1fe1c completed April 5, 2026, 12:45 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:49 p.m.