Triple

T9996864
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alan Tudyk E197222 entity
Predicate characterPortrayed P1507 FINISHED
Object Hoban "Wash" Washburne
Hoban "Wash" Washburne is the wisecracking, laid-back pilot of the spaceship Serenity in the science fiction TV series Firefly and its film sequel Serenity.
E834619 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: Hoban "Wash" Washburne | Statement: [Alan Tudyk, characterPortrayed, Hoban "Wash" Washburne]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hoban "Wash" Washburne
Context triple: [Alan Tudyk, characterPortrayed, Hoban "Wash" Washburne]
  • A. Charles "Trip" Tucker III
    Charles "Trip" Tucker III is the chief engineer of the starship Enterprise NX-01 in Star Trek: Enterprise, known for his Southern charm, technical brilliance, and close friendship with Captain Jonathan Archer.
  • B. Captain Malcolm Reynolds
    Captain Malcolm Reynolds is the roguish yet principled spaceship captain and central protagonist of the science-fiction TV series "Firefly" and its film continuation "Serenity."
  • C. Jonathan Archer
    Jonathan Archer is the pioneering Starfleet captain of the starship Enterprise NX-01 in the Star Trek universe, known for leading humanity’s earliest deep-space exploration missions.
  • D. Dean Minerd
    Dean Minerd is a television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the comedy game show "Funny You Should Ask."
  • E. John Anderton
    John Anderton is the troubled chief of a futuristic "Precrime" police unit who becomes a fugitive after being accused of a murder he has yet to commit in the science fiction story Minority Report.
  • 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: Hoban "Wash" Washburne
Triple: [Alan Tudyk, characterPortrayed, Hoban "Wash" Washburne]
Generated description
Hoban "Wash" Washburne is the wisecracking, laid-back pilot of the spaceship Serenity in the science fiction TV series Firefly and its film sequel Serenity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hoban "Wash" Washburne
Target entity description: Hoban "Wash" Washburne is the wisecracking, laid-back pilot of the spaceship Serenity in the science fiction TV series Firefly and its film sequel Serenity.
  • A. Charles "Trip" Tucker III
    Charles "Trip" Tucker III is the chief engineer of the starship Enterprise NX-01 in Star Trek: Enterprise, known for his Southern charm, technical brilliance, and close friendship with Captain Jonathan Archer.
  • B. Captain Malcolm Reynolds
    Captain Malcolm Reynolds is the roguish yet principled spaceship captain and central protagonist of the science-fiction TV series "Firefly" and its film continuation "Serenity."
  • C. Jonathan Archer
    Jonathan Archer is the pioneering Starfleet captain of the starship Enterprise NX-01 in the Star Trek universe, known for leading humanity’s earliest deep-space exploration missions.
  • D. Dean Minerd
    Dean Minerd is a television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the comedy game show "Funny You Should Ask."
  • E. John Anderton
    John Anderton is the troubled chief of a futuristic "Precrime" police unit who becomes a fugitive after being accused of a murder he has yet to commit in the science fiction story Minority Report.
  • 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_69ca82f3b61c81908ecc2c1c96dbc2e4 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdcb9af6a88190942cc4991bd373c1 completed April 2, 2026, 1:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2583bd6948190b15a97187e81d958 completed April 5, 2026, 12:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2594b5e5081908f7cc4af4d10b4a8 completed April 5, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d25a30ad98819084dcd305e709c34d completed April 5, 2026, 12:48 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:51 p.m.