Triple

T12513059
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bob Balaban E299127 entity
Predicate hasRelative P367 FINISHED
Object Barney Balaban
Barney Balaban was a prominent American film executive who served as president of Paramount Pictures and helped shape Hollywood’s studio era.
E989988 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: Barney Balaban | Statement: [Bob Balaban, hasRelative, Barney Balaban]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barney Balaban
Context triple: [Bob Balaban, hasRelative, Barney Balaban]
  • A. Bob Balaban
    Bob Balaban is an American actor, director, and producer known for his character roles in films by directors like Steven Spielberg and Wes Anderson, as well as for his work in television and theater.
  • B. Barry Ulanov
    Barry Ulanov was an American jazz critic, writer, and editor known for his influential work on modern jazz and its leading musicians in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Louis Garfinkle
    Louis Garfinkle was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed Vietnam War drama film "The Deer Hunter."
  • D. Barry Leiba
    Barry Leiba is an Internet standards expert and longtime IETF contributor known for his work on email and messaging technologies and authorship of multiple RFCs.
  • E. Hyman Bloom
    Hyman Bloom was a Latvian-born American painter known for his expressive, often mystical figurative works and his influential role in the mid-20th-century Boston Expressionist movement.
  • 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: Barney Balaban
Triple: [Bob Balaban, hasRelative, Barney Balaban]
Generated description
Barney Balaban was a prominent American film executive who served as president of Paramount Pictures and helped shape Hollywood’s studio era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barney Balaban
Target entity description: Barney Balaban was a prominent American film executive who served as president of Paramount Pictures and helped shape Hollywood’s studio era.
  • A. Bob Balaban
    Bob Balaban is an American actor, director, and producer known for his character roles in films by directors like Steven Spielberg and Wes Anderson, as well as for his work in television and theater.
  • B. Barry Ulanov
    Barry Ulanov was an American jazz critic, writer, and editor known for his influential work on modern jazz and its leading musicians in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Louis Garfinkle
    Louis Garfinkle was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed Vietnam War drama film "The Deer Hunter."
  • D. Barry Leiba
    Barry Leiba is an Internet standards expert and longtime IETF contributor known for his work on email and messaging technologies and authorship of multiple RFCs.
  • E. Hyman Bloom
    Hyman Bloom was a Latvian-born American painter known for his expressive, often mystical figurative works and his influential role in the mid-20th-century Boston Expressionist movement.
  • 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_69d6ada4cd388190ae3bbf83ff87057a completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9541e752c8190bf12d2b5a37b53df completed April 10, 2026, 7:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f655745cec8190b5582eb4a339d501 completed May 2, 2026, 7:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6566dccc0819085e059c7b0288f6c completed May 2, 2026, 7:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f65799ca588190b9f7a07f5c1a842c completed May 2, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:57 p.m.