Triple

T13102846
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Grace Under Fire E310761 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Dave Thomas
Dave Thomas is a Canadian actor, comedian, and writer best known as a founding cast member of SCTV and for his work in film and television comedy.
E1019191 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: Dave Thomas | Statement: [Grace Under Fire, starring, Dave Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dave Thomas
Context triple: [Grace Under Fire, starring, Dave Thomas]
  • A. Dave Thomas
    Dave Thomas is a prominent software developer and author best known as a co-author of "The Pragmatic Programmer" and an original signatory of the Agile Manifesto.
  • B. Richard McDonald
    Richard McDonald was an American entrepreneur who, with his brother Maurice, created the original McDonald’s restaurant concept that evolved into the global fast-food chain.
  • C. S. Truett Cathy
    S. Truett Cathy was an American entrepreneur and devout Southern Baptist best known as the founder of the Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant chain, which he built around Christian principles and a focus on customer service.
  • D. Larry "Pinto" Kroger
    Larry "Pinto" Kroger is a naive college freshman who becomes a central member of the misfit Delta Tau Chi fraternity in the comedy film *Animal House*.
  • E. Danny Saunders
    Danny Saunders is a brilliant Hasidic Jewish teenager whose complex relationship with his father and best friend explores faith, identity, and tradition in Chaim Potok’s novel "The Chosen."
  • 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: Dave Thomas
Triple: [Grace Under Fire, starring, Dave Thomas]
Generated description
Dave Thomas is a Canadian actor, comedian, and writer best known as a founding cast member of SCTV and for his work in film and television comedy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dave Thomas
Target entity description: Dave Thomas is a Canadian actor, comedian, and writer best known as a founding cast member of SCTV and for his work in film and television comedy.
  • A. Dave Thomas
    Dave Thomas is a prominent software developer and author best known as a co-author of "The Pragmatic Programmer" and an original signatory of the Agile Manifesto.
  • B. Richard McDonald
    Richard McDonald was an American entrepreneur who, with his brother Maurice, created the original McDonald’s restaurant concept that evolved into the global fast-food chain.
  • C. S. Truett Cathy
    S. Truett Cathy was an American entrepreneur and devout Southern Baptist best known as the founder of the Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant chain, which he built around Christian principles and a focus on customer service.
  • D. Larry "Pinto" Kroger
    Larry "Pinto" Kroger is a naive college freshman who becomes a central member of the misfit Delta Tau Chi fraternity in the comedy film *Animal House*.
  • E. Danny Saunders
    Danny Saunders is a brilliant Hasidic Jewish teenager whose complex relationship with his father and best friend explores faith, identity, and tradition in Chaim Potok’s novel "The Chosen."
  • 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_69d806a872d08190a329806f8ff30df4 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98153255c8190b6ab64ac0c4716f8 completed April 10, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6d61d88888190bfc631b759f14598 completed May 3, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6d7123cc48190985360c3ab76a6d0 completed May 3, 2026, 5:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6d7bc235481909799b57e44f0aef2 completed May 3, 2026, 5:06 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:04 p.m.