Triple

T13194595
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alan Hale Jr. E314078 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object MacKahan
MacKahan is the family surname of American actor Alan Hale Jr., best known for playing the Skipper on the television series "Gilligan's Island."
E1027687 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: MacKahan | Statement: [Alan Hale Jr., familyName, MacKahan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: MacKahan
Context triple: [Alan Hale Jr., familyName, MacKahan]
  • A. McNair
    McNair is a Scottish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals, including American physicist and NASA astronaut Ronald McNair.
  • B. Walter Harper
    Walter Harper was an Alaska Native mountaineer best known for being the first person to reach the summit of Denali, North America’s highest peak.
  • C. Tom Rothrock
    Tom Rothrock is an American record producer and musician known for his work with artists such as James Blunt, Beck, and Elliott Smith.
  • D. Dewey Finn
    Dewey Finn is an enthusiastic, slacker musician who poses as a substitute teacher and forms a rock band with his students in the comedy film "School of Rock."
  • E. Danny Cahill
    Danny Cahill is an American reality television personality best known as a former contestant and winner on the weight-loss competition show "The Biggest Loser."
  • 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: MacKahan
Triple: [Alan Hale Jr., familyName, MacKahan]
Generated description
MacKahan is the family surname of American actor Alan Hale Jr., best known for playing the Skipper on the television series "Gilligan's Island."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: MacKahan
Target entity description: MacKahan is the family surname of American actor Alan Hale Jr., best known for playing the Skipper on the television series "Gilligan's Island."
  • A. McNair
    McNair is a Scottish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals, including American physicist and NASA astronaut Ronald McNair.
  • B. Walter Harper
    Walter Harper was an Alaska Native mountaineer best known for being the first person to reach the summit of Denali, North America’s highest peak.
  • C. Tom Rothrock
    Tom Rothrock is an American record producer and musician known for his work with artists such as James Blunt, Beck, and Elliott Smith.
  • D. Dewey Finn
    Dewey Finn is an enthusiastic, slacker musician who poses as a substitute teacher and forms a rock band with his students in the comedy film "School of Rock."
  • E. Danny Cahill
    Danny Cahill is an American reality television personality best known as a former contestant and winner on the weight-loss competition show "The Biggest Loser."
  • 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_69d806ae1e08819090d95bfe1538cc17 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98c6158e4819082c8ad75b4dfdd90 completed April 10, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6f600f7a08190bcdd80d5563517c3 completed May 3, 2026, 7:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6fa2e76fc819095f9a7e83189283c completed May 3, 2026, 7:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6fb52f82c81909dcec658c7f58ec7 completed May 3, 2026, 7:37 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:16 p.m.