Triple

T16146712
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966 TV special) E391802 entity
Predicate writer P1360 FINISHED
Object Irving Phillips
Irving Phillips was an American cartoonist and writer best known for creating the comic strip "The Strange World of Mr. Mum" and contributing to various mid-20th-century television and print humor.
E1196919 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: Irving Phillips | Statement: [How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966 TV special), writer, Irving Phillips]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Irving Phillips
Context triple: [How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966 TV special), writer, Irving Phillips]
  • A. R. O. Phillips
    R. O. Phillips was a notable figure significant enough in local or regional history that Phillips County was named in his honor.
  • B. L. E. Phillips
    L. E. Phillips was an American oilman and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of the Phillips Petroleum Company.
  • C. William Lindsay White
    William Lindsay White was an American journalist, author, and war correspondent known for his reporting during World War II and for continuing the editorial legacy of his father, William Allen White, at the Emporia Gazette.
  • D. Irving Townsend
    Irving Townsend was an American record producer and Columbia Records executive best known for overseeing landmark jazz recordings, including Miles Davis’s "Kind of Blue."
  • E. R. K. Pierson
    R. K. Pierson was a British aeronautical engineer best known for designing the Vickers Wellington bomber used extensively by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
  • 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: Irving Phillips
Triple: [How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966 TV special), writer, Irving Phillips]
Generated description
Irving Phillips was an American cartoonist and writer best known for creating the comic strip "The Strange World of Mr. Mum" and contributing to various mid-20th-century television and print humor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Irving Phillips
Target entity description: Irving Phillips was an American cartoonist and writer best known for creating the comic strip "The Strange World of Mr. Mum" and contributing to various mid-20th-century television and print humor.
  • A. R. O. Phillips
    R. O. Phillips was a notable figure significant enough in local or regional history that Phillips County was named in his honor.
  • B. L. E. Phillips
    L. E. Phillips was an American oilman and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of the Phillips Petroleum Company.
  • C. William Lindsay White
    William Lindsay White was an American journalist, author, and war correspondent known for his reporting during World War II and for continuing the editorial legacy of his father, William Allen White, at the Emporia Gazette.
  • D. Irving Townsend
    Irving Townsend was an American record producer and Columbia Records executive best known for overseeing landmark jazz recordings, including Miles Davis’s "Kind of Blue."
  • E. R. K. Pierson
    R. K. Pierson was a British aeronautical engineer best known for designing the Vickers Wellington bomber used extensively by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
  • 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_69d87f1c65e48190aa2b4c472e9bafc4 completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e21d947e68819081b4b7c757ce71b6 completed April 17, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fff7a7dc3481909f933acd72d6feff completed May 10, 2026, 3:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fff81bb0008190947eeff64dc8eb88 completed May 10, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fff8905ce48190b99f8cc3504efba2 completed May 10, 2026, 3:16 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:01 a.m.