Triple

T16331361
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Crashing Towers E396559 entity
Predicate featuresActor P15562 FINISHED
Object Herman Hack
Herman Hack was an American character actor and prolific background performer best known for his numerous uncredited roles in Western films and serials during the mid-20th century.
E1232283 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: Herman Hack | Statement: [Crashing Towers, featuresActor, Herman Hack]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herman Hack
Context triple: [Crashing Towers, featuresActor, Herman Hack]
  • A. Holland Wagenbach
    Holland Wagenbach is the full given name of the fictional character commonly known as Dutch Wagenbach from the television series "The Shield."
  • B. Herman Saftleven
    Herman Saftleven was a 17th-century Dutch painter and draughtsman known for his detailed river landscapes and topographical views.
  • C. Otto Schenk
    Otto Schenk is an Austrian actor, director, and comedian renowned for his work in theater and opera, particularly at the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera.
  • D. Walter Trarbach
    Walter Trarbach is a theatrical sound designer known for his work on major Broadway productions, including SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical.
  • E. Leo Klier
    Leo Klier was an American professional basketball player and two-time All-American at Notre Dame who played in the early years of the Basketball Association of America (BAA).
  • 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: Herman Hack
Triple: [Crashing Towers, featuresActor, Herman Hack]
Generated description
Herman Hack was an American character actor and prolific background performer best known for his numerous uncredited roles in Western films and serials during the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herman Hack
Target entity description: Herman Hack was an American character actor and prolific background performer best known for his numerous uncredited roles in Western films and serials during the mid-20th century.
  • A. Holland Wagenbach
    Holland Wagenbach is the full given name of the fictional character commonly known as Dutch Wagenbach from the television series "The Shield."
  • B. Herman Saftleven
    Herman Saftleven was a 17th-century Dutch painter and draughtsman known for his detailed river landscapes and topographical views.
  • C. Otto Schenk
    Otto Schenk is an Austrian actor, director, and comedian renowned for his work in theater and opera, particularly at the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera.
  • D. Walter Trarbach
    Walter Trarbach is a theatrical sound designer known for his work on major Broadway productions, including SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical.
  • E. Leo Klier
    Leo Klier was an American professional basketball player and two-time All-American at Notre Dame who played in the early years of the Basketball Association of America (BAA).
  • 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_69d87f255b788190a400eba031dd85d8 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e2c4dfd9688190a749e48ebc055baf completed April 17, 2026, 11:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00a5047a7c8190bac0ac9888547d16 completed May 10, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00a685753881908c3fef10823ce569 completed May 10, 2026, 3:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00a7174f5c8190891ddd180c50aee3 completed May 10, 2026, 3:41 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:07 a.m.