Triple

T17216517
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Builders E417865 entity
Predicate featuresActor P15562 FINISHED
Object Ballard Berkeley
Ballard Berkeley was a British actor best known for his role as the bumbling Major Gowen in the classic sitcom "Fawlty Towers."
E1258297 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: Ballard Berkeley | Statement: [The Builders, featuresActor, Ballard Berkeley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ballard Berkeley
Context triple: [The Builders, featuresActor, Ballard Berkeley]
  • A. Berkley
    Berkley is a small rural town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, known for its quiet residential character and proximity to the Taunton River.
  • B. Berkley
    Berkley is a surname most notably associated with American actress Elizabeth Berkley, known for her roles in "Saved by the Bell" and "Showgirls."
  • C. Ballard
    Ballard is a surname most notably associated with Robert Ballard, the American oceanographer who discovered the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
  • D. Nevin
    Nevin is a surname most notably associated with Phil Nevin, a former Major League Baseball player and manager.
  • E. Oaklands
    Oaklands is a small rural town in New South Wales, Australia, situated within the Riverina region.
  • 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: Ballard Berkeley
Triple: [The Builders, featuresActor, Ballard Berkeley]
Generated description
Ballard Berkeley was a British actor best known for his role as the bumbling Major Gowen in the classic sitcom "Fawlty Towers."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ballard Berkeley
Target entity description: Ballard Berkeley was a British actor best known for his role as the bumbling Major Gowen in the classic sitcom "Fawlty Towers."
  • A. Berkley
    Berkley is a small rural town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, known for its quiet residential character and proximity to the Taunton River.
  • B. Berkley
    Berkley is a surname most notably associated with American actress Elizabeth Berkley, known for her roles in "Saved by the Bell" and "Showgirls."
  • C. Ballard
    Ballard is a surname most notably associated with Robert Ballard, the American oceanographer who discovered the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
  • D. Nevin
    Nevin is a surname most notably associated with Phil Nevin, a former Major League Baseball player and manager.
  • E. Oaklands
    Oaklands is a small rural town in New South Wales, Australia, situated within the Riverina region.
  • 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_69d886d779488190b131369541c04e7d completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e42dda6e6c81908dd96f653cd2cba0 completed April 19, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01675381a0819094ed04eac636440b completed May 11, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a016b8609dc8190bfd3e1b6ff715d65 completed May 11, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a016c5018e48190974c124c3433bcc6 completed May 11, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:38 a.m.