Triple

T17621651
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Gunn E429721 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object J. August Richards
J. August Richards is an American actor best known for his role as Charles Gunn on the television series "Angel."
E1371075 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: J. August Richards | Statement: [Charles Gunn, portrayedBy, J. August Richards]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. August Richards
Context triple: [Charles Gunn, portrayedBy, J. August Richards]
  • A. William Buell Richards
    William Buell Richards was a 19th-century Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician who became the inaugural head of Canada’s Supreme Court.
  • B. George R. Roberts
    George R. Roberts is an American billionaire investor and co-founder of the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), known as a pioneer in leveraged buyouts.
  • C. Eaton L. Dickey
    Eaton L. Dickey was an American diplomat who served as a U.S. ambassador, notably representing the United States in Panama.
  • D. W. T. Reeds
    W. T. Reeds was an individual significant enough in local history that the community of Reeds, Missouri, was named in his honor.
  • E. J. N. Andrews
    J. N. Andrews was a prominent 19th-century Seventh-day Adventist scholar, missionary, and theologian, recognized as one of the denomination’s earliest and most influential leaders.
  • 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: J. August Richards
Triple: [Charles Gunn, portrayedBy, J. August Richards]
Generated description
J. August Richards is an American actor best known for his role as Charles Gunn on the television series "Angel."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. August Richards
Target entity description: J. August Richards is an American actor best known for his role as Charles Gunn on the television series "Angel."
  • A. William Buell Richards
    William Buell Richards was a 19th-century Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician who became the inaugural head of Canada’s Supreme Court.
  • B. George R. Roberts
    George R. Roberts is an American billionaire investor and co-founder of the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), known as a pioneer in leveraged buyouts.
  • C. Eaton L. Dickey
    Eaton L. Dickey was an American diplomat who served as a U.S. ambassador, notably representing the United States in Panama.
  • D. W. T. Reeds
    W. T. Reeds was an individual significant enough in local history that the community of Reeds, Missouri, was named in his honor.
  • E. J. N. Andrews
    J. N. Andrews was a prominent 19th-century Seventh-day Adventist scholar, missionary, and theologian, recognized as one of the denomination’s earliest and most influential leaders.
  • 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_69d889e37f308190a6aa0a69daff86c7 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e46db98c54819088dadec9f6bcc559 completed April 19, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a071bc0308081908f2b98b0dec96ab6 completed May 15, 2026, 1:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a071c8a9dec8190a4fbb88736b73912 completed May 15, 2026, 1:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a071e0e00208190a6e05266d5bc47e2 completed May 15, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:51 a.m.