Triple

T18220744
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Night Court E436295 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Selma Hacker – Selma Diamond
Selma Diamond was a Canadian-born American comedic actress and writer best known for her role as the sharp-tongued bailiff Selma Hacker on the sitcom "Night Court."
E1313277 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: Selma Hacker – Selma Diamond | Statement: [Night Court, portrayedBy, Selma Hacker – Selma Diamond]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Selma Hacker – Selma Diamond
Context triple: [Night Court, portrayedBy, Selma Hacker – Selma Diamond]
  • A. Barbara Diamond
    Barbara Diamond is best known as the wife of acclaimed Romanian-American screenwriter I. A. L. Diamond, who co-wrote many classic films with director Billy Wilder.
  • B. Donna Diamond
    Donna Diamond is an American illustrator best known for creating evocative cover art for classic children's and young adult novels.
  • C. Margie Wright Diamond
    Margie Wright Diamond is a collegiate softball stadium in Fresno, California, serving as the home field for Fresno State University's softball program.
  • D. Bathsheba Zylberman
    Bathsheba Zylberman was the mother of Nobel Prize–winning Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and a formative influence from his traditional Jewish family background.
  • E. Shulamith
    Shulamith is an experimental electronic pop album by Poliça, noted for its atmospheric production and politically charged themes.
  • 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: Selma Hacker – Selma Diamond
Triple: [Night Court, portrayedBy, Selma Hacker – Selma Diamond]
Generated description
Selma Diamond was a Canadian-born American comedic actress and writer best known for her role as the sharp-tongued bailiff Selma Hacker on the sitcom "Night Court."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Selma Hacker – Selma Diamond
Target entity description: Selma Diamond was a Canadian-born American comedic actress and writer best known for her role as the sharp-tongued bailiff Selma Hacker on the sitcom "Night Court."
  • A. Barbara Diamond
    Barbara Diamond is best known as the wife of acclaimed Romanian-American screenwriter I. A. L. Diamond, who co-wrote many classic films with director Billy Wilder.
  • B. Donna Diamond
    Donna Diamond is an American illustrator best known for creating evocative cover art for classic children's and young adult novels.
  • C. Margie Wright Diamond
    Margie Wright Diamond is a collegiate softball stadium in Fresno, California, serving as the home field for Fresno State University's softball program.
  • D. Bathsheba Zylberman
    Bathsheba Zylberman was the mother of Nobel Prize–winning Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and a formative influence from his traditional Jewish family background.
  • E. Shulamith
    Shulamith is an experimental electronic pop album by Poliça, noted for its atmospheric production and politically charged themes.
  • 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_69d8b9103a8081908bbb0836fef10efd completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4e47b5bfc819085c5935c08361ba9 completed April 19, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a039f1b982881909bbff3ce2c560c98 completed May 12, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03a31626fc8190b68f8cdb780debed completed May 12, 2026, 10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03a37d8658819094a2b24259af9f29 completed May 12, 2026, 10:02 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:32 a.m.