Triple

T18231880
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Monkees (TV series) E436560 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Mike Nesmith (character)
Mike Nesmith is the wool-hat-wearing, dry-witted guitarist character from the 1960s musical sitcom "The Monkees," loosely based on and portrayed by musician Michael Nesmith.
E1313935 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: Mike Nesmith (character) | Statement: [The Monkees (TV series), featuresCharacter, Mike Nesmith (character)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mike Nesmith (character)
Context triple: [The Monkees (TV series), featuresCharacter, Mike Nesmith (character)]
  • A. Dave McFly
    Dave McFly is a minor character in the "Back to the Future" film series, known as Marty McFly's older brother who appears in altered timelines reflecting changes to the McFly family's future.
  • B. Dobie Gillis
    Dobie Gillis is a fictional American teenager best known as the charming, often lovestruck protagonist of Max Shulman’s stories and the 1950s–60s TV series "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis."
  • C. Johnny Messner
    Johnny Messner is an American actor known for his tough-guy roles in action films and television series such as "Tears of the Sun" and "Spartan."
  • D. Shaggy Rogers
    Shaggy Rogers is the lanky, perpetually hungry, and easily frightened best friend of Scooby-Doo from the long-running Scooby-Doo animated franchise.
  • E. Phineas J. Whoopee
    Phineas J. Whoopee is a knowledgeable, eccentric walrus character from the animated series "Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales," known for explaining facts and solving problems with his "3-D BB" blackboard.
  • 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: Mike Nesmith (character)
Triple: [The Monkees (TV series), featuresCharacter, Mike Nesmith (character)]
Generated description
Mike Nesmith is the wool-hat-wearing, dry-witted guitarist character from the 1960s musical sitcom "The Monkees," loosely based on and portrayed by musician Michael Nesmith.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mike Nesmith (character)
Target entity description: Mike Nesmith is the wool-hat-wearing, dry-witted guitarist character from the 1960s musical sitcom "The Monkees," loosely based on and portrayed by musician Michael Nesmith.
  • A. Dave McFly
    Dave McFly is a minor character in the "Back to the Future" film series, known as Marty McFly's older brother who appears in altered timelines reflecting changes to the McFly family's future.
  • B. Dobie Gillis
    Dobie Gillis is a fictional American teenager best known as the charming, often lovestruck protagonist of Max Shulman’s stories and the 1950s–60s TV series "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis."
  • C. Johnny Messner
    Johnny Messner is an American actor known for his tough-guy roles in action films and television series such as "Tears of the Sun" and "Spartan."
  • D. Shaggy Rogers
    Shaggy Rogers is the lanky, perpetually hungry, and easily frightened best friend of Scooby-Doo from the long-running Scooby-Doo animated franchise.
  • E. Phineas J. Whoopee
    Phineas J. Whoopee is a knowledgeable, eccentric walrus character from the animated series "Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales," known for explaining facts and solving problems with his "3-D BB" blackboard.
  • 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_69e4f4b3495881909f2a3f3a8db43792 completed April 19, 2026, 3:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03ac6935a881908fe1d0a62cc354fc completed May 12, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03ad67e85c81909759b40b9dfd2d12 completed May 12, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03aede6ea481908bb9acdb2ff17e9a completed May 12, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:33 a.m.