Triple

T18464009
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pirates of Silicon Valley E451109 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Ed Roberts – J. G. Hertzler
Ed Roberts – J. G. Hertzler is an American actor best known for his character roles in film and television, particularly in science fiction series such as Star Trek.
 E1325538 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: Ed Roberts – J. G. Hertzler | Statement: [Pirates of Silicon Valley, portrayedBy, Ed Roberts – J. G. Hertzler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ed Roberts – J. G. Hertzler
Context triple: [Pirates of Silicon Valley, portrayedBy, Ed Roberts – J. G. Hertzler]
  • A. Fred Roberts
    Fred Roberts is the fictionalized British army officer and editor at the heart of the satirical World War I trench newspaper in the TV drama "The Wipers Times."
  • B. Jack Edwards
    Jack Edwards is known primarily as the son of Austrian-American character actor Snitz Edwards.
  • C. Jack Edwards
    Jack Edwards is one of the children of former U.S. Senator and vice-presidential nominee John Edwards.
  • D. Jack Edwards
    Jack Edwards was a prominent local figure in Alabama, likely a politician or civic leader, after whom the Jack Edwards National Airport in Gulf Shores is named.
  • E. Howard Eddy
    Howard Eddy is a musician associated with the American rock band Grand Funk Railroad.
  • 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: Ed Roberts – J. G. Hertzler
Triple: [Pirates of Silicon Valley, portrayedBy, Ed Roberts – J. G. Hertzler]
Generated description
Ed Roberts – J. G. Hertzler is an American actor best known for his character roles in film and television, particularly in science fiction series such as Star Trek.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ed Roberts – J. G. Hertzler
Target entity description: Ed Roberts – J. G. Hertzler is an American actor best known for his character roles in film and television, particularly in science fiction series such as Star Trek.
  • A. Fred Roberts
    Fred Roberts is the fictionalized British army officer and editor at the heart of the satirical World War I trench newspaper in the TV drama "The Wipers Times."
  • B. Jack Edwards
    Jack Edwards is known primarily as the son of Austrian-American character actor Snitz Edwards.
  • C. Jack Edwards
    Jack Edwards was a prominent local figure in Alabama, likely a politician or civic leader, after whom the Jack Edwards National Airport in Gulf Shores is named.
  • D. Jack Edwards
    Jack Edwards is one of the children of former U.S. Senator and vice-presidential nominee John Edwards.
  • E. Howard Eddy
    Howard Eddy is a musician associated with the American rock band Grand Funk Railroad.
  • 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_69d8d38345688190b565eac2e4cd7935 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e52a8190508190a74b1d3482364905 completed April 19, 2026, 7:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a040fed3690819088907f42096c4227 completed May 13, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0418ed1e0c81909eb7e4555c596afd completed May 13, 2026, 6:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a041961cc04819084631f1ae2d90148 completed May 13, 2026, 6:25 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:33 a.m.