Triple

T18510450
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Great Buck Howard E452325 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Buck Howard
Buck Howard is a once-famous, eccentric mentalist and stage performer whose fading career and larger-than-life personality drive the events of the film "The Great Buck Howard."
E1327142 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: Buck Howard | Statement: [The Great Buck Howard, mainCharacter, Buck Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Buck Howard
Context triple: [The Great Buck Howard, mainCharacter, Buck Howard]
  • A. Buck Houghton
    Buck Houghton was an American television producer best known for his work on the original series of The Twilight Zone.
  • B. Buck Williams
    Buck Williams is a former American professional basketball player and three-time NBA All-Star best known for his rebounding prowess and long career with the New Jersey Nets and Portland Trail Blazers.
  • C. Buck Taylor
    Buck Taylor is an American actor and artist best known for his long-running role as Newly O'Brien on the classic Western television series "Gunsmoke."
  • D. Larry Buckman
    Larry Buckman is a central character in the film and television franchise "Parenthood," portrayed as one of the Buckman family members whose personal struggles and relationships drive much of the story’s emotional core.
  • E. Gil Buckman
    Gil Buckman is the anxious but well-meaning father and central figure in the film "Parenthood," whose struggles with family, career, and personal expectations drive much of the story’s humor and heart.
  • 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: Buck Howard
Triple: [The Great Buck Howard, mainCharacter, Buck Howard]
Generated description
Buck Howard is a once-famous, eccentric mentalist and stage performer whose fading career and larger-than-life personality drive the events of the film "The Great Buck Howard."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Buck Howard
Target entity description: Buck Howard is a once-famous, eccentric mentalist and stage performer whose fading career and larger-than-life personality drive the events of the film "The Great Buck Howard."
  • A. Buck Houghton
    Buck Houghton was an American television producer best known for his work on the original series of The Twilight Zone.
  • B. Buck Williams
    Buck Williams is a former American professional basketball player and three-time NBA All-Star best known for his rebounding prowess and long career with the New Jersey Nets and Portland Trail Blazers.
  • C. Buck Taylor
    Buck Taylor is an American actor and artist best known for his long-running role as Newly O'Brien on the classic Western television series "Gunsmoke."
  • D. Larry Buckman
    Larry Buckman is a central character in the film and television franchise "Parenthood," portrayed as one of the Buckman family members whose personal struggles and relationships drive much of the story’s emotional core.
  • E. Gil Buckman
    Gil Buckman is the anxious but well-meaning father and central figure in the film "Parenthood," whose struggles with family, career, and personal expectations drive much of the story’s humor and heart.
  • 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_69d8d386df84819092355ebb260d848e completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e533457e608190988304bf8bc2db1c completed April 19, 2026, 7:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a04714b31c481909e9aeb26568f23ec completed May 13, 2026, 12:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a047224bc048190ad4b61a91097c96f completed May 13, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0472d592d081908239820ec4af2335 completed May 13, 2026, 12:47 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:36 a.m.