Triple

T18634821
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Flynn E455517 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Brent Barrett
Brent Barrett is an American musical theatre actor and singer best known for his leading roles on Broadway and in West End productions, including Chicago and The Phantom of the Opera.
E1337022 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: Brent Barrett | Statement: [Billy Flynn, portrayedBy, Brent Barrett]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brent Barrett
Context triple: [Billy Flynn, portrayedBy, Brent Barrett]
  • A. Timothy Busfield
    Timothy Busfield is an American actor and director best known for his roles in television series such as "thirtysomething," "The West Wing," and various film and stage productions.
  • B. Gregg Henry
    Gregg Henry is an American character actor and musician known for his prolific work in film and television, often portraying intense or villainous roles.
  • C. Jason Nevins
    Jason Nevins is an American record producer and remixer best known for his hit dance remixes of pop and rock songs, including his breakthrough rework of Run–D.M.C.’s “It’s Like That.”
  • D. Tim Mahoney
    Tim Mahoney is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band 311.
  • E. James Michael Tyler
    James Michael Tyler was an American actor best known for playing Gunther, the Central Perk barista, on the television sitcom "Friends."
  • 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: Brent Barrett
Triple: [Billy Flynn, portrayedBy, Brent Barrett]
Generated description
Brent Barrett is an American musical theatre actor and singer best known for his leading roles on Broadway and in West End productions, including Chicago and The Phantom of the Opera.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brent Barrett
Target entity description: Brent Barrett is an American musical theatre actor and singer best known for his leading roles on Broadway and in West End productions, including Chicago and The Phantom of the Opera.
  • A. Timothy Busfield
    Timothy Busfield is an American actor and director best known for his roles in television series such as "thirtysomething," "The West Wing," and various film and stage productions.
  • B. Gregg Henry
    Gregg Henry is an American character actor and musician known for his prolific work in film and television, often portraying intense or villainous roles.
  • C. Jason Nevins
    Jason Nevins is an American record producer and remixer best known for his hit dance remixes of pop and rock songs, including his breakthrough rework of Run–D.M.C.’s “It’s Like That.”
  • D. Tim Mahoney
    Tim Mahoney is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band 311.
  • E. James Michael Tyler
    James Michael Tyler was an American actor best known for playing Gunther, the Central Perk barista, on the television sitcom "Friends."
  • 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_69d8d38cc7948190a55ea64e5638994e completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e54fc80b308190932303231524d372 completed April 19, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a052343418881909b6c4883bb0f6aff completed May 14, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05248c12d88190abb947a37b7d180c completed May 14, 2026, 1:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a052523e1588190a365dc093d8352a1 completed May 14, 2026, 1:28 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:46 a.m.