Triple

T18973599
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mickey Shaughnessy E464234 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Joseph Michael Shaughnessy
Joseph Michael Shaughnessy, better known as Mickey Shaughnessy, was an American character actor and comedian noted for his tough-but-likable roles in mid-20th-century films.
E1363895 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: Joseph Michael Shaughnessy | Statement: [Mickey Shaughnessy, birthName, Joseph Michael Shaughnessy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Michael Shaughnessy
Context triple: [Mickey Shaughnessy, birthName, Joseph Michael Shaughnessy]
  • A. Charles Shaughnessy
    Charles Shaughnessy is a British actor best known for his role as Maxwell Sheffield on the television sitcom "The Nanny."
  • B. John S. Foster Jr.
    John S. Foster Jr. is an American physicist and defense official best known for serving as Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the U.S. Department of Defense during the Cold War, where he played a key role in nuclear weapons and strategic defense development.
  • C. William Tilden Blodgett
    William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • D. Herbert Browne
    Herbert Browne was an architect known for designing notable buildings in Washington, D.C., including the historic Anderson House.
  • E. Wolcott J. Humphrey
    Wolcott J. Humphrey was a 19th-century American politician from New York who served in the state legislature and is interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo.
  • 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: Joseph Michael Shaughnessy
Triple: [Mickey Shaughnessy, birthName, Joseph Michael Shaughnessy]
Generated description
Joseph Michael Shaughnessy, better known as Mickey Shaughnessy, was an American character actor and comedian noted for his tough-but-likable roles in mid-20th-century films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Michael Shaughnessy
Target entity description: Joseph Michael Shaughnessy, better known as Mickey Shaughnessy, was an American character actor and comedian noted for his tough-but-likable roles in mid-20th-century films.
  • A. Charles Shaughnessy
    Charles Shaughnessy is a British actor best known for his role as Maxwell Sheffield on the television sitcom "The Nanny."
  • B. John S. Foster Jr.
    John S. Foster Jr. is an American physicist and defense official best known for serving as Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the U.S. Department of Defense during the Cold War, where he played a key role in nuclear weapons and strategic defense development.
  • C. William Tilden Blodgett
    William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • D. Herbert Browne
    Herbert Browne was an architect known for designing notable buildings in Washington, D.C., including the historic Anderson House.
  • E. Wolcott J. Humphrey
    Wolcott J. Humphrey was a 19th-century American politician from New York who served in the state legislature and is interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo.
  • 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_69d8dd008af48190a97ff1c6488edf1b completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5d61d7728819096f0baea75658a6a completed April 20, 2026, 7:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0700ca43848190aef4493f770cb6d2 completed May 15, 2026, 11:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a070191a48481908f2c731d0d1d00bf completed May 15, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07025e91488190a25f6eb4fd6916c2 completed May 15, 2026, 11:24 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, noon