Triple

T20383707
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Whistling in the Dark E497904 entity
Predicate characterRole P268 FINISHED
Object Wally Benton is a radio crime-show host
Wally Benton is a fictional radio crime-show host who becomes entangled in real-life mystery and danger in the film "Whistling in the Dark."
E1428011 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: Wally Benton is a radio crime-show host | Statement: [Whistling in the Dark, characterRole, Wally Benton is a radio crime-show host]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wally Benton is a radio crime-show host
Context triple: [Whistling in the Dark, characterRole, Wally Benton is a radio crime-show host]
  • A. Wally Bunker
    Wally Bunker is a former Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his standout early career with the Baltimore Orioles in the 1960s.
  • B. Wally B. Feed
    Wally B. Feed is a timid, bespectacled cartographer known for making maps in the comedic pirate adventure game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge.
  • C. Wally Walker
    Wally Walker is a former American professional basketball player best known for his role as a key contributor to the Seattle SuperSonics during their late-1970s championship run and later as an NBA executive.
  • D. Wally Fay
    Wally Fay is a supporting character in the 1945 film noir "Mildred Pierce," known as a somewhat sleazy businessman entangled in the story’s web of betrayal and murder.
  • E. Dr. Wally
    Dr. Wally is a fictional character portrayed by Robert De Niro in film.
  • 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: Wally Benton is a radio crime-show host
Triple: [Whistling in the Dark, characterRole, Wally Benton is a radio crime-show host]
Generated description
Wally Benton is a fictional radio crime-show host who becomes entangled in real-life mystery and danger in the film "Whistling in the Dark."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wally Benton is a radio crime-show host
Target entity description: Wally Benton is a fictional radio crime-show host who becomes entangled in real-life mystery and danger in the film "Whistling in the Dark."
  • A. Wally Bunker
    Wally Bunker is a former Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his standout early career with the Baltimore Orioles in the 1960s.
  • B. Wally B. Feed
    Wally B. Feed is a timid, bespectacled cartographer known for making maps in the comedic pirate adventure game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge.
  • C. Wally Walker
    Wally Walker is a former American professional basketball player best known for his role as a key contributor to the Seattle SuperSonics during their late-1970s championship run and later as an NBA executive.
  • D. Wally Fay
    Wally Fay is a supporting character in the 1945 film noir "Mildred Pierce," known as a somewhat sleazy businessman entangled in the story’s web of betrayal and murder.
  • E. Dr. Wally
    Dr. Wally is a fictional character portrayed by Robert De Niro in film.
  • 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_69e0b4a5b7908190a972e4e7e698ae94 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e678b2ceec819091ad5205ee9b2174 completed April 20, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08761704488190a4b832977d824839 completed May 16, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08771f7edc8190b0c1dce8f5f6e145 completed May 16, 2026, 1:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0877ac99408190a31ee21894770334 completed May 16, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:27 a.m.