Triple

T21402720
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McLean Stevenson E527951 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr.
Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr. was an American actor and comedian best known for playing Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the television series M*A*S*H.
E1482784 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: Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr. | Statement: [McLean Stevenson, fullName, Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr.
Context triple: [McLean Stevenson, fullName, Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr.]
  • A. Robert Louis Stevenson
    Robert Louis Stevenson was a 19th-century Scottish novelist, essayist, and travel writer best known for works such as "Treasure Island" and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde."
  • B. Robert Lindsay Stevenson
    Robert Lindsay Stevenson, better known as Robert Lindsay, is an English actor acclaimed for his work in television, film, and theatre, including roles in "Citizen Smith" and "My Family."
  • C. George Raymond Stevenson
    George Raymond Stevenson was a Northern Irish actor known for his roles in films like "Punisher: War Zone" and "Thor" and the TV series "Rome."
  • D. C. L. Stevenson
    C. L. Stevenson was a 20th-century American philosopher best known for his influential work in metaethics and the development of emotivism, a noncognitivist theory of moral language.
  • E. Thomas Campbell
    Thomas Campbell was a Presbyterian minister and early 19th-century religious reformer best known as a founding leader of the Stone–Campbell Movement, which sought to restore New Testament Christianity and promote Christian unity.
  • 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: Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr.
Triple: [McLean Stevenson, fullName, Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr.]
Generated description
Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr. was an American actor and comedian best known for playing Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the television series M*A*S*H.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr.
Target entity description: Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr. was an American actor and comedian best known for playing Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the television series M*A*S*H.
  • A. Robert Louis Stevenson
    Robert Louis Stevenson was a 19th-century Scottish novelist, essayist, and travel writer best known for works such as "Treasure Island" and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde."
  • B. Robert Lindsay Stevenson
    Robert Lindsay Stevenson, better known as Robert Lindsay, is an English actor acclaimed for his work in television, film, and theatre, including roles in "Citizen Smith" and "My Family."
  • C. George Raymond Stevenson
    George Raymond Stevenson was a Northern Irish actor known for his roles in films like "Punisher: War Zone" and "Thor" and the TV series "Rome."
  • D. C. L. Stevenson
    C. L. Stevenson was a 20th-century American philosopher best known for his influential work in metaethics and the development of emotivism, a noncognitivist theory of moral language.
  • E. Thomas Campbell
    Thomas Campbell was a Presbyterian minister and early 19th-century religious reformer best known as a founding leader of the Stone–Campbell Movement, which sought to restore New Testament Christianity and promote Christian unity.
  • 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_69e0b520ee3c8190abddbee7e37e834c completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e8b171336c819083ae5e2c0f5d4b95 completed April 22, 2026, 11:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09bb5161d08190a945896d7418ec90 completed May 17, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09bea4a674819093d5bfb9e6fe69b9 completed May 17, 2026, 1:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09bf9d2d508190a45847afa0d47337 completed May 17, 2026, 1:16 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 5:24 p.m.