Triple

T23032309
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject After Life E573496 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Tony Johnson
Tony Johnson is the grief-stricken, darkly sarcastic local journalist played by Ricky Gervais in the British dramedy series "After Life," known for his nihilistic outlook following his wife's death.
E1569573 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: Tony Johnson | Statement: [After Life, mainCharacter, Tony Johnson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tony Johnson
Context triple: [After Life, mainCharacter, Tony Johnson]
  • A. George Perry Johnson
    George Perry Johnson was an early African American film producer and co-founder of the Lincoln Motion Picture Company, one of the first Black-owned movie studios in the United States.
  • B. Val Johnson
    Val Johnson is a warehouse worker and later office employee on the U.S. version of "The Office," known for her relationship with Darryl Philbin.
  • C. Mat Johnson
    Mat Johnson is an American novelist, comic book writer, and essayist known for his satirical explorations of race, identity, and American culture.
  • D. Frank Johnson
    Frank Johnson was a British colonial military leader best known for commanding the Pioneer Column that occupied and helped establish colonial rule in what became Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the late 19th century.
  • E. Christopher Johnson
    Christopher Johnson is the intelligent and resourceful alien "prawn" who leads the effort to escape Earth in the science fiction film District 9.
  • 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: Tony Johnson
Triple: [After Life, mainCharacter, Tony Johnson]
Generated description
Tony Johnson is the grief-stricken, darkly sarcastic local journalist played by Ricky Gervais in the British dramedy series "After Life," known for his nihilistic outlook following his wife's death.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tony Johnson
Target entity description: Tony Johnson is the grief-stricken, darkly sarcastic local journalist played by Ricky Gervais in the British dramedy series "After Life," known for his nihilistic outlook following his wife's death.
  • A. George Perry Johnson
    George Perry Johnson was an early African American film producer and co-founder of the Lincoln Motion Picture Company, one of the first Black-owned movie studios in the United States.
  • B. Val Johnson
    Val Johnson is a warehouse worker and later office employee on the U.S. version of "The Office," known for her relationship with Darryl Philbin.
  • C. Mat Johnson
    Mat Johnson is an American novelist, comic book writer, and essayist known for his satirical explorations of race, identity, and American culture.
  • D. Frank Johnson
    Frank Johnson was a British colonial military leader best known for commanding the Pioneer Column that occupied and helped establish colonial rule in what became Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the late 19th century.
  • E. Christopher Johnson
    Christopher Johnson is the intelligent and resourceful alien "prawn" who leads the effort to escape Earth in the science fiction film District 9.
  • 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_69e245b911188190bc3d96326c847969 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f184822a90819081907d72c76770b0 completed April 29, 2026, 4:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c159ffb7481909b2987e8aea047ca completed May 19, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c17214dc48190be02f8d83c29b90a completed May 19, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c17da6a108190b37d1e69e6f24e00 completed May 19, 2026, 7:57 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:53 p.m.