Triple

T23122025
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kent McCord E576919 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Kent Franklin McWhirter
Kent Franklin McWhirter, better known as Kent McCord, is an American actor best known for his role as Officer Jim Reed on the television series "Adam-12."
E1575941 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: Kent Franklin McWhirter | Statement: [Kent McCord, birthName, Kent Franklin McWhirter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kent Franklin McWhirter
Context triple: [Kent McCord, birthName, Kent Franklin McWhirter]
  • A. Ralph W. McWhorter
    Ralph W. McWhorter was a prominent pharmacist and educator whose contributions to the field led to a pharmacy school being named in his honor.
  • B. Douglas Morrow
    Douglas Morrow was an American screenwriter best known for his Academy Award-winning work in mid-20th-century Hollywood cinema.
  • C. John Livengood
    John Livengood is the person after whom the place or entity named "Livengood" is derived, likely recognized as an early settler or notable figure associated with that name.
  • D. Charles Widger
    Charles Widger is a businessman and philanthropist best known for his major contributions to Villanova University, including the endowment that led to its law school bearing his name.
  • E. Jerry Warriner
    Jerry Warriner is the charming, witty husband whose marital misadventures and romantic sparring drive the screwball comedy of the classic film "The Awful Truth."
  • 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: Kent Franklin McWhirter
Triple: [Kent McCord, birthName, Kent Franklin McWhirter]
Generated description
Kent Franklin McWhirter, better known as Kent McCord, is an American actor best known for his role as Officer Jim Reed on the television series "Adam-12."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kent Franklin McWhirter
Target entity description: Kent Franklin McWhirter, better known as Kent McCord, is an American actor best known for his role as Officer Jim Reed on the television series "Adam-12."
  • A. Ralph W. McWhorter
    Ralph W. McWhorter was a prominent pharmacist and educator whose contributions to the field led to a pharmacy school being named in his honor.
  • B. Douglas Morrow
    Douglas Morrow was an American screenwriter best known for his Academy Award-winning work in mid-20th-century Hollywood cinema.
  • C. John Livengood
    John Livengood is the person after whom the place or entity named "Livengood" is derived, likely recognized as an early settler or notable figure associated with that name.
  • D. Charles Widger
    Charles Widger is a businessman and philanthropist best known for his major contributions to Villanova University, including the endowment that led to its law school bearing his name.
  • E. Jerry Warriner
    Jerry Warriner is the charming, witty husband whose marital misadventures and romantic sparring drive the screwball comedy of the classic film "The Awful Truth."
  • 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_69e245f6c2e881909a228fdcfeb7c7d3 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18e50c500819095d59aef44388153 completed April 29, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c308583d481908c7a750fd7fba044 completed May 19, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c378c36cc8190b4470dceb62f99ad completed May 19, 2026, 10:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c387daf6481909cd5f3cc19636575 completed May 19, 2026, 10:16 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:59 p.m.