Triple

T23374187
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lynn Whitfield E593560 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Lynn Butler-Smith
Lynn Butler-Smith, better known as Lynn Whitfield, is an American actress acclaimed for her powerful performances in film and television, including her Emmy-winning role in "The Josephine Baker Story."
E1692393 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Lynn Butler-Smith | Statement: [Lynn Whitfield, birthName, Lynn Butler-Smith]
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: Lynn Butler-Smith
Triple: [Lynn Whitfield, birthName, Lynn Butler-Smith]
Generated description
Lynn Butler-Smith, better known as Lynn Whitfield, is an American actress acclaimed for her powerful performances in film and television, including her Emmy-winning role in "The Josephine Baker Story."

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_69e25d268a50819095f2fd479da8ef3f completed April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1a3b1d24881909945936cbf00876e completed April 29, 2026, 6:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a10cba262648190be4c09e29f2639fd completed May 22, 2026, 9:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a10cc81bb8881909413a1b8924a0fe2 completed May 22, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a10cd0fbcc08190a12ded88d999feab completed May 22, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:33 p.m.