Triple

T23374189
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lynn Whitfield E593560 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Butler-Smith
Butler-Smith is the family surname of American actress Lynn Whitfield, known for her acclaimed film and television roles.
 E1583901 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: Butler-Smith | Statement: [Lynn Whitfield, familyName, Butler-Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Butler-Smith
Context triple: [Lynn Whitfield, familyName, Butler-Smith]
  • A. Butler
    Butler is a city in Pennsylvania that serves as the administrative and economic center of Butler County.
  • B. Butler
    Butler is the party that served as the defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Butler, which addressed the constitutionality of certain New Deal agricultural policies.
  • C. Butler
    Butler is a common English and Irish surname historically associated with nobility and service roles, borne by numerous notable figures in politics, law, and the arts.
  • D. Butler
    Butler is the highly skilled and fiercely loyal bodyguard and protector of child criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl in Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series.
  • E. Butler
    Butler is a light rail station on the MBTA's Mattapan trolley line in Boston, Massachusetts, serving the local residential neighborhood.
  • 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: Butler-Smith
Triple: [Lynn Whitfield, familyName, Butler-Smith]
Generated description
Butler-Smith is the family surname of American actress Lynn Whitfield, known for her acclaimed film and television roles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Butler-Smith
Target entity description: Butler-Smith is the family surname of American actress Lynn Whitfield, known for her acclaimed film and television roles.
  • A. Butler
    Butler is a city in Pennsylvania that serves as the administrative and economic center of Butler County.
  • B. Butler
    Butler is the party that served as the defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Butler, which addressed the constitutionality of certain New Deal agricultural policies.
  • C. Butler
    Butler is a light rail station on the MBTA's Mattapan trolley line in Boston, Massachusetts, serving the local residential neighborhood.
  • D. Butler
    Butler is a common English and Irish surname historically associated with nobility and service roles, borne by numerous notable figures in politics, law, and the arts.
  • E. Butler
    Butler is the highly skilled and fiercely loyal bodyguard and protector of child criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl in Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series.
  • 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_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_6a0c5ddfbbf0819098166b60f5e5e62e completed May 19, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c5fc2cd908190b86c0f915db3a1e3 completed May 19, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c603b3ad08190b9bfead27448fc58 completed May 19, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:33 p.m.