Triple

T23561112
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Will Truman E579237 entity
Predicate romanticPartner P9994 FINISHED
Object McCoy Whitman
McCoy Whitman is a character from the television series "Will & Grace," known as one of Will Truman’s romantic partners.
E1590309 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: McCoy Whitman | Statement: [Will Truman, romanticPartner, McCoy Whitman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McCoy Whitman
Context triple: [Will Truman, romanticPartner, McCoy Whitman]
  • A. Allen Whitman
    Allen Whitman is a bassist best known for his work with the instrumental rock band The Mermen and for contributing to Joe Satriani’s album "Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards."
  • B. William Whiting Boardman
    William Whiting Boardman was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and held various state and local offices.
  • C. Frank Buckman
    Frank Buckman is the loving but often overextended patriarch of the Buckman family whose struggles with parenting and personal expectations drive the emotional core of the film "Parenthood."
  • D. Joseph McCoy
    Joseph McCoy was a 19th-century American cattle dealer and entrepreneur best known for turning Abilene, Kansas into a major cattle-shipping center and helping establish the famous Western cattle trails.
  • E. Francis Whitman
    Francis Whitman is one of the three estranged brothers in Wes Anderson’s film "The Darjeeling Limited," known for his controlling nature, bandaged face, and attempts to orchestrate a spiritual family reunion during their train journey across India.
  • 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: McCoy Whitman
Triple: [Will Truman, romanticPartner, McCoy Whitman]
Generated description
McCoy Whitman is a character from the television series "Will & Grace," known as one of Will Truman’s romantic partners.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McCoy Whitman
Target entity description: McCoy Whitman is a character from the television series "Will & Grace," known as one of Will Truman’s romantic partners.
  • A. Allen Whitman
    Allen Whitman is a bassist best known for his work with the instrumental rock band The Mermen and for contributing to Joe Satriani’s album "Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards."
  • B. William Whiting Boardman
    William Whiting Boardman was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and held various state and local offices.
  • C. Frank Buckman
    Frank Buckman is the loving but often overextended patriarch of the Buckman family whose struggles with parenting and personal expectations drive the emotional core of the film "Parenthood."
  • D. Joseph McCoy
    Joseph McCoy was a 19th-century American cattle dealer and entrepreneur best known for turning Abilene, Kansas into a major cattle-shipping center and helping establish the famous Western cattle trails.
  • E. Francis Whitman
    Francis Whitman is one of the three estranged brothers in Wes Anderson’s film "The Darjeeling Limited," known for his controlling nature, bandaged face, and attempts to orchestrate a spiritual family reunion during their train journey across India.
  • 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_69e245fe24588190888f3aec8407d8e3 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1af680ee88190a23a6f9fed7ae757 completed April 29, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0cdf6bd58c8190af28bb72d950b15d completed May 19, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ce113d3d88190b97af92272a5100f completed May 19, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ce187efa48190876f67fef4873af2 completed May 19, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 6:17 p.m.