Triple

T9579258
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zach Braff E231126 entity
Predicate starredIn P1668 FINISHED
Object Alex, Inc.
Alex, Inc. is a short-lived American sitcom about a radio journalist starting his own podcast company, starring Zach Braff.
 E809358 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: Alex, Inc. | Statement: [Zach Braff, starredIn, Alex, Inc.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alex, Inc.
Context triple: [Zach Braff, starredIn, Alex, Inc.]
  • A. Obvious Corporation
    Obvious Corporation was the early holding company and development vehicle created by Twitter’s founders that incubated and spun out Twitter as an independent company.
  • B. Lambda Corporation
    Lambda Corporation is a company historically associated with physicist Hugh Everett III, known for his work on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
  • C. Alza Corporation
    Alza Corporation was a pioneering pharmaceutical and medical systems company known for developing advanced drug delivery technologies.
  • D. Canada Company
    Canada Company was a 19th-century British land development firm that played a major role in colonizing and settling parts of Upper Canada (now Ontario).
  • E. Echo Company
    Echo Company is a rifle company within the U.S. Marine Corps’ 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, known for its role in infantry combat operations.
  • 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: Alex, Inc.
Triple: [Zach Braff, starredIn, Alex, Inc.]
Generated description
Alex, Inc. is a short-lived American sitcom about a radio journalist starting his own podcast company, starring Zach Braff.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alex, Inc.
Target entity description: Alex, Inc. is a short-lived American sitcom about a radio journalist starting his own podcast company, starring Zach Braff.
  • A. Obvious Corporation
    Obvious Corporation was the early holding company and development vehicle created by Twitter’s founders that incubated and spun out Twitter as an independent company.
  • B. Lambda Corporation
    Lambda Corporation is a company historically associated with physicist Hugh Everett III, known for his work on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
  • C. Alza Corporation
    Alza Corporation was a pioneering pharmaceutical and medical systems company known for developing advanced drug delivery technologies.
  • D. Canada Company
    Canada Company was a 19th-century British land development firm that played a major role in colonizing and settling parts of Upper Canada (now Ontario).
  • E. Echo Company
    Echo Company is a rifle company within the U.S. Marine Corps’ 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, known for its role in infantry combat operations.
  • 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_69ca848091c48190bc313d6620d09555 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd99aece1081908287e03106de020f completed April 1, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1615d093c8190940037e9e0842db5 completed April 4, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d161e6a1308190932c8386e1c24f2e completed April 4, 2026, 7:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d165a8c80081909e4d0837cbaabf95 completed April 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:05 p.m.