Triple

T10190874
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Canadian cinema E238027 entity
Predicate notableDirector P4744 FINISHED
Object Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin is a Canadian filmmaker known for his surreal, visually stylized films that often emulate silent and early sound cinema.
E847456 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: Guy Maddin | Statement: [Canadian cinema, notableDirector, Guy Maddin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Guy Maddin
Context triple: [Canadian cinema, notableDirector, Guy Maddin]
  • A. Don Reid
    Don Reid is an American country and gospel singer best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the Statler Brothers.
  • B. John Neufeld
    John Neufeld is a film music orchestrator known for his work on major Hollywood scores, including Disney’s animated feature "Mulan" (1998).
  • C. Allen Beaulieu
    Allen Beaulieu is a photographer best known for his close collaboration with Prince, capturing many of the musician’s iconic images and album covers in the late 1970s and 1980s.
  • D. Peter Mathieson
    Peter Mathieson is a British nephrologist and academic leader who has served as principal and vice-chancellor of major universities, including the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hong Kong.
  • E. David Sillar
    David Sillar was a Scottish poet, close friend, and contemporary of Robert Burns, known for his role in the Ayrshire literary circle of the late 18th century.
  • 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: Guy Maddin
Triple: [Canadian cinema, notableDirector, Guy Maddin]
Generated description
Guy Maddin is a Canadian filmmaker known for his surreal, visually stylized films that often emulate silent and early sound cinema.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Guy Maddin
Target entity description: Guy Maddin is a Canadian filmmaker known for his surreal, visually stylized films that often emulate silent and early sound cinema.
  • A. Don Reid
    Don Reid is an American country and gospel singer best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the Statler Brothers.
  • B. John Neufeld
    John Neufeld is a film music orchestrator known for his work on major Hollywood scores, including Disney’s animated feature "Mulan" (1998).
  • C. Allen Beaulieu
    Allen Beaulieu is a photographer best known for his close collaboration with Prince, capturing many of the musician’s iconic images and album covers in the late 1970s and 1980s.
  • D. Peter Mathieson
    Peter Mathieson is a British nephrologist and academic leader who has served as principal and vice-chancellor of major universities, including the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hong Kong.
  • E. David Sillar
    David Sillar was a Scottish poet, close friend, and contemporary of Robert Burns, known for his role in the Ayrshire literary circle of the late 18th century.
  • 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_69ca84de1b208190bf17bb305b002605 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cded7eb1148190a2d175163685e233 completed April 2, 2026, 4:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d317c0c22881909ed388721e80bafd completed April 6, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d31b7fc66c8190b9de24200c149b45 completed April 6, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d31c7bf1f88190beef483458923787 completed April 6, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:13 p.m.