Triple

T10284868
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Love Letters E241201 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object William Dieterle E159570 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: William Dieterle | Statement: [Love Letters, director, William Dieterle]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Dieterle
Context triple: [Love Letters, director, William Dieterle]
  • A. William Dieterle chosen
    William Dieterle was a German-born American film director and actor best known for his work in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, including acclaimed literary and historical adaptations.
  • B. Herbert Lange
    Herbert Lange was an SS officer and early commandant of the Chełmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp, where he played a key role in developing and implementing mass murder techniques during the Holocaust.
  • C. Willy Fritsch
    Willy Fritsch was a prominent German film and stage actor, especially famous for his leading roles in popular comedies and musical films of the 1920s and 1930s.
  • D. Wilhelm Dieterle
    Wilhelm Dieterle was a German-born film director and actor who became prominent in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, known for prestige biographical dramas such as "The Life of Emile Zola."
  • E. Alfred Abel
    Alfred Abel was a prominent German silent film actor best known for his role as the industrialist Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang’s classic science-fiction film "Metropolis."
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d381aaafc08190af475ef58dc16aba elicitation completed
NER batch_69d4d2b737788190bfadd0d48ad38f5b ner completed
NED1 batch_69d6f8444c48819095100c6d1d45ccc7 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:40 a.m.