Triple

T10354925
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mister Roberts E243976 entity
Predicate basedOnAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object Thomas Heggen
Thomas Heggen was an American author best known for his World War II–era novel "Mister Roberts," which became a hugely successful play and film.
E860532 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: Thomas Heggen | Statement: [Mister Roberts, basedOnAuthor, Thomas Heggen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Heggen
Context triple: [Mister Roberts, basedOnAuthor, Thomas Heggen]
  • A. George Hansen
    George Hansen is a fictional character from the 1958 Western film "Terror in a Texas Town."
  • B. Willam Christensen
    Willam Christensen was an influential American ballet dancer, choreographer, and director best known for helping establish professional ballet in the United States, including shaping the early artistic direction of the San Francisco Ballet.
  • C. William Mortensen
    William Mortensen was an American photographer best known for his controversial, pictorialist and often macabre images that challenged the emerging modernist aesthetic in early 20th-century photography.
  • D. Hans Dreier
    Hans Dreier was a prominent German-born art director in Hollywood’s Golden Age, best known for his influential visual design work on numerous Paramount Pictures films.
  • E. Fred Borch
    Fred Borch was an American business executive best known for his leadership at General Electric and his influential role in U.S. corporate governance circles.
  • 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: Thomas Heggen
Triple: [Mister Roberts, basedOnAuthor, Thomas Heggen]
Generated description
Thomas Heggen was an American author best known for his World War II–era novel "Mister Roberts," which became a hugely successful play and film.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Heggen
Target entity description: Thomas Heggen was an American author best known for his World War II–era novel "Mister Roberts," which became a hugely successful play and film.
  • A. George Hansen
    George Hansen is a fictional character from the 1958 Western film "Terror in a Texas Town."
  • B. Willam Christensen
    Willam Christensen was an influential American ballet dancer, choreographer, and director best known for helping establish professional ballet in the United States, including shaping the early artistic direction of the San Francisco Ballet.
  • C. William Mortensen
    William Mortensen was an American photographer best known for his controversial, pictorialist and often macabre images that challenged the emerging modernist aesthetic in early 20th-century photography.
  • D. Hans Dreier
    Hans Dreier was a prominent German-born art director in Hollywood’s Golden Age, best known for his influential visual design work on numerous Paramount Pictures films.
  • E. Fred Borch
    Fred Borch was an American business executive best known for his leadership at General Electric and his influential role in U.S. corporate governance circles.
  • 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_69d381b22b8c8190aaed476be5f872a9 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e953d4888190b7ca0ac932349dbf completed April 7, 2026, 11:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d79529208c81909b39e3ba937c541f completed April 9, 2026, 12:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d7bdde34408190a047ede29b91e182 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d7e5fc6a008190b2a2326840074b53 completed April 9, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:58 a.m.