Triple

T10391389
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Killing Joke (2016 film) E244899 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Sam Liu
Sam Liu is an American animation director best known for his extensive work on DC Comics animated films and television series.
 E861546 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: Sam Liu | Statement: [The Killing Joke (2016 film), director, Sam Liu]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sam Liu
Context triple: [The Killing Joke (2016 film), director, Sam Liu]
  • A. Young Liu
    Young Liu is a Taiwanese business executive best known as the chairman of Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturing services provider.
  • B. John Cheng
    John Cheng is a film producer best known for his work on the dark comedy movie "Horrible Bosses."
  • C. Ian Chen
    Ian Chen is a Taiwanese-American child actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Fresh Off the Boat" and the superhero film "Shazam!".
  • D. Sean Chen
    Sean Chen is a Taiwanese politician and technocrat who served as Premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in the early 2010s, known for his background in finance and economic policy.
  • E. Gong Liu
    Gong Liu was an early Zhou dynasty leader credited with consolidating and expanding the Zhou clan, laying foundations for the later rise of the Zhou state in ancient China.
  • 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: Sam Liu
Triple: [The Killing Joke (2016 film), director, Sam Liu]
Generated description
Sam Liu is an American animation director best known for his extensive work on DC Comics animated films and television series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sam Liu
Target entity description: Sam Liu is an American animation director best known for his extensive work on DC Comics animated films and television series.
  • A. Young Liu
    Young Liu is a Taiwanese business executive best known as the chairman of Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturing services provider.
  • B. John Cheng
    John Cheng is a film producer best known for his work on the dark comedy movie "Horrible Bosses."
  • C. Ian Chen
    Ian Chen is a Taiwanese-American child actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Fresh Off the Boat" and the superhero film "Shazam!".
  • D. Sean Chen
    Sean Chen is a Taiwanese politician and technocrat who served as Premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in the early 2010s, known for his background in finance and economic policy.
  • E. Gong Liu
    Gong Liu was an early Zhou dynasty leader credited with consolidating and expanding the Zhou clan, laying foundations for the later rise of the Zhou state in ancient China.
  • 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_69d381b5116081908d85227bab6d3c0c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e9b5b43081908641a5abfb08dc2b completed April 7, 2026, 11:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d7fbae9a9c81908178fca68eb142b6 completed April 9, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d822d303888190aa556287b3b1cc03 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d859b05a3881908c97cb173d160e44 completed April 10, 2026, 2 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:06 p.m.