Triple

T10453922
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Synecdoche, New York E246501 entity
Predicate narrativeFocus P31 FINISHED
Object theatre director Caden Cotard
Caden Cotard is the neurotic, obsessively introspective theatre director at the center of Charlie Kaufman’s film "Synecdoche, New York," whose life and art blur together in an increasingly elaborate and surreal stage production.
E863518 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: theatre director Caden Cotard | Statement: [Synecdoche, New York, narrativeFocus, theatre director Caden Cotard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: theatre director Caden Cotard
Context triple: [Synecdoche, New York, narrativeFocus, theatre director Caden Cotard]
  • A. André Antoine (theatre director)
    André Antoine was a pioneering French theatre director and founder of the Théâtre Libre, renowned for introducing naturalism and modern staging techniques to the late 19th-century stage.
  • B. Alex Timbers
    Alex Timbers is a Tony Award–winning American theater director and writer known for his inventive, visually bold stagings on Broadway and beyond.
  • C. Michael Mayer
    Michael Mayer is an acclaimed American theater director known for his innovative work on Broadway musicals and plays, including the Tony Award-winning production of "Spring Awakening."
  • D. Martin Crimp
    Martin Crimp is a contemporary British playwright and translator known for his formally inventive, often darkly comic works and influential contributions to modern European theatre.
  • E. Peter Strickland
    Peter Strickland is a British filmmaker known for his atmospheric, genre-bending films that blend psychological horror, dark humor, and meticulous sound design.
  • 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: theatre director Caden Cotard
Triple: [Synecdoche, New York, narrativeFocus, theatre director Caden Cotard]
Generated description
Caden Cotard is the neurotic, obsessively introspective theatre director at the center of Charlie Kaufman’s film "Synecdoche, New York," whose life and art blur together in an increasingly elaborate and surreal stage production.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: theatre director Caden Cotard
Target entity description: Caden Cotard is the neurotic, obsessively introspective theatre director at the center of Charlie Kaufman’s film "Synecdoche, New York," whose life and art blur together in an increasingly elaborate and surreal stage production.
  • A. André Antoine (theatre director)
    André Antoine was a pioneering French theatre director and founder of the Théâtre Libre, renowned for introducing naturalism and modern staging techniques to the late 19th-century stage.
  • B. Alex Timbers
    Alex Timbers is a Tony Award–winning American theater director and writer known for his inventive, visually bold stagings on Broadway and beyond.
  • C. Michael Mayer
    Michael Mayer is an acclaimed American theater director known for his innovative work on Broadway musicals and plays, including the Tony Award-winning production of "Spring Awakening."
  • D. Martin Crimp
    Martin Crimp is a contemporary British playwright and translator known for his formally inventive, often darkly comic works and influential contributions to modern European theatre.
  • E. Peter Strickland
    Peter Strickland is a British filmmaker known for his atmospheric, genre-bending films that blend psychological horror, dark humor, and meticulous sound design.
  • 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_69d381c04fe08190957c26c526a3b05a completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4fe0d73d48190acb687b96918e0cf completed April 7, 2026, 12:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d87f07c9f48190b0fce7740a2e003a completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d886c562c081908aae846da8efb1a5 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d88dce21448190b093b4f548e29f84 completed April 10, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:17 p.m.