Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Strange Thing About the Johnsons E275917 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Sidney Johnson
Sidney Johnson is the troubled protagonist of Ari Aster’s short film "The Strange Thing About the Johnsons," whose life is defined by a deeply disturbing and abusive family relationship.
E876992 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: Sidney Johnson | Statement: [The Strange Thing About the Johnsons, mainCharacter, Sidney Johnson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sidney Johnson
Context triple: [The Strange Thing About the Johnsons, mainCharacter, Sidney Johnson]
  • A. James William Johnson
    James William Johnson is an individual whose specific public notability or distinguishing achievements are not clearly identifiable from the given information.
  • B. James William Johnson
    James William Johnson is the American football coach and broadcaster better known as Jimmy Johnson, who led the Dallas Cowboys to two Super Bowl titles in the 1990s.
  • C. Coleman Johnson
    Coleman Johnson is a musician known for being part of the indie supergroup Gayngs, which blends soft rock, R&B, and experimental sounds.
  • D. Saunders Terrell
    Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry, was an influential American blues and folk harmonica player renowned for his energetic, whooping style and collaborations with guitarist Brownie McGhee.
  • E. Otis Smith
    Otis Smith was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial violence and self-defense.
  • 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: Sidney Johnson
Triple: [The Strange Thing About the Johnsons, mainCharacter, Sidney Johnson]
Generated description
Sidney Johnson is the troubled protagonist of Ari Aster’s short film "The Strange Thing About the Johnsons," whose life is defined by a deeply disturbing and abusive family relationship.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sidney Johnson
Target entity description: Sidney Johnson is the troubled protagonist of Ari Aster’s short film "The Strange Thing About the Johnsons," whose life is defined by a deeply disturbing and abusive family relationship.
  • A. James William Johnson
    James William Johnson is the American football coach and broadcaster better known as Jimmy Johnson, who led the Dallas Cowboys to two Super Bowl titles in the 1990s.
  • B. James William Johnson
    James William Johnson is an individual whose specific public notability or distinguishing achievements are not clearly identifiable from the given information.
  • C. Coleman Johnson
    Coleman Johnson is a musician known for being part of the indie supergroup Gayngs, which blends soft rock, R&B, and experimental sounds.
  • D. Saunders Terrell
    Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry, was an influential American blues and folk harmonica player renowned for his energetic, whooping style and collaborations with guitarist Brownie McGhee.
  • E. Otis Smith
    Otis Smith was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial violence and self-defense.
  • 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_69d6aaf948d88190806cc3a8c47a3fb2 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d6df4c38c881908f69bb757b8e03f5 completed April 8, 2026, 11:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d97a23e24881909afb009baa0ef662 completed April 10, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d97cc07100819088683a0d79b2baa0 completed April 10, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d97e015b088190a97822675eecaa5a completed April 10, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 7:32 p.m.