Triple

T10680612
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The City of Silent Men E251740 entity
Predicate writer P1360 FINISHED
Object Perley Poore Sheehan
Perley Poore Sheehan was an American author and screenwriter of the early 20th century, known for his adventure fiction and work in silent-era Hollywood films.
E922553 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: Perley Poore Sheehan | Statement: [The City of Silent Men, writer, Perley Poore Sheehan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Perley Poore Sheehan
Context triple: [The City of Silent Men, writer, Perley Poore Sheehan]
  • A. William A. O'Kelly
    William A. O'Kelly was a significant figure in the history of North Carolina A&T State University, honored for his contributions by having the university’s O'Kelly–Riddick Stadium named after him.
  • B. Edmund C. Lynch
    Edmund C. Lynch was an American financier and co-founder of the investment firm Merrill Lynch, which became one of the largest brokerage and financial services companies in the world.
  • C. Arthur E. Molloy
    Arthur E. Molloy was an individual significant enough in marine or exploratory history to have the undersea feature Molloy Deep named in his honor.
  • D. William F. Walsh
    William F. Walsh was an American politician and attorney who served as the mayor of Syracuse, New York, and later as a U.S. Representative from New York.
  • E. William E. Walsh
    William E. Walsh was an American businessman and civic leader best known for playing a key role in the establishment of the University of Miami in the 1920s.
  • 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: Perley Poore Sheehan
Triple: [The City of Silent Men, writer, Perley Poore Sheehan]
Generated description
Perley Poore Sheehan was an American author and screenwriter of the early 20th century, known for his adventure fiction and work in silent-era Hollywood films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Perley Poore Sheehan
Target entity description: Perley Poore Sheehan was an American author and screenwriter of the early 20th century, known for his adventure fiction and work in silent-era Hollywood films.
  • A. William A. O'Kelly
    William A. O'Kelly was a significant figure in the history of North Carolina A&T State University, honored for his contributions by having the university’s O'Kelly–Riddick Stadium named after him.
  • B. Edmund C. Lynch
    Edmund C. Lynch was an American financier and co-founder of the investment firm Merrill Lynch, which became one of the largest brokerage and financial services companies in the world.
  • C. Arthur E. Molloy
    Arthur E. Molloy was an individual significant enough in marine or exploratory history to have the undersea feature Molloy Deep named in his honor.
  • D. William F. Walsh
    William F. Walsh was an American politician and attorney who served as the mayor of Syracuse, New York, and later as a U.S. Representative from New York.
  • E. William E. Walsh
    William E. Walsh was an American businessman and civic leader best known for playing a key role in the establishment of the University of Miami in the 1920s.
  • 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_69d6aa5bd7c08190a816e733b4045c23 completed April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d6fcc1b8d4819082fde22db39d8b24 completed April 9, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e58a8c67248190be284ddd84f9d8b8 completed April 20, 2026, 2:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e59323c5948190bc2c9512f7b0a54f completed April 20, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e599c53704819097c0fdbbfbbb1e87 completed April 20, 2026, 3:13 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:10 p.m.