Triple

T10782572
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Johnny Mack Brown E254362 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Crooked Trail (1936 film)
The Crooked Trail (1936 film) is a 1936 American Western movie starring cowboy actor Johnny Mack Brown in a tale of frontier adventure and justice.
E885742 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: The Crooked Trail (1936 film) | Statement: [Johnny Mack Brown, notableWork, The Crooked Trail (1936 film)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Crooked Trail (1936 film)
Context triple: [Johnny Mack Brown, notableWork, The Crooked Trail (1936 film)]
  • A. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)
    The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 American romantic drama notable as one of the earliest three-strip Technicolor feature films shot outdoors, based on John Fox Jr.'s novel about feuding Appalachian families.
  • B. The Outlaw (1943 film)
    The Outlaw (1943 film) is a controversial 1943 Western directed and produced by Howard Hughes, best known for its provocative portrayal of Billy the Kid and its then-scandalous emphasis on star Jane Russell.
  • C. The Trail of '98 (1928 film)
    The Trail of '98 is a 1928 silent adventure film dramatizing the hardships and dangers faced by fortune seekers during the Klondike Gold Rush.
  • D. There Was a Crooked Man...
    "There Was a Crooked Man..." is a 1970 Western black comedy film co-written by David Newman that subverts traditional genre tropes through its darkly humorous take on crime and morality in the Old West.
  • E. The Plainsman (1936 film)
    The Plainsman (1936 film) is a 1936 American Western adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille that dramatizes the lives and exploits of frontier figures like Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.
  • 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: The Crooked Trail (1936 film)
Triple: [Johnny Mack Brown, notableWork, The Crooked Trail (1936 film)]
Generated description
The Crooked Trail (1936 film) is a 1936 American Western movie starring cowboy actor Johnny Mack Brown in a tale of frontier adventure and justice.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Crooked Trail (1936 film)
Target entity description: The Crooked Trail (1936 film) is a 1936 American Western movie starring cowboy actor Johnny Mack Brown in a tale of frontier adventure and justice.
  • A. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)
    The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 American romantic drama notable as one of the earliest three-strip Technicolor feature films shot outdoors, based on John Fox Jr.'s novel about feuding Appalachian families.
  • B. The Outlaw (1943 film)
    The Outlaw (1943 film) is a controversial 1943 Western directed and produced by Howard Hughes, best known for its provocative portrayal of Billy the Kid and its then-scandalous emphasis on star Jane Russell.
  • C. The Trail of '98 (1928 film)
    The Trail of '98 is a 1928 silent adventure film dramatizing the hardships and dangers faced by fortune seekers during the Klondike Gold Rush.
  • D. There Was a Crooked Man...
    "There Was a Crooked Man..." is a 1970 Western black comedy film co-written by David Newman that subverts traditional genre tropes through its darkly humorous take on crime and morality in the Old West.
  • E. The Plainsman (1936 film)
    The Plainsman (1936 film) is a 1936 American Western adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille that dramatizes the lives and exploits of frontier figures like Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.
  • 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_69d6aa609f008190a294200aefcb7bd5 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d732c5618081908f72838ed42ed05c completed April 9, 2026, 5:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69de55fbfc70819098eb40cf0d1b9e8c completed April 14, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69de5eadb9448190bdf69711394e2ab7 completed April 14, 2026, 3:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69de607917808190922df6521d7bfb07 completed April 14, 2026, 3:42 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:17 p.m.