Triple

T11049686
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Flipper (1996 film) E261212 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Alan Shapiro
Alan Shapiro was an American film and television director and screenwriter best known for his work on family and genre films in the 1980s and 1990s.
E901286 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: Alan Shapiro | Statement: [Flipper (1996 film), director, Alan Shapiro]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Shapiro
Context triple: [Flipper (1996 film), director, Alan Shapiro]
  • A. Allen Shapiro
    Allen Shapiro is an American entertainment executive and film producer known for his work on projects such as the Western film "The Quick and the Dead."
  • B. Charles W. Shields
    Charles W. Shields is an American politician who served as a Republican member and leader in the Missouri Senate.
  • C. Samuel Dracutt
    Samuel Dracutt was a historical figure after whom the town of Dracut, Massachusetts, was named, likely an early landowner or prominent local settler.
  • D. Brian Hartnett
    Brian Hartnett is a notable individual distinguished enough in his field or public life to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the Hartnett surname.
  • E. K. Trevor Wilson
    K. Trevor Wilson is a Canadian stand-up comedian and actor best known for playing the character Squirrely Dan on the television series "Letterkenny."
  • 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: Alan Shapiro
Triple: [Flipper (1996 film), director, Alan Shapiro]
Generated description
Alan Shapiro was an American film and television director and screenwriter best known for his work on family and genre films in the 1980s and 1990s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Shapiro
Target entity description: Alan Shapiro was an American film and television director and screenwriter best known for his work on family and genre films in the 1980s and 1990s.
  • A. Allen Shapiro
    Allen Shapiro is an American entertainment executive and film producer known for his work on projects such as the Western film "The Quick and the Dead."
  • B. Charles W. Shields
    Charles W. Shields is an American politician who served as a Republican member and leader in the Missouri Senate.
  • C. Samuel Dracutt
    Samuel Dracutt was a historical figure after whom the town of Dracut, Massachusetts, was named, likely an early landowner or prominent local settler.
  • D. Brian Hartnett
    Brian Hartnett is a notable individual distinguished enough in his field or public life to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the Hartnett surname.
  • E. K. Trevor Wilson
    K. Trevor Wilson is a Canadian stand-up comedian and actor best known for playing the character Squirrely Dan on the television series "Letterkenny."
  • 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_69d6aa98650481908609c7c56bfa7902 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d79868c78881908c8e3672c05ae7ec completed April 9, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3aa06bae08190a0db615a258ded29 completed April 18, 2026, 3:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3ad0379888190b2f56d36d79bf97d completed April 18, 2026, 4:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3b206c7a4819087eb06faa6e1af21 completed April 18, 2026, 4:32 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:26 p.m.