Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject If.... E267554 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object David Sherwin
David Sherwin was a British screenwriter best known for co-writing the influential 1968 film "If...." directed by Lindsay Anderson.
E930356 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: David Sherwin | Statement: [If...., screenwriter, David Sherwin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Sherwin
Context triple: [If...., screenwriter, David Sherwin]
  • A. Douglas Meyer
    Douglas Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the Broadway musical adaptation of "The Wedding Singer."
  • B. Stephen F. Martin
    Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
  • C. Richard Jemmons
    Richard Jemmons is a fictional, fast-talking political strategist and narrator in Joe Klein’s novel (and its film adaptation) "Primary Colors," loosely inspired by real-life consultant James Carville.
  • D. Philip Bruns
    Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
  • E. David Soward
    David Soward is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cosmetics brand Urban Decay, which helped popularize edgy, alternative makeup in the 1990s.
  • 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: David Sherwin
Triple: [If...., screenwriter, David Sherwin]
Generated description
David Sherwin was a British screenwriter best known for co-writing the influential 1968 film "If...." directed by Lindsay Anderson.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Sherwin
Target entity description: David Sherwin was a British screenwriter best known for co-writing the influential 1968 film "If...." directed by Lindsay Anderson.
  • A. Douglas Meyer
    Douglas Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the Broadway musical adaptation of "The Wedding Singer."
  • B. Stephen F. Martin
    Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
  • C. Richard Jemmons
    Richard Jemmons is a fictional, fast-talking political strategist and narrator in Joe Klein’s novel (and its film adaptation) "Primary Colors," loosely inspired by real-life consultant James Carville.
  • D. Philip Bruns
    Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
  • E. David Soward
    David Soward is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cosmetics brand Urban Decay, which helped popularize edgy, alternative makeup in the 1990s.
  • 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_69d6aac993a08190a6f36445ebaf9a43 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e9a4aad4819097384e1b591be2e3 completed April 9, 2026, 6:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e6241c42fc8190a8539406248a535c completed April 20, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e62aee8fb88190b5973c61e692087f completed April 20, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e67394e7f081908fcc602c84eb4a65 completed April 20, 2026, 6:42 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:32 p.m.