Triple

T11464647
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Crowd E271748 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object John Sims
John Sims is the protagonist of King Vidor’s 1928 silent film "The Crowd," representing the struggles and aspirations of an ordinary man in modern urban society.
E927905 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: John Sims | Statement: [The Crowd, mainCharacter, John Sims]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Sims
Context triple: [The Crowd, mainCharacter, John Sims]
  • A. John Simmons
    John Simmons was a 19th-century American clothing manufacturer and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of Simmons University in Boston.
  • B. John Simmons
    John Simmons was an American statesman who represented South Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
  • C. Joe Sims
    Joe Sims is an American political activist and leader known for serving as chairperson of the Communist Party USA.
  • D. Johnny Simmons
    Johnny Simmons is an American actor known for his roles in films like "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," and the Netflix series "Girlboss."
  • E. Christopher Simmons
    Christopher Simmons is an American man whose death sentence as a juvenile offender led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roper v. Simmons, which abolished the death penalty for crimes committed by minors.
  • 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: John Sims
Triple: [The Crowd, mainCharacter, John Sims]
Generated description
John Sims is the protagonist of King Vidor’s 1928 silent film "The Crowd," representing the struggles and aspirations of an ordinary man in modern urban society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Sims
Target entity description: John Sims is the protagonist of King Vidor’s 1928 silent film "The Crowd," representing the struggles and aspirations of an ordinary man in modern urban society.
  • A. John Simmons
    John Simmons was an American statesman who represented South Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
  • B. John Simmons
    John Simmons was a 19th-century American clothing manufacturer and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of Simmons University in Boston.
  • C. Joe Sims
    Joe Sims is an American political activist and leader known for serving as chairperson of the Communist Party USA.
  • D. Johnny Simmons
    Johnny Simmons is an American actor known for his roles in films like "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," and the Netflix series "Girlboss."
  • E. Christopher Simmons
    Christopher Simmons is an American man whose death sentence as a juvenile offender led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roper v. Simmons, which abolished the death penalty for crimes committed by minors.
  • 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_69d6aae0c8d881908a5a360c0be3242e completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d822f488248190b9f603cd31c72174 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e5e9377ff4819096971a77e0181eaf completed April 20, 2026, 8:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e5f1593c2c8190885f80ad5eeba3ec completed April 20, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e5f87bbd988190ac388a3c34b2e95a completed April 20, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.