Triple

T1147543
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject National Humanities Medal E23599 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Ken Burns
Ken Burns is an acclaimed American documentary filmmaker renowned for his in-depth, archival-driven films on U.S. history, including landmark series such as "The Civil War" and "Baseball."
E131516 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: Ken Burns | Statement: [National Humanities Medal, notableRecipient, Ken Burns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ken Burns
Context triple: [National Humanities Medal, notableRecipient, Ken Burns]
  • A. Alex Gibney
    Alex Gibney is an acclaimed American documentary filmmaker known for investigative, politically charged films such as "Taxi to the Dark Side" and "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room."
  • B. D. A. Pennebaker
    D. A. Pennebaker was a pioneering American documentary filmmaker known for his influential cinéma vérité style in music and political documentaries.
  • C. Haskell Wexler
    Haskell Wexler was an acclaimed American cinematographer and filmmaker known for his innovative visual style and influential work on both narrative features and political documentaries.
  • D. Mark Boal
    Mark Boal is an American journalist, screenwriter, and producer best known for his Oscar-winning work on films like "The Hurt Locker" and "Zero Dark Thirty."
  • E. Michael Moore
    Michael Moore is an American documentary filmmaker and author known for his provocative, politically charged films critiquing social and economic issues in the United States.
  • 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: Ken Burns
Triple: [National Humanities Medal, notableRecipient, Ken Burns]
Generated description
Ken Burns is an acclaimed American documentary filmmaker renowned for his in-depth, archival-driven films on U.S. history, including landmark series such as "The Civil War" and "Baseball."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ken Burns
Target entity description: Ken Burns is an acclaimed American documentary filmmaker renowned for his in-depth, archival-driven films on U.S. history, including landmark series such as "The Civil War" and "Baseball."
  • A. Alex Gibney
    Alex Gibney is an acclaimed American documentary filmmaker known for investigative, politically charged films such as "Taxi to the Dark Side" and "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room."
  • B. D. A. Pennebaker
    D. A. Pennebaker was a pioneering American documentary filmmaker known for his influential cinéma vérité style in music and political documentaries.
  • C. Haskell Wexler
    Haskell Wexler was an acclaimed American cinematographer and filmmaker known for his innovative visual style and influential work on both narrative features and political documentaries.
  • D. Mark Boal
    Mark Boal is an American journalist, screenwriter, and producer best known for his Oscar-winning work on films like "The Hurt Locker" and "Zero Dark Thirty."
  • E. Michael Moore
    Michael Moore is an American documentary filmmaker and author known for his provocative, politically charged films critiquing social and economic issues in the United States.
  • 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_69a493f0d32c8190ac74bad3c87f2641 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bc7041248190893e4c655dbd0604 completed March 1, 2026, 10:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac5eb3ec3881908c8cb39b422fcc71 completed March 7, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac5f248db081908596810839ee6160 completed March 7, 2026, 5:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac5fb242488190bf99f63956aeda13 completed March 7, 2026, 5:26 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.