Triple

T11680360
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Children of a Lesser God E277598 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Mark Medoff
Mark Medoff was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director best known for his Tony Award–winning play "Children of a Lesser God" and its acclaimed film adaptation.
E940579 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: Mark Medoff | Statement: [Children of a Lesser God, screenwriter, Mark Medoff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark Medoff
Context triple: [Children of a Lesser God, screenwriter, Mark Medoff]
  • A. Alan Kushner
    Alan Kushner is an individual notable enough to be specifically distinguished from others sharing the surname Kushner, though widely recognized public details about him are limited.
  • B. Tom Mendelsohn
    Tom Mendelsohn is an Australian man known primarily as the brother of acclaimed actor Ben Mendelsohn.
  • C. Nathan Mendelsohn
    Nathan Mendelsohn was a real estate developer and visionary planner best known for conceiving and developing the master-planned community of California City in the Mojave Desert.
  • D. Alan Zweibel
    Alan Zweibel is an American comedy writer and producer best known as one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live and a longtime collaborator of Gilda Radner and Billy Crystal.
  • E. Jonathan Hadary
    Jonathan Hadary is an American stage and screen actor known for his work in Broadway productions and various film and television roles.
  • 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: Mark Medoff
Triple: [Children of a Lesser God, screenwriter, Mark Medoff]
Generated description
Mark Medoff was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director best known for his Tony Award–winning play "Children of a Lesser God" and its acclaimed film adaptation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark Medoff
Target entity description: Mark Medoff was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director best known for his Tony Award–winning play "Children of a Lesser God" and its acclaimed film adaptation.
  • A. Alan Kushner
    Alan Kushner is an individual notable enough to be specifically distinguished from others sharing the surname Kushner, though widely recognized public details about him are limited.
  • B. Tom Mendelsohn
    Tom Mendelsohn is an Australian man known primarily as the brother of acclaimed actor Ben Mendelsohn.
  • C. Nathan Mendelsohn
    Nathan Mendelsohn was a real estate developer and visionary planner best known for conceiving and developing the master-planned community of California City in the Mojave Desert.
  • D. Alan Zweibel
    Alan Zweibel is an American comedy writer and producer best known as one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live and a longtime collaborator of Gilda Radner and Billy Crystal.
  • E. Jonathan Hadary
    Jonathan Hadary is an American stage and screen actor known for his work in Broadway productions and various film and television roles.
  • 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_69d6aafd0a448190b44da30af8c6c519 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a461b0908190bef4e1c6777affcf completed April 10, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ef141134bc81908c0cfb0a3711c115 completed April 27, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ef35527f908190b681afdae3aec319 completed April 27, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ef51ec07ec8190b5cd97cf909388f0 completed April 27, 2026, 12:09 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.