Triple

T1201161
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alfred Hitchcock Presents E25783 entity
Predicate featuredDirector P255 FINISHED
Object Herschel Daugherty
Herschel Daugherty was an American film and television director best known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century TV dramas and anthology series.
E221118 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: Herschel Daugherty | Statement: [Alfred Hitchcock Presents, featuredDirector, Herschel Daugherty]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herschel Daugherty
Context triple: [Alfred Hitchcock Presents, featuredDirector, Herschel Daugherty]
  • A. Sherman Adams
    Sherman Adams was an American politician and close aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, best known for his influential role in the Eisenhower administration and his resignation amid a gifts scandal.
  • B. Elam Ferguson
    Elam Ferguson is a formerly enslaved man who becomes a central figure in the post–Civil War frontier drama of the TV series "Hell on Wheels," navigating racial tensions, violence, and his search for identity and justice.
  • C. Winston Hibler
    Winston Hibler was an American screenwriter, producer, and narrator best known for his long association with Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to classic animated features and nature documentaries.
  • D. Joe Caldwell
    Joe Caldwell is a former American professional basketball player best known for his scoring and athleticism in both the NBA and ABA during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. Vernard Eller
    Vernard Eller was an American theologian, author, and Church of the Brethren minister known for his influential writings on radical discipleship, simplicity, and the church’s relationship to power.
  • 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: Herschel Daugherty
Triple: [Alfred Hitchcock Presents, featuredDirector, Herschel Daugherty]
Generated description
Herschel Daugherty was an American film and television director best known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century TV dramas and anthology series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herschel Daugherty
Target entity description: Herschel Daugherty was an American film and television director best known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century TV dramas and anthology series.
  • A. Sherman Adams
    Sherman Adams was an American politician and close aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, best known for his influential role in the Eisenhower administration and his resignation amid a gifts scandal.
  • B. Elam Ferguson
    Elam Ferguson is a formerly enslaved man who becomes a central figure in the post–Civil War frontier drama of the TV series "Hell on Wheels," navigating racial tensions, violence, and his search for identity and justice.
  • C. Winston Hibler
    Winston Hibler was an American screenwriter, producer, and narrator best known for his long association with Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to classic animated features and nature documentaries.
  • D. Joe Caldwell
    Joe Caldwell is a former American professional basketball player best known for his scoring and athleticism in both the NBA and ABA during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. Vernard Eller
    Vernard Eller was an American theologian, author, and Church of the Brethren minister known for his influential writings on radical discipleship, simplicity, and the church’s relationship to power.
  • 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_69a49429f5ec8190a6a205eb0ae81e5e completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bf15423481909cb3e661e58d3d94 completed March 1, 2026, 10:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae02f319788190ac9a634803154832 completed March 8, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae03647d5881908c5952dd3e2015a7 completed March 8, 2026, 11:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae03f3611c8190b1cb90c9e59429cc completed March 8, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.