Triple

T1223058
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Way We Were E26267 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack was an American film director, producer, and actor known for acclaimed movies such as "Out of Africa," "Tootsie," and "The Firm."
E152438 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: Sydney Pollack | Statement: [The Way We Were, director, Sydney Pollack]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sydney Pollack
Context triple: [The Way We Were, director, Sydney Pollack]
  • A. Barry Levinson
    Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "Diner," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
  • B. Jonathan Demme
    Jonathan Demme was an American film director best known for his eclectic body of work, including the Oscar-winning thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" and acclaimed music documentaries like "Stop Making Sense."
  • C. Alan Parker
    Alan Parker was a renowned British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for acclaimed works such as "Midnight Express," "Fame," and "Mississippi Burning."
  • D. Blake Edwards
    Blake Edwards was an American filmmaker best known for his stylish comedies and classics like the Pink Panther series and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
  • E. Mike Nichols
    Mike Nichols was an acclaimed American film and theater director known for influential works like "The Graduate" and his sharp, character-driven storytelling that helped define a generation of cinema.
  • 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: Sydney Pollack
Triple: [The Way We Were, director, Sydney Pollack]
Generated description
Sydney Pollack was an American film director, producer, and actor known for acclaimed movies such as "Out of Africa," "Tootsie," and "The Firm."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sydney Pollack
Target entity description: Sydney Pollack was an American film director, producer, and actor known for acclaimed movies such as "Out of Africa," "Tootsie," and "The Firm."
  • A. Barry Levinson
    Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "Diner," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
  • B. Jonathan Demme
    Jonathan Demme was an American film director best known for his eclectic body of work, including the Oscar-winning thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" and acclaimed music documentaries like "Stop Making Sense."
  • C. Alan Parker
    Alan Parker was a renowned British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for acclaimed works such as "Midnight Express," "Fame," and "Mississippi Burning."
  • D. Blake Edwards
    Blake Edwards was an American filmmaker best known for his stylish comedies and classics like the Pink Panther series and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
  • E. Mike Nichols
    Mike Nichols was an acclaimed American film and theater director known for influential works like "The Graduate" and his sharp, character-driven storytelling that helped define a generation of cinema.
  • 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_69a49484688c8190a1bf285eb396a8b6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4be21a2bc819094b47580d7c5cdf8 completed March 1, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acbf1a58248190a270ae5baa18d0d6 completed March 8, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acc0ea3ee88190a7938f07d508ed9e completed March 8, 2026, 12:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc13d2168819090bb9d68180b2699 completed March 8, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.