Triple

T12425148
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ted Kotcheff E296878 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object William Theodore Kotcheff
William Theodore Kotcheff, better known as Ted Kotcheff, is a Canadian film and television director recognized for works such as "First Blood" and "Wake in Fright."
 E992999 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: William Theodore Kotcheff | Statement: [Ted Kotcheff, birthName, William Theodore Kotcheff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Theodore Kotcheff
Context triple: [Ted Kotcheff, birthName, William Theodore Kotcheff]
  • A. Joseph D'Alesandro
    Joseph D'Alesandro is a member of the prominent D'Alesandro political family from Baltimore, Maryland.
  • B. Charles Igor Gorin
    Charles Igor Gorin was an American baritone opera singer and occasional film actor active in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Joseph Ruben
    Joseph Ruben is an American film director and screenwriter known for suspenseful thrillers such as "The Stepfather," "Sleeping with the Enemy," and "The Good Son."
  • D. Walter Scheib
    Walter Scheib was an American chef best known for serving as the White House Executive Chef for the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.
  • E. Marvin Duchow
    Marvin Duchow was a Canadian musicologist and influential professor of music at McGill University, known for his scholarship in Renaissance and Baroque music.
  • 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: William Theodore Kotcheff
Triple: [Ted Kotcheff, birthName, William Theodore Kotcheff]
Generated description
William Theodore Kotcheff, better known as Ted Kotcheff, is a Canadian film and television director recognized for works such as "First Blood" and "Wake in Fright."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Theodore Kotcheff
Target entity description: William Theodore Kotcheff, better known as Ted Kotcheff, is a Canadian film and television director recognized for works such as "First Blood" and "Wake in Fright."
  • A. Joseph D'Alesandro
    Joseph D'Alesandro is a member of the prominent D'Alesandro political family from Baltimore, Maryland.
  • B. Charles Igor Gorin
    Charles Igor Gorin was an American baritone opera singer and occasional film actor active in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Joseph Ruben
    Joseph Ruben is an American film director and screenwriter known for suspenseful thrillers such as "The Stepfather," "Sleeping with the Enemy," and "The Good Son."
  • D. Walter Scheib
    Walter Scheib was an American chef best known for serving as the White House Executive Chef for the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.
  • E. Marvin Duchow
    Marvin Duchow was a Canadian musicologist and influential professor of music at McGill University, known for his scholarship in Renaissance and Baroque music.
  • 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_69d6ada0640c81908c061d7fb3d47786 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94d7b6bd08190b30beba393a5b1e7 completed April 10, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f65ea44a808190af2c5a6633120814 completed May 2, 2026, 8:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f661369d608190b7b4f8b2bcf6e9b3 completed May 2, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f661b369fc81909ced522d7057589e completed May 2, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:55 p.m.