Triple

T12503073
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject If I Were King (1938 film) E298877 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object John Balderston
John Balderston was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting classic horror and fantasy works for Hollywood in the early 20th century, including contributions to films like "Dracula" and "Frankenstein."
E1002144 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: John Balderston | Statement: [If I Were King (1938 film), screenwriter, John Balderston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Balderston
Context triple: [If I Were King (1938 film), screenwriter, John Balderston]
  • A. John Brisker
    John Brisker was a high-scoring and notoriously tough American basketball player of the late 1960s and early 1970s, remembered both for his ABA/NBA play and his mysterious disappearance in Uganda.
  • B. Roger Berlind
    Roger Berlind was a prominent American theatrical producer and financier known for backing numerous successful Broadway plays and musicals.
  • C. John Eisendrath
    John Eisendrath is a television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "The Blacklist" and "Alias."
  • D. Kenneth Biller
    Kenneth Biller is an American television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "Star Trek: Voyager" and the anthology drama "Genius."
  • E. Paul Syverson
    Paul Syverson is a computer scientist and cryptographer best known as one of the original designers of onion routing, the privacy technology underlying the Tor anonymity network.
  • 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: John Balderston
Triple: [If I Were King (1938 film), screenwriter, John Balderston]
Generated description
John Balderston was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting classic horror and fantasy works for Hollywood in the early 20th century, including contributions to films like "Dracula" and "Frankenstein."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Balderston
Target entity description: John Balderston was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting classic horror and fantasy works for Hollywood in the early 20th century, including contributions to films like "Dracula" and "Frankenstein."
  • A. John Brisker
    John Brisker was a high-scoring and notoriously tough American basketball player of the late 1960s and early 1970s, remembered both for his ABA/NBA play and his mysterious disappearance in Uganda.
  • B. Roger Berlind
    Roger Berlind was a prominent American theatrical producer and financier known for backing numerous successful Broadway plays and musicals.
  • C. John Eisendrath
    John Eisendrath is a television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "The Blacklist" and "Alias."
  • D. Kenneth Biller
    Kenneth Biller is an American television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "Star Trek: Voyager" and the anthology drama "Genius."
  • E. Paul Syverson
    Paul Syverson is a computer scientist and cryptographer best known as one of the original designers of onion routing, the privacy technology underlying the Tor anonymity network.
  • 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_69d6ada4cd388190ae3bbf83ff87057a completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94dfcea188190a929db1aabe1a286 completed April 10, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f684d4821c8190aa29db4b35262e8e completed May 2, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f687100b1c8190a9aa530a5844282f completed May 2, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f68774c6e08190a8f47405d5d972c7 completed May 2, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:57 p.m.