Triple

T12782822
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lost in America E305548 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object David Howard
David Howard is the neurotic, middle-aged advertising executive whose impulsive decision to quit his job and travel the country with his wife drives the satirical road-trip narrative of the film "Lost in America."
E1013373 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: David Howard | Statement: [Lost in America, mainCharacter, David Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Howard
Context triple: [Lost in America, mainCharacter, David Howard]
  • A. David Howard
    David Howard is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction comedy film "Galaxy Quest."
  • B. Daniel Howitt
    Daniel Howitt is the mysterious, benevolent stranger who becomes a central figure in the Ozark mountain community in the film "The Shepherd of the Hills" (1941).
  • C. Geoffrey Howard
    Geoffrey Howard is a personal name shared by several notable individuals, including figures in British politics, law, and public service.
  • D. Donald Howard
    Donald Howard was a British politician best known for serving on the controversial Simon Commission that investigated constitutional reform in colonial India.
  • E. Douglas Howard
    Douglas Howard was an English noblewoman of the 16th century, notable as the daughter of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, and for her connections to the Tudor court.
  • 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: David Howard
Triple: [Lost in America, mainCharacter, David Howard]
Generated description
David Howard is the neurotic, middle-aged advertising executive whose impulsive decision to quit his job and travel the country with his wife drives the satirical road-trip narrative of the film "Lost in America."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Howard
Target entity description: David Howard is the neurotic, middle-aged advertising executive whose impulsive decision to quit his job and travel the country with his wife drives the satirical road-trip narrative of the film "Lost in America."
  • A. David Howard
    David Howard is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction comedy film "Galaxy Quest."
  • B. Daniel Howitt
    Daniel Howitt is the mysterious, benevolent stranger who becomes a central figure in the Ozark mountain community in the film "The Shepherd of the Hills" (1941).
  • C. Geoffrey Howard
    Geoffrey Howard is a personal name shared by several notable individuals, including figures in British politics, law, and public service.
  • D. Donald Howard
    Donald Howard was a British politician best known for serving on the controversial Simon Commission that investigated constitutional reform in colonial India.
  • E. Douglas Howard
    Douglas Howard was an English noblewoman of the 16th century, notable as the daughter of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, and for her connections to the Tudor court.
  • 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_69d7bdf2b43c819098ae5aa68e61ea58 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96e5b52048190b279b7ad066efe9f completed April 10, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6b8c75a048190aee92e50017c214e completed May 3, 2026, 2:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b9a1ca54819085da2ca592bf5219 completed May 3, 2026, 2:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6bb03d8d88190930edd0f49fec8aa completed May 3, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.