Triple

T12782985
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Drive (2011 film) E305552 entity
Predicate basedOnWorkAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object James Sallis
James Sallis is an American crime and science fiction writer best known for his neo-noir novel "Drive," which was adapted into the 2011 film of the same name.
E1004914 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: James Sallis | Statement: [Drive (2011 film), basedOnWorkAuthor, James Sallis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Sallis
Context triple: [Drive (2011 film), basedOnWorkAuthor, James Sallis]
  • A. Thomas McGuane
    Thomas McGuane is an American novelist and screenwriter known for his sharp, darkly comic portrayals of the American West and contemporary rural life.
  • B. Louis Davenport
    Louis Davenport was a prominent early 20th-century hotelier and businessman best known for founding and developing the luxury Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington.
  • C. Elmore Brooks
    Elmore Brooks, better known as Elmore James, was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter celebrated as the "King of the Slide Guitar."
  • D. Ian Blume
    Ian Blume is a film editor known for his work on the drama feature "Ben Is Back."
  • E. E. Stanley Crawford
    E. Stanley Crawford was a prominent American cardiovascular surgeon and academic known for his pioneering work in aortic surgery and contributions to vascular and thoracic surgical techniques.
  • 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: James Sallis
Triple: [Drive (2011 film), basedOnWorkAuthor, James Sallis]
Generated description
James Sallis is an American crime and science fiction writer best known for his neo-noir novel "Drive," which was adapted into the 2011 film of the same name.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Sallis
Target entity description: James Sallis is an American crime and science fiction writer best known for his neo-noir novel "Drive," which was adapted into the 2011 film of the same name.
  • A. Thomas McGuane
    Thomas McGuane is an American novelist and screenwriter known for his sharp, darkly comic portrayals of the American West and contemporary rural life.
  • B. Louis Davenport
    Louis Davenport was a prominent early 20th-century hotelier and businessman best known for founding and developing the luxury Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington.
  • C. Elmore Brooks
    Elmore Brooks, better known as Elmore James, was an influential American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter celebrated as the "King of the Slide Guitar."
  • D. Ian Blume
    Ian Blume is a film editor known for his work on the drama feature "Ben Is Back."
  • E. E. Stanley Crawford
    E. Stanley Crawford was a prominent American cardiovascular surgeon and academic known for his pioneering work in aortic surgery and contributions to vascular and thoracic surgical techniques.
  • 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_69f68ebc75bc81908bad7fb06af674a9 completed May 2, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f68fb6790881908c1d6f53b54906a2 completed May 2, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f690c0bd208190bd1f04a9640ad1ce completed May 3, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.