Triple

T12804414
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Limelight E306106 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Billy Corben
Billy Corben is an American documentary filmmaker best known for co-founding Rakontur and directing pop-culture and true-crime documentaries such as "Cocaine Cowboys."
E1004625 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: Billy Corben | Statement: [Limelight, director, Billy Corben]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy Corben
Context triple: [Limelight, director, Billy Corben]
  • A. Karel Shook
    Karel Shook was an influential American ballet teacher and choreographer best known as the co-founder and principal teacher of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, where he helped train generations of Black classical dancers.
  • B. Robert Slaughter
    Robert Slaughter was the husband of longtime U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter.
  • C. Billy Talbot
    Billy Talbot is an American bassist best known as a founding member of Neil Young’s backing band Crazy Horse.
  • D. Dave Cravens
    Dave Cravens is a video game industry professional known for his work at the development studio High Moon Studios.
  • E. Curtis Stigers
    Curtis Stigers is an American jazz and soul-influenced singer, saxophonist, and songwriter known for his early 1990s pop hits and later critically acclaimed jazz recordings.
  • 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: Billy Corben
Triple: [Limelight, director, Billy Corben]
Generated description
Billy Corben is an American documentary filmmaker best known for co-founding Rakontur and directing pop-culture and true-crime documentaries such as "Cocaine Cowboys."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy Corben
Target entity description: Billy Corben is an American documentary filmmaker best known for co-founding Rakontur and directing pop-culture and true-crime documentaries such as "Cocaine Cowboys."
  • A. Karel Shook
    Karel Shook was an influential American ballet teacher and choreographer best known as the co-founder and principal teacher of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, where he helped train generations of Black classical dancers.
  • B. Robert Slaughter
    Robert Slaughter was the husband of longtime U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter.
  • C. Billy Talbot
    Billy Talbot is an American bassist best known as a founding member of Neil Young’s backing band Crazy Horse.
  • D. Dave Cravens
    Dave Cravens is a video game industry professional known for his work at the development studio High Moon Studios.
  • E. Curtis Stigers
    Curtis Stigers is an American jazz and soul-influenced singer, saxophonist, and songwriter known for his early 1990s pop hits and later critically acclaimed jazz recordings.
  • 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_69d7bdf366888190a8cccb982606889c completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96e7e3be48190ba9159c9f1ac2ccd completed April 10, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f68ec463f08190822e5235362cf584 completed May 2, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6908cb8ec8190855b217c13a51f16 completed May 3, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6917688508190ae5a64494eaadce7 completed May 3, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:30 p.m.