Triple

T13500760
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Airport (1970 film) E320880 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Vernon Demerest
Vernon Demerest is a confident, hotshot airline pilot whose personal and professional crises drive much of the drama in the 1970 disaster film "Airport."
 E1056098 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: Vernon Demerest | Statement: [Airport (1970 film), mainCharacter, Vernon Demerest]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vernon Demerest
Context triple: [Airport (1970 film), mainCharacter, Vernon Demerest]
  • A. John Vinal
    John Vinal was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the town of Vinalhaven, Maine, was named.
  • B. Edward Linn
    Edward Linn was an American writer and journalist best known for co-authoring notable memoirs, including the bank-robbery autobiography "Where the Money Was."
  • C. R. R. Grovey
    R. R. Grovey was the African American plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Grovey v. Townsend, which challenged racially discriminatory primary election practices in Texas.
  • D. Wendell Fertig
    Wendell Fertig was a U.S. Army engineer officer who became a leading guerrilla commander in the Philippines during World War II, organizing resistance against Japanese occupation.
  • E. Paul Bolen
    Paul Bolen is a musician known for being a member of the Celtic rock band O'Malley's March.
  • 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: Vernon Demerest
Triple: [Airport (1970 film), mainCharacter, Vernon Demerest]
Generated description
Vernon Demerest is a confident, hotshot airline pilot whose personal and professional crises drive much of the drama in the 1970 disaster film "Airport."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vernon Demerest
Target entity description: Vernon Demerest is a confident, hotshot airline pilot whose personal and professional crises drive much of the drama in the 1970 disaster film "Airport."
  • A. John Vinal
    John Vinal was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the town of Vinalhaven, Maine, was named.
  • B. Edward Linn
    Edward Linn was an American writer and journalist best known for co-authoring notable memoirs, including the bank-robbery autobiography "Where the Money Was."
  • C. R. R. Grovey
    R. R. Grovey was the African American plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Grovey v. Townsend, which challenged racially discriminatory primary election practices in Texas.
  • D. Wendell Fertig
    Wendell Fertig was a U.S. Army engineer officer who became a leading guerrilla commander in the Philippines during World War II, organizing resistance against Japanese occupation.
  • E. Paul Bolen
    Paul Bolen is a musician known for being a member of the Celtic rock band O'Malley's March.
  • 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_69d807629d6c8190998f1b9bb12d2ed0 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaf50f4a48190a44fc537b78c32fd completed April 12, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7942668f481909c6d892fdfd32c02 completed May 3, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7955fce288190a7e426f467517a91 completed May 3, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7996cddf08190973e493fb788ce7a completed May 3, 2026, 6:52 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:43 p.m.