Triple

T13507770
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Killing Them Softly E321055 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Jackie Cogan
Jackie Cogan is a professional mob enforcer and hitman who methodically investigates and punishes those responsible for a heist in the crime film "Killing Them Softly."
E1045635 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: Jackie Cogan | Statement: [Killing Them Softly, mainCharacter, Jackie Cogan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jackie Cogan
Context triple: [Killing Them Softly, mainCharacter, Jackie Cogan]
  • A. Jackie Coogan
    Jackie Coogan was an American actor who became one of the first major child stars in film history and later gained renewed fame as Uncle Fester on the television series "The Addams Family."
  • B. Nat Jaffe
    Nat Jaffe is a central character in Michael Chabon’s novel "Telegraph Avenue," depicted as one of the intertwined figures navigating family, culture, and community in contemporary Oakland and Berkeley.
  • C. Frankie Elkin
    Frankie Elkin is a recurring protagonist in Lisa Gardner’s crime novels, known as an ordinary yet relentless woman who dedicates her life to finding missing people that the world has forgotten.
  • D. Marion Jacobs
    Marion Jacobs is the birth name of Little Walter, the influential American blues harmonica player and singer known for revolutionizing amplified harmonica in Chicago blues.
  • E. Joan Caulfield
    Joan Caulfield was an American film and television actress best known for her roles in 1940s and 1950s Hollywood romantic comedies and dramas.
  • 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: Jackie Cogan
Triple: [Killing Them Softly, mainCharacter, Jackie Cogan]
Generated description
Jackie Cogan is a professional mob enforcer and hitman who methodically investigates and punishes those responsible for a heist in the crime film "Killing Them Softly."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jackie Cogan
Target entity description: Jackie Cogan is a professional mob enforcer and hitman who methodically investigates and punishes those responsible for a heist in the crime film "Killing Them Softly."
  • A. Jackie Coogan
    Jackie Coogan was an American actor who became one of the first major child stars in film history and later gained renewed fame as Uncle Fester on the television series "The Addams Family."
  • B. Nat Jaffe
    Nat Jaffe is a central character in Michael Chabon’s novel "Telegraph Avenue," depicted as one of the intertwined figures navigating family, culture, and community in contemporary Oakland and Berkeley.
  • C. Frankie Elkin
    Frankie Elkin is a recurring protagonist in Lisa Gardner’s crime novels, known as an ordinary yet relentless woman who dedicates her life to finding missing people that the world has forgotten.
  • D. Marion Jacobs
    Marion Jacobs is the birth name of Little Walter, the influential American blues harmonica player and singer known for revolutionizing amplified harmonica in Chicago blues.
  • E. Joan Caulfield
    Joan Caulfield was an American film and television actress best known for her roles in 1940s and 1950s Hollywood romantic comedies and dramas.
  • 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_69dbaf8259a08190ada13c4a3078f07d completed April 12, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7548e51b881909a3384812556bc3d completed May 3, 2026, 1:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f757108e088190aeec031eccc9aca3 completed May 3, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f757e7322c8190b0e36e8373d42ac4 completed May 3, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:43 p.m.