Triple

T1355830
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elsa Lanchester E28984 entity
Predicate workedWith P398 FINISHED
Object James Whale
James Whale was a British film director best known for his influential early horror classics such as "Frankenstein" (1931) and "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935).
E156687 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 Whale | Statement: [Elsa Lanchester, workedWith, James Whale]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Whale
Context triple: [Elsa Lanchester, workedWith, James Whale]
  • A. Ernest B. Schoedsack
    Ernest B. Schoedsack was an American film director and cinematographer best known for co-directing the classic adventure-horror film "King Kong" (1933).
  • B. Val Lewton
    Val Lewton was a Russian-born American film producer best known for his influential low-budget horror films of the 1940s, including classics like "Cat People" and "I Walked with a Zombie."
  • C. Michael Powell
    Michael Powell is an American bookseller and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores.
  • D. Richard DeMille
    Richard DeMille was an American writer and psychologist known for his critical examinations of Carlos Castaneda’s work and for being the adopted son of famed film director Cecil B. DeMille.
  • E. Maurice Elvey
    Maurice Elvey was a prolific British film director active from the silent era through the mid-20th century, known for his extensive and varied body of work in UK cinema.
  • 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 Whale
Triple: [Elsa Lanchester, workedWith, James Whale]
Generated description
James Whale was a British film director best known for his influential early horror classics such as "Frankenstein" (1931) and "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Whale
Target entity description: James Whale was a British film director best known for his influential early horror classics such as "Frankenstein" (1931) and "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935).
  • A. Ernest B. Schoedsack
    Ernest B. Schoedsack was an American film director and cinematographer best known for co-directing the classic adventure-horror film "King Kong" (1933).
  • B. Val Lewton
    Val Lewton was a Russian-born American film producer best known for his influential low-budget horror films of the 1940s, including classics like "Cat People" and "I Walked with a Zombie."
  • C. Michael Powell
    Michael Powell is an American bookseller and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores.
  • D. Richard DeMille
    Richard DeMille was an American writer and psychologist known for his critical examinations of Carlos Castaneda’s work and for being the adopted son of famed film director Cecil B. DeMille.
  • E. Maurice Elvey
    Maurice Elvey was a prolific British film director active from the silent era through the mid-20th century, known for his extensive and varied body of work in UK cinema.
  • 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_69a498571d248190a0ac9eb02d97097f completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c28c8dd0819082f94c9e7c837c5f completed March 1, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acce6e264481909f7cb907486d3e08 completed March 8, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69accf141c3481909ae5ea849aee7604 completed March 8, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69accfb8acfc8190bba379d8bb114c29 completed March 8, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.