Triple
T13701080
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Spawn (1997 film) |
E328517
|
entity |
| Predicate | creatorOfSourceMaterial |
P90019
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Todd McFarlane |
E578095
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Todd McFarlane | Statement: [Spawn (1997 film), creatorOfSourceMaterial, Todd McFarlane]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Todd McFarlane Context triple: [Spawn (1997 film), creatorOfSourceMaterial, Todd McFarlane]
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A.
Todd McFarlane
chosen
Todd McFarlane is a Canadian comic book creator, artist, and entrepreneur best known for co-creating the character Venom at Marvel and for his creator-owned series Spawn and its multimedia adaptations.
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B.
Rob Liefeld
Rob Liefeld is an American comic book artist and writer best known as a prominent 1990s Marvel creator and Image Comics co-founder whose dynamic, exaggerated style helped define the era’s superhero aesthetics.
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C.
Jonathan Hickman
Jonathan Hickman is an American comic book writer and designer best known for his ambitious, intricately plotted runs at Marvel Comics, including major events like Secret Wars and influential work on titles such as Fantastic Four, Avengers, and X-Men.
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D.
Don McGregor
Don McGregor is an American comic book writer best known for his influential 1970s work at Marvel, particularly on Black Panther and Killraven, where he helped pioneer more mature, socially conscious storytelling in mainstream comics.
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E.
John Hickman
John Hickman was a 19th-century American lawyer and anti-slavery Republican politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d8076ff62081908a7bd79889edd7a0 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69dbc879adc88190b03f1cf815b71061 |
completed | April 12, 2026, 4:29 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f79d50f34c8190ac5b4e09ab57baa9 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 7:09 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:54 p.m.