Triple

T13796615
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Die Hard 2 E331532 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Richard Thornburg
Richard Thornburg is an obnoxious and sensationalist television news reporter who appears in the Die Hard film series, often complicating crises with his reckless pursuit of a story.
 E1061744 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: Richard Thornburg | Statement: [Die Hard 2, character, Richard Thornburg]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard Thornburg
Context triple: [Die Hard 2, character, Richard Thornburg]
  • A. Rich Thurston
    Rich Thurston is a musician best known as a performer associated with the hardcore band Culture and its album "Born of You."
  • B. Ben Gilley
    Ben Gilley is an American filmmaker and cultural organizer best known for creating the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival, a pioneering event celebrating adventure, environmental, and social-issue documentaries.
  • C. Ted Moore
    Ted Moore was an acclaimed British cinematographer best known for his work on several early James Bond films and other major 1960s productions.
  • D. Michael Kuhn
    Michael Kuhn is a British film producer known for backing acclaimed independent and arthouse films, including the biographical comedy-drama "Florence Foster Jenkins."
  • E. John Morris
    John Morris is a film producer best known for his work on mainstream Hollywood comedies, including the family sequel "Daddy's Home 2."
  • 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: Richard Thornburg
Triple: [Die Hard 2, character, Richard Thornburg]
Generated description
Richard Thornburg is an obnoxious and sensationalist television news reporter who appears in the Die Hard film series, often complicating crises with his reckless pursuit of a story.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard Thornburg
Target entity description: Richard Thornburg is an obnoxious and sensationalist television news reporter who appears in the Die Hard film series, often complicating crises with his reckless pursuit of a story.
  • A. Rich Thurston
    Rich Thurston is a musician best known as a performer associated with the hardcore band Culture and its album "Born of You."
  • B. Ben Gilley
    Ben Gilley is an American filmmaker and cultural organizer best known for creating the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival, a pioneering event celebrating adventure, environmental, and social-issue documentaries.
  • C. Ted Moore
    Ted Moore was an acclaimed British cinematographer best known for his work on several early James Bond films and other major 1960s productions.
  • D. Michael Kuhn
    Michael Kuhn is a British film producer known for backing acclaimed independent and arthouse films, including the biographical comedy-drama "Florence Foster Jenkins."
  • E. John Morris
    John Morris is a film producer best known for his work on mainstream Hollywood comedies, including the family sequel "Daddy's Home 2."
  • 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_69d81c58feb08190a77bca8bf7d6d20f completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de025be1f08190aac525d72d7dc0c3 completed April 14, 2026, 9:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7b086d6d48190b823ed0a4403fbc5 completed May 3, 2026, 8:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7b138158c8190957d43d529c37fa4 completed May 3, 2026, 8:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7b1e0ab948190a046a68aa5e029a6 completed May 3, 2026, 8:36 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:11 p.m.