Triple

T14060438
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Shaggy Dog E338329 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Charles Barton
Charles Barton was an American film and television director best known for his work on mid-20th-century comedies and family films.
E1077941 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: Charles Barton | Statement: [The Shaggy Dog, director, Charles Barton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Barton
Context triple: [The Shaggy Dog, director, Charles Barton]
  • A. Henry Markham
    Henry Markham was an American politician who served as the 18th governor of California from 1891 to 1895.
  • B. Samuel Fleming
    Samuel Fleming was an early settler and tavern owner in colonial New Jersey whose prominence in the area led to the town of Flemington being named in his honor.
  • C. Henry Marion Durand
    Henry Marion Durand was a 19th-century British Indian Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab and was known for his military and political roles in British India.
  • D. Edward Payson Ripley
    Edward Payson Ripley was an American railroad executive best known for serving as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway during its major period of expansion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Robert Burks
    Robert Burks was an American cinematographer best known for his long collaboration with director Alfred Hitchcock, contributing to the distinctive visual style of many of Hitchcock’s classic films.
  • 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: Charles Barton
Triple: [The Shaggy Dog, director, Charles Barton]
Generated description
Charles Barton was an American film and television director best known for his work on mid-20th-century comedies and family films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Barton
Target entity description: Charles Barton was an American film and television director best known for his work on mid-20th-century comedies and family films.
  • A. Henry Markham
    Henry Markham was an American politician who served as the 18th governor of California from 1891 to 1895.
  • B. Samuel Fleming
    Samuel Fleming was an early settler and tavern owner in colonial New Jersey whose prominence in the area led to the town of Flemington being named in his honor.
  • C. Henry Marion Durand
    Henry Marion Durand was a 19th-century British Indian Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab and was known for his military and political roles in British India.
  • D. Edward Payson Ripley
    Edward Payson Ripley was an American railroad executive best known for serving as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway during its major period of expansion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Robert Burks
    Robert Burks was an American cinematographer best known for his long collaboration with director Alfred Hitchcock, contributing to the distinctive visual style of many of Hitchcock’s classic films.
  • 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_69d81c67ba6c819091935650dfb3b895 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de5686f51c81908c33143ecbaae83d completed April 14, 2026, 3 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fcb6654850819083262f3fb981eb1a completed May 7, 2026, 3:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fcc4fa09448190b662af829712e657 completed May 7, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fcc5d162c081908750fed589ed2d69 completed May 7, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:21 p.m.