Triple

T1437999
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject All the President’s Men E31000 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Alan J. Pakula
Alan J. Pakula was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his politically charged thrillers and character-driven dramas of the 1970s and 1980s.
 E166296 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: Alan J. Pakula | Statement: [All the President’s Men, director, Alan J. Pakula]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alan J. Pakula
Context triple: [All the President’s Men, director, Alan J. Pakula]
  • A. Tom Benedek
    Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
  • B. Ken Hughes
    Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
  • C. Jerry Schatzberg
    Jerry Schatzberg is an American photographer and film director known for his influential work in 1960s music photography and for directing acclaimed films such as "Panic in Needle Park" and "Scarecrow."
  • D. Hal Ashby
    Hal Ashby was an influential American film director and editor of the New Hollywood era, known for acclaimed, offbeat classics such as "Harold and Maude," "Shampoo," and "Being There."
  • E. Barry Levinson
    Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "Diner," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
  • 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: Alan J. Pakula
Triple: [All the President’s Men, director, Alan J. Pakula]
Generated description
Alan J. Pakula was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his politically charged thrillers and character-driven dramas of the 1970s and 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alan J. Pakula
Target entity description: Alan J. Pakula was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his politically charged thrillers and character-driven dramas of the 1970s and 1980s.
  • A. Tom Benedek
    Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
  • B. Ken Hughes
    Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
  • C. Jerry Schatzberg
    Jerry Schatzberg is an American photographer and film director known for his influential work in 1960s music photography and for directing acclaimed films such as "Panic in Needle Park" and "Scarecrow."
  • D. Hal Ashby
    Hal Ashby was an influential American film director and editor of the New Hollywood era, known for acclaimed, offbeat classics such as "Harold and Maude," "Shampoo," and "Being There."
  • E. Barry Levinson
    Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "Diner," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
  • 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_69a4991633388190a4d61b5a98aa407a completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c5059ef88190af20e796acdb2058 completed March 1, 2026, 11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad08ba2cf88190a859bb0974761968 completed March 8, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad0bc943488190892a88f4c0e392b9 completed March 8, 2026, 5:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0c6abed48190815252fabc992c48 completed March 8, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8 p.m.