Triple

T14520103
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pale Rider E340627 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Michael Butler
Michael Butler is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1985 Clint Eastwood Western film "Pale Rider."
E1111809 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: Michael Butler | Statement: [Pale Rider, screenwriter, Michael Butler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Butler
Context triple: [Pale Rider, screenwriter, Michael Butler]
  • A. Michael Butler
    Michael Butler was an American theatrical producer best known for bringing the countercultural musical "Hair" to Broadway and later producing its 1979 film adaptation.
  • B. Michael Butler
    Michael Butler was a film cinematographer best known for his work on the 1976 Western drama "The Missouri Breaks."
  • C. Peter Butler
    Peter Butler is an English football manager and former player known for coaching various national and club teams, including the Liberia national football team.
  • D. Hugh Butler
    Hugh Butler was a screenwriter known for his work on the mid-20th-century British film "Journey into Light."
  • E. Reg Butler
    Reg Butler was a British sculptor known for his expressive, often skeletal metal figures and his prominence in postwar European modernist sculpture.
  • 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: Michael Butler
Triple: [Pale Rider, screenwriter, Michael Butler]
Generated description
Michael Butler is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1985 Clint Eastwood Western film "Pale Rider."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Butler
Target entity description: Michael Butler is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1985 Clint Eastwood Western film "Pale Rider."
  • A. Michael Butler
    Michael Butler was an American theatrical producer best known for bringing the countercultural musical "Hair" to Broadway and later producing its 1979 film adaptation.
  • B. Michael Butler
    Michael Butler was a film cinematographer best known for his work on the 1976 Western drama "The Missouri Breaks."
  • C. Peter Butler
    Peter Butler is an English football manager and former player known for coaching various national and club teams, including the Liberia national football team.
  • D. Hugh Butler
    Hugh Butler was a screenwriter known for his work on the mid-20th-century British film "Journey into Light."
  • E. Reg Butler
    Reg Butler was a British sculptor known for his expressive, often skeletal metal figures and his prominence in postwar European modernist sculpture.
  • 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_69d822d9c0408190b9a2b3643e58bb4d completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de9a70b15c81908773633e989ef704 completed April 14, 2026, 7:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fdd5c1bf988190b1265c3db9a6b590 completed May 8, 2026, 12:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fdd64755c48190bc8d955f96d4f28f completed May 8, 2026, 12:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fdd6a6111081909e40c55d696be55c completed May 8, 2026, 12:27 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:22 a.m.