Triple

T15193877
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Goin' South E363094 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object John Herman Shaner
John Herman Shaner was an American screenwriter best known for his work on films such as the Western comedy "Goin' South."
E1152210 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: John Herman Shaner | Statement: [Goin' South, screenwriter, John Herman Shaner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Herman Shaner
Context triple: [Goin' South, screenwriter, John Herman Shaner]
  • A. Allan Shivers
    Allan Shivers was a mid-20th-century American politician who served as governor of Texas and was influential in the state's conservative Democratic politics.
  • B. John Gilleland
    John Gilleland was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the experimental Civil War-era Double-Barreled Cannon in Athens, Georgia.
  • C. Harold Vermilyea
    Harold Vermilyea was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in stage, film, and radio productions during the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. Eaton L. Dickey
    Eaton L. Dickey was an American diplomat who served as a U.S. ambassador, notably representing the United States in Panama.
  • E. F. B. Meek
    F. B. Meek was a 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive work on fossil invertebrates and contributions to early geological surveys in the United States.
  • 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: John Herman Shaner
Triple: [Goin' South, screenwriter, John Herman Shaner]
Generated description
John Herman Shaner was an American screenwriter best known for his work on films such as the Western comedy "Goin' South."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Herman Shaner
Target entity description: John Herman Shaner was an American screenwriter best known for his work on films such as the Western comedy "Goin' South."
  • A. Allan Shivers
    Allan Shivers was a mid-20th-century American politician who served as governor of Texas and was influential in the state's conservative Democratic politics.
  • B. John Gilleland
    John Gilleland was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the experimental Civil War-era Double-Barreled Cannon in Athens, Georgia.
  • C. Harold Vermilyea
    Harold Vermilyea was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in stage, film, and radio productions during the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. Eaton L. Dickey
    Eaton L. Dickey was an American diplomat who served as a U.S. ambassador, notably representing the United States in Panama.
  • E. F. B. Meek
    F. B. Meek was a 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive work on fossil invertebrates and contributions to early geological surveys in the United States.
  • 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_69d85a09a39c81908759f23268e2d408 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0067eb710819085211fd05d5fa5f0 completed April 15, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff01dc23d081908ad6985bae5741ce completed May 9, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff02fa44dc8190b536101171d907c3 completed May 9, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff04844a8c8190868a3bb5c363f1a3 completed May 9, 2026, 9:55 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:10 a.m.