Triple

T15254114
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Deborah Kara Unger E364598 entity
Predicate portrayedCharacter P1668 FINISHED
Object Catherine Ballard
Catherine Ballard is a central character in David Cronenberg’s film "Crash," known for her involvement in a subculture that eroticizes car accidents.
E1260065 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: Catherine Ballard | Statement: [Deborah Kara Unger, portrayedCharacter, Catherine Ballard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catherine Ballard
Context triple: [Deborah Kara Unger, portrayedCharacter, Catherine Ballard]
  • A. Catherine Hill
    Catherine Hill is a steep, cobbled street in the Somerset town of Frome, known for its independent shops, historic buildings, and role as a focal point of the town’s artisan quarter.
  • B. Catherine Barkley
    Catherine Barkley is a central character in Ernest Hemingway's novel "A Farewell to Arms," known as a British nurse whose tragic love affair with an American ambulance driver unfolds against the backdrop of World War I.
  • C. Catherine Carswell
    Catherine Carswell was a pioneering Scottish novelist, biographer, and critic whose bold, modernist work and support for contemporary writers made her a significant voice in early 20th-century Scottish literature.
  • D. Catherine Reynolds
    Catherine Reynolds is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Reynolds surname.
  • E. Catherine Willard
    Catherine Willard was the wife of American actor Ralph Bellamy, known primarily for her marriage to the prominent film and stage star.
  • 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: Catherine Ballard
Triple: [Deborah Kara Unger, portrayedCharacter, Catherine Ballard]
Generated description
Catherine Ballard is a central character in David Cronenberg’s film "Crash," known for her involvement in a subculture that eroticizes car accidents.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catherine Ballard
Target entity description: Catherine Ballard is a central character in David Cronenberg’s film "Crash," known for her involvement in a subculture that eroticizes car accidents.
  • A. Catherine Hill
    Catherine Hill is a steep, cobbled street in the Somerset town of Frome, known for its independent shops, historic buildings, and role as a focal point of the town’s artisan quarter.
  • B. Catherine Barkley
    Catherine Barkley is a central character in Ernest Hemingway's novel "A Farewell to Arms," known as a British nurse whose tragic love affair with an American ambulance driver unfolds against the backdrop of World War I.
  • C. Catherine Carswell
    Catherine Carswell was a pioneering Scottish novelist, biographer, and critic whose bold, modernist work and support for contemporary writers made her a significant voice in early 20th-century Scottish literature.
  • D. Catherine Reynolds
    Catherine Reynolds is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Reynolds surname.
  • E. Catherine Willard
    Catherine Willard was the wife of American actor Ralph Bellamy, known primarily for her marriage to the prominent film and stage star.
  • 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_69d85a0dde7481908fc64d1e82d5d20d completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e007f8cb308190933c4478aa096e24 completed April 15, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01792dc0b08190a0871959ce752313 completed May 11, 2026, 6:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0179f16af481909f409adb5367f021 completed May 11, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a017ad8480881909ca9a9982585b08d completed May 11, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:13 a.m.