Triple

T15698334
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Too Many Parents E380523 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Robert F. McGowan
Robert F. McGowan was an American film director best known for his work on the "Our Gang" (Little Rascals) comedy shorts during the silent and early sound eras.
E1253477 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: Robert F. McGowan | Statement: [Too Many Parents, director, Robert F. McGowan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert F. McGowan
Context triple: [Too Many Parents, director, Robert F. McGowan]
  • A. William A. McGonagle
    William A. McGonagle was an American businessman best known as one of the founders of the multinational manufacturing and technology company 3M.
  • B. Vincent J. McDonough
    Vincent J. McDonough was a prominent figure at Georgetown University, honored for his contributions to the institution through the naming of McDonough Gymnasium.
  • C. James T. McNamara
    James T. McNamara was a public official who served as New York State's Industrial Commissioner, overseeing labor and industry-related policies and regulations.
  • D. William C. McGann
    William C. McGann was an early 20th-century American cinematographer and film director who helped shape the visual style of Hollywood cinema.
  • E. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • 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: Robert F. McGowan
Triple: [Too Many Parents, director, Robert F. McGowan]
Generated description
Robert F. McGowan was an American film director best known for his work on the "Our Gang" (Little Rascals) comedy shorts during the silent and early sound eras.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert F. McGowan
Target entity description: Robert F. McGowan was an American film director best known for his work on the "Our Gang" (Little Rascals) comedy shorts during the silent and early sound eras.
  • A. William A. McGonagle
    William A. McGonagle was an American businessman best known as one of the founders of the multinational manufacturing and technology company 3M.
  • B. Vincent J. McDonough
    Vincent J. McDonough was a prominent figure at Georgetown University, honored for his contributions to the institution through the naming of McDonough Gymnasium.
  • C. James T. McNamara
    James T. McNamara was a public official who served as New York State's Industrial Commissioner, overseeing labor and industry-related policies and regulations.
  • D. William C. McGann
    William C. McGann was an early 20th-century American cinematographer and film director who helped shape the visual style of Hollywood cinema.
  • E. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • 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_69d86d99e860819094b6957cde470f2c completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04f6c3328819081325b702ca92862 completed April 16, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a014819dfbc8190b39a10647f9ba64c completed May 11, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0148d819f88190a201a31fdcd37b1c completed May 11, 2026, 3:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01493587948190b1a9f7ece8fcf072 completed May 11, 2026, 3:12 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:44 a.m.