Triple

T1637193
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Polar Express E35382 entity
Predicate starred P5563 FINISHED
Object Leslie Zemeckis
Leslie Zemeckis is an American actress, author, and documentary filmmaker known for her work in film and her explorations of burlesque and classic Hollywood history.
 E207350 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: Leslie Zemeckis | Statement: [The Polar Express, starred, Leslie Zemeckis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Leslie Zemeckis
Context triple: [The Polar Express, starred, Leslie Zemeckis]
  • A. Robert Zemeckis
    Robert Zemeckis is an American filmmaker known for directing innovative and commercially successful movies such as the Back to the Future trilogy, Forrest Gump, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
  • B. Steven Spielberg
    Steven Spielberg is an acclaimed American film director, producer, and screenwriter known for shaping modern cinema with classics such as Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, and Schindler’s List.
  • C. Ron Howard
    Ron Howard is an American filmmaker and former child actor best known for directing acclaimed films such as "A Beautiful Mind," "Apollo 13," and "Cocoon."
  • D. Chris Columbus
    Chris Columbus is an American filmmaker best known for directing the first two Harry Potter films and "Home Alone," as well as producing numerous successful family-oriented movies.
  • E. Joel Schumacher
    Joel Schumacher was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for stylish genre films such as "The Lost Boys," "Falling Down," and two Batman movies in the 1990s.
  • 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: Leslie Zemeckis
Triple: [The Polar Express, starred, Leslie Zemeckis]
Generated description
Leslie Zemeckis is an American actress, author, and documentary filmmaker known for her work in film and her explorations of burlesque and classic Hollywood history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Leslie Zemeckis
Target entity description: Leslie Zemeckis is an American actress, author, and documentary filmmaker known for her work in film and her explorations of burlesque and classic Hollywood history.
  • A. Robert Zemeckis
    Robert Zemeckis is an American filmmaker known for directing innovative and commercially successful movies such as the Back to the Future trilogy, Forrest Gump, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
  • B. Steven Spielberg
    Steven Spielberg is an acclaimed American film director, producer, and screenwriter known for shaping modern cinema with classics such as Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, and Schindler’s List.
  • C. Ron Howard
    Ron Howard is an American filmmaker and former child actor best known for directing acclaimed films such as "A Beautiful Mind," "Apollo 13," and "Cocoon."
  • D. Chris Columbus
    Chris Columbus is an American filmmaker best known for directing the first two Harry Potter films and "Home Alone," as well as producing numerous successful family-oriented movies.
  • E. Joel Schumacher
    Joel Schumacher was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for stylish genre films such as "The Lost Boys," "Falling Down," and two Batman movies in the 1990s.
  • 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_69a886036bc081909ff5de16dbe5e8ea completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90a192d588190bbfa4693ed787c05 completed March 5, 2026, 4:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69add1ac4b9c8190a7d0fa610a77f9c3 completed March 8, 2026, 7:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69add2729498819082f6595c57f545a8 completed March 8, 2026, 7:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69add32803a48190b8ff08c605790f22 completed March 8, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.