Triple

T16415631
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Buttolph E398675 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Rope of Sand
Rope of Sand is a 1949 film noir adventure drama set in the North African desert, known for its tale of greed and betrayal surrounding a diamond-rich territory.
 E1211366 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Rope of Sand | Statement: [David Buttolph, notableWork, Rope of Sand]

Disambiguation candidates (2 decisions)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Rope of Sand
Context triple: [David Buttolph, notableWork, Rope of Sand]
  • A. Captains of the Sands
    Captains of the Sands is a celebrated Brazilian novel by Jorge Amado that portrays the lives of a gang of street children struggling to survive in the city of Salvador.
  • B. Arabian Sands
    Arabian Sands is a classic travel memoir by Wilfred Thesiger recounting his arduous mid-20th-century journeys across the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula and the vanishing Bedouin way of life.
  • C. Sea of Sand
    The Sea of Sand is a vast, otherworldly volcanic sand plain surrounding Mount Bromo in East Java, Indonesia, renowned for its stark, lunar-like landscape.
  • D. The Black Camel
    The Black Camel is a 1931 mystery film in the Charlie Chan series, notable for starring Warner Oland as the famous detective.
  • E. A Death in the Desert
    "A Death in the Desert" is a dramatic monologue poem by Robert Browning that presents a fictional account of the Apostle John’s final reflections on faith, doubt, and the transmission of Christian truth.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Rope of Sand
Target entity description: Rope of Sand is a 1949 film noir adventure drama set in the North African desert, known for its tale of greed and betrayal surrounding a diamond-rich territory.
  • A. Captains of the Sands
    Captains of the Sands is a celebrated Brazilian novel by Jorge Amado that portrays the lives of a gang of street children struggling to survive in the city of Salvador.
  • B. Arabian Sands
    Arabian Sands is a classic travel memoir by Wilfred Thesiger recounting his arduous mid-20th-century journeys across the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula and the vanishing Bedouin way of life.
  • C. Sea of Sand
    The Sea of Sand is a vast, otherworldly volcanic sand plain surrounding Mount Bromo in East Java, Indonesia, renowned for its stark, lunar-like landscape.
  • D. The Black Camel
    The Black Camel is a 1931 mystery film in the Charlie Chan series, notable for starring Warner Oland as the famous detective.
  • E. A Death in the Desert
    "A Death in the Desert" is a dramatic monologue poem by Robert Browning that presents a fictional account of the Apostle John’s final reflections on faith, doubt, and the transmission of Christian truth.
  • F. None of above. chosen

How the object was described

The object's one-sentence description was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the object name and this triple as context.

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: Rope of Sand
Triple: [David Buttolph, notableWork, Rope of Sand]
Generated description
Rope of Sand is a 1949 film noir adventure drama set in the North African desert, known for its tale of greed and betrayal surrounding a diamond-rich territory.

Provenance (5 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d87f2b9024819085c20e52de95d583 elicitation completed
NER batch_69e3287741008190856882b7f34024fc ner completed
NED1 batch_6a003c6a89988190a44515f1ca08099f ned_source_triple completed
NED2 batch_6a003e86a9f48190ae39ec170c776604 ned_description completed
NEDg batch_6a003db7b0308190bc4b8065cf2c01ec nedg completed
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:09 a.m.