Triple

T16456927
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Usual Suspects E399706 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Todd Hockney
Todd Hockney is a hardened, wisecracking explosives expert and one of the criminal gang members in the neo-noir film "The Usual Suspects."
E1215004 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: Todd Hockney | Statement: [The Usual Suspects, mainCharacter, Todd Hockney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Todd Hockney
Context triple: [The Usual Suspects, mainCharacter, Todd Hockney]
  • A. David Hockney
    David Hockney is a renowned British painter, draftsman, printmaker, photographer, and stage designer, celebrated as a leading figure of 20th-century pop art and for his vibrant, innovative explorations of space, perspective, and technology in art.
  • B. Frank Auerbach
    Frank Auerbach is a German-born British painter renowned for his thickly impastoed, expressive portraits and cityscapes that have made him a leading figure in postwar figurative art.
  • C. Gary Hume
    Gary Hume is a British painter known for his glossy, abstracted depictions of everyday subjects and his prominence within the Young British Artists movement of the late 20th century.
  • D. Howard Hodgkin
    Howard Hodgkin was a British painter and printmaker renowned for his vibrant, abstract works that evoke memory and emotion through bold color and gestural brushwork.
  • E. Lucian Freud
    Lucian Freud was a British painter renowned for his intense, psychologically charged portraits and nudes, and is considered one of the foremost figurative artists of the 20th century.
  • 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: Todd Hockney
Triple: [The Usual Suspects, mainCharacter, Todd Hockney]
Generated description
Todd Hockney is a hardened, wisecracking explosives expert and one of the criminal gang members in the neo-noir film "The Usual Suspects."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Todd Hockney
Target entity description: Todd Hockney is a hardened, wisecracking explosives expert and one of the criminal gang members in the neo-noir film "The Usual Suspects."
  • A. David Hockney
    David Hockney is a renowned British painter, draftsman, printmaker, photographer, and stage designer, celebrated as a leading figure of 20th-century pop art and for his vibrant, innovative explorations of space, perspective, and technology in art.
  • B. Frank Auerbach
    Frank Auerbach is a German-born British painter renowned for his thickly impastoed, expressive portraits and cityscapes that have made him a leading figure in postwar figurative art.
  • C. Gary Hume
    Gary Hume is a British painter known for his glossy, abstracted depictions of everyday subjects and his prominence within the Young British Artists movement of the late 20th century.
  • D. Howard Hodgkin
    Howard Hodgkin was a British painter and printmaker renowned for his vibrant, abstract works that evoke memory and emotion through bold color and gestural brushwork.
  • E. Lucian Freud
    Lucian Freud was a British painter renowned for his intense, psychologically charged portraits and nudes, and is considered one of the foremost figurative artists of the 20th century.
  • 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_69d87f2dac988190b74d6e185fa88ba4 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32d7dfd188190b03e9b4151a4d3d8 completed April 18, 2026, 7:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a004f5015a881908447b64b699feb1a completed May 10, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0051491fc88190ab4098f1177d2715 completed May 10, 2026, 9:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0051c61ea0819090d588df72c1041b completed May 10, 2026, 9:37 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:10 a.m.