Triple

T1678926
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rebecca (1940 film) E36293 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Philip MacDonald
Philip MacDonald was a British-born novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery fiction and his contributions to classic Hollywood films.
E252112 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: Philip MacDonald | Statement: [Rebecca (1940 film), screenwriter, Philip MacDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philip MacDonald
Context triple: [Rebecca (1940 film), screenwriter, Philip MacDonald]
  • A. Alastair Grahame
    Alastair Grahame was the only son of British author Kenneth Grahame, whose troubled life and early death are often linked to the darker undercurrents in his father's classic work "The Wind in the Willows."
  • B. Bob MacKinnon
    Bob MacKinnon was an American basketball coach known for his work in the ABA and NBA, including leading the Spirits of St. Louis.
  • C. David Farquharson
    David Farquharson was an architect known for designing South Hall.
  • D. Alan McMichael
    Alan McMichael is a key protagonist in the gothic romance horror film "Crimson Peak," portrayed as a loyal and principled young man who becomes entangled in the dark secrets surrounding the Sharpe family.
  • E. Alastair Stewart
    Alastair Stewart is a British journalist and long-serving television news presenter best known for his work with ITN and ITV News.
  • 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: Philip MacDonald
Triple: [Rebecca (1940 film), screenwriter, Philip MacDonald]
Generated description
Philip MacDonald was a British-born novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery fiction and his contributions to classic Hollywood films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philip MacDonald
Target entity description: Philip MacDonald was a British-born novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery fiction and his contributions to classic Hollywood films.
  • A. Alastair Grahame
    Alastair Grahame was the only son of British author Kenneth Grahame, whose troubled life and early death are often linked to the darker undercurrents in his father's classic work "The Wind in the Willows."
  • B. Bob MacKinnon
    Bob MacKinnon was an American basketball coach known for his work in the ABA and NBA, including leading the Spirits of St. Louis.
  • C. David Farquharson
    David Farquharson was an architect known for designing South Hall.
  • D. Alan McMichael
    Alan McMichael is a key protagonist in the gothic romance horror film "Crimson Peak," portrayed as a loyal and principled young man who becomes entangled in the dark secrets surrounding the Sharpe family.
  • E. Alastair Stewart
    Alastair Stewart is a British journalist and long-serving television news presenter best known for his work with ITN and ITV News.
  • 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_69a886139ed081909af0940aa9313512 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa625f7e1081909c3c4fe76625783a completed March 6, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae7ed8b7a08190a39f4b90fbf68cd9 completed March 9, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae7f701cc48190a5ca5320ac15117d completed March 9, 2026, 8:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae7ff1fb748190961febf3790f03cf completed March 9, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.