Triple

T1679081
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sleuth (1972 film) E36297 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Anthony Shaffer
Anthony Shaffer was a British playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage thriller "Sleuth" and the screenplay for the cult horror film "The Wicker Man."
E189954 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: Anthony Shaffer | Statement: [Sleuth (1972 film), screenwriter, Anthony Shaffer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Anthony Shaffer
Context triple: [Sleuth (1972 film), screenwriter, Anthony Shaffer]
  • A. Paddy Chayefsky
    Paddy Chayefsky was an American playwright and screenwriter renowned for his sharp, satirical dramas and is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers in mid-20th-century film and television.
  • B. Terence Rattigan
    Terence Rattigan was a prominent 20th-century British playwright known for his finely crafted, emotionally restrained dramas such as "The Winslow Boy" and "The Browning Version."
  • C. Jerome Lawrence
    Jerome Lawrence was an American playwright best known for co-writing the stage play "Inherit the Wind" and other notable works with his longtime collaborator Robert E. Lee.
  • D. Philip Barry
    Philip Barry was an American playwright best known for his sophisticated Broadway comedies of manners, including the classic play "The Philadelphia Story."
  • E. Edward Herrmann
    Edward Herrmann was an American actor known for his distinguished character roles in film and television, including portrayals of historical figures and his role as Richard Gilmore on "Gilmore Girls."
  • 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: Anthony Shaffer
Triple: [Sleuth (1972 film), screenwriter, Anthony Shaffer]
Generated description
Anthony Shaffer was a British playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage thriller "Sleuth" and the screenplay for the cult horror film "The Wicker Man."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Anthony Shaffer
Target entity description: Anthony Shaffer was a British playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage thriller "Sleuth" and the screenplay for the cult horror film "The Wicker Man."
  • A. Paddy Chayefsky
    Paddy Chayefsky was an American playwright and screenwriter renowned for his sharp, satirical dramas and is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers in mid-20th-century film and television.
  • B. Terence Rattigan
    Terence Rattigan was a prominent 20th-century British playwright known for his finely crafted, emotionally restrained dramas such as "The Winslow Boy" and "The Browning Version."
  • C. Jerome Lawrence
    Jerome Lawrence was an American playwright best known for co-writing the stage play "Inherit the Wind" and other notable works with his longtime collaborator Robert E. Lee.
  • D. Philip Barry
    Philip Barry was an American playwright best known for his sophisticated Broadway comedies of manners, including the classic play "The Philadelphia Story."
  • E. Edward Herrmann
    Edward Herrmann was an American actor known for his distinguished character roles in film and television, including portrayals of historical figures and his role as Richard Gilmore on "Gilmore Girls."
  • 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_69aa6260afb881909a50e80c8211fa08 completed March 6, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad71bce0d48190ba3762fabd0bcdd6 completed March 8, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad724651e08190a77519ad21c64b23 completed March 8, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad72c405b081909bff8bf621e9baec completed March 8, 2026, 12:59 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.