Triple

T17074974
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Police Story 4: First Strike E414324 entity
Predicate writer P1360 FINISHED
Object Nick Lam
Nick Lam is a screenwriter best known for his work on the Hong Kong action-comedy film "Police Story 4: First Strike" starring Jackie Chan.
E1249603 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: Nick Lam | Statement: [Police Story 4: First Strike, writer, Nick Lam]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nick Lam
Context triple: [Police Story 4: First Strike, writer, Nick Lam]
  • A. Nick Ramm
    Nick Ramm is a musician and keyboardist best known for his work with the British nu-jazz and electronic group The Cinematic Orchestra.
  • B. Matt Lammers
    Matt Lammers is an individual notable enough to be specifically referenced as a bearer of the surname Lammers, though detailed public information about him is limited.
  • C. Nick Lalich
    Nick Lalich was an American officer of Serbian descent who played a leading role in organizing and executing Operation Halyard, the World War II mission that rescued hundreds of Allied airmen from Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia.
  • D. Nick Allder
    Nick Allder is a British special effects supervisor and visual effects artist known for his work on films such as "Alien" and "The Fifth Element."
  • E. Nick Gall
    Nick Gall is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as one of the founders of the pioneering Lisp machine company Symbolics.
  • 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: Nick Lam
Triple: [Police Story 4: First Strike, writer, Nick Lam]
Generated description
Nick Lam is a screenwriter best known for his work on the Hong Kong action-comedy film "Police Story 4: First Strike" starring Jackie Chan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nick Lam
Target entity description: Nick Lam is a screenwriter best known for his work on the Hong Kong action-comedy film "Police Story 4: First Strike" starring Jackie Chan.
  • A. Nick Ramm
    Nick Ramm is a musician and keyboardist best known for his work with the British nu-jazz and electronic group The Cinematic Orchestra.
  • B. Matt Lammers
    Matt Lammers is an individual notable enough to be specifically referenced as a bearer of the surname Lammers, though detailed public information about him is limited.
  • C. Nick Lalich
    Nick Lalich was an American officer of Serbian descent who played a leading role in organizing and executing Operation Halyard, the World War II mission that rescued hundreds of Allied airmen from Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia.
  • D. Nick Allder
    Nick Allder is a British special effects supervisor and visual effects artist known for his work on films such as "Alien" and "The Fifth Element."
  • E. Nick Gall
    Nick Gall is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as one of the founders of the pioneering Lisp machine company Symbolics.
  • 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_69d886cef44c8190ba56c44b4e863e64 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3dbc47808819088a4ca039689b213 completed April 18, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a012ede108881909ddd0455be53ffac completed May 11, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a012fe2a1b081909483baef845cc2c1 completed May 11, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0130c2ad9881909d8a8b64ebb59aa6 completed May 11, 2026, 1:28 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:34 a.m.