Triple
T18234132
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ruthless |
E436623
|
entity |
| Predicate | screenwriter |
P2831
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Alvah Bessie |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Alvah Bessie | Statement: [Ruthless, screenwriter, Alvah Bessie]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alvah Bessie Context triple: [Ruthless, screenwriter, Alvah Bessie]
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A.
Alvah Bessie
chosen
Alvah Bessie was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter best known as one of the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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B.
Horace Giddens
Horace Giddens is a central character in Lillian Hellman’s play "The Little Foxes," portrayed as the ailing, morally upright husband whose resistance to his ruthless in-laws’ schemes highlights the drama’s themes of greed and corruption.
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C.
H. M. Woodard
H. M. Woodard was the father of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
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D.
E. D. Nixon
E. D. Nixon was an African American civil rights leader and NAACP organizer in Montgomery, Alabama, who played a key role in initiating and organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.
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E.
Volney Rogers
Volney Rogers was an American lawyer and conservationist best known for creating and championing Mill Creek Park in Youngstown, Ohio, one of the earliest metropolitan park districts in the United States.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b9103a8081908bbb0836fef10efd |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4f4b512a88190aa493b0793ab28b3 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 3:28 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:33 a.m.