Triple

T1896493
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Mark of Zorro (1940 film) E41994 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object John Taintor Foote
John Taintor Foote was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter known for his stories about horse racing and his work on several classic Hollywood films.
 E296779 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: John Taintor Foote | Statement: [The Mark of Zorro (1940 film), screenwriter, John Taintor Foote]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Taintor Foote
Context triple: [The Mark of Zorro (1940 film), screenwriter, John Taintor Foote]
  • A. Thomas Fiske
    Thomas Fiske was an American mathematician and educator best known as a founder and early leader of the American Mathematical Society.
  • B. Francis Lenn Taylor
    Francis Lenn Taylor was an American art dealer best known as the father of iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor.
  • C. Francis Newton Gifford
    Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
  • D. Arthur Farnsworth
    Arthur Farnsworth was an American assistant director and film executive best known as the second husband of actress Bette Davis.
  • E. Francis W. Sears
    Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
  • 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: John Taintor Foote
Triple: [The Mark of Zorro (1940 film), screenwriter, John Taintor Foote]
Generated description
John Taintor Foote was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter known for his stories about horse racing and his work on several classic Hollywood films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Taintor Foote
Target entity description: John Taintor Foote was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter known for his stories about horse racing and his work on several classic Hollywood films.
  • A. Thomas Fiske
    Thomas Fiske was an American mathematician and educator best known as a founder and early leader of the American Mathematical Society.
  • B. Francis Lenn Taylor
    Francis Lenn Taylor was an American art dealer best known as the father of iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor.
  • C. Francis Newton Gifford
    Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
  • D. Arthur Farnsworth
    Arthur Farnsworth was an American assistant director and film executive best known as the second husband of actress Bette Davis.
  • E. Francis W. Sears
    Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
  • 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_69a8864b6de0819098d089f6a1b910a7 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb16f416c8190a49b24523b3a7f85 completed March 7, 2026, 5:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afc01252ec8190a14ff51151d8e69e completed March 10, 2026, 6:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc0d32d5881908b80e0bfca5cd873 completed March 10, 2026, 6:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afc133f8088190bd505db0d0d1d6f7 completed March 10, 2026, 6:59 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.