Triple

T1928692
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Crime and Punishment (1935 film) E40890 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Josef von Sternberg
Josef von Sternberg was an influential Austrian-American film director best known for his visually stylized Hollywood films and his collaborations with actress Marlene Dietrich in the early 1930s.
E218091 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: Josef von Sternberg | Statement: [Crime and Punishment (1935 film), director, Josef von Sternberg]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Josef von Sternberg
Context triple: [Crime and Punishment (1935 film), director, Josef von Sternberg]
  • A. Paul Henreid
    Paul Henreid was an Austrian-born actor and director best known for his role as resistance leader Victor Laszlo in the classic film "Casablanca."
  • B. Erich von Stroheim
    Erich von Stroheim was an Austrian-American filmmaker and actor renowned for his extravagant, uncompromising silent-era epics and his influential role in early Hollywood cinema.
  • C. Rouben Mamoulian
    Rouben Mamoulian was an influential Armenian-American film and theatre director known for his innovative staging and cinematic techniques in early sound films and landmark Broadway musicals.
  • D. Fritz Lang
    Fritz Lang was an influential Austrian-German filmmaker and screenwriter, best known for pioneering expressionist cinema with classics like "Metropolis" and "M."
  • E. Walter Rohland
    Walter Rohland was a German industrialist and steel executive who played a significant role in managing armaments production for Nazi Germany during World War II.
  • 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: Josef von Sternberg
Triple: [Crime and Punishment (1935 film), director, Josef von Sternberg]
Generated description
Josef von Sternberg was an influential Austrian-American film director best known for his visually stylized Hollywood films and his collaborations with actress Marlene Dietrich in the early 1930s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Josef von Sternberg
Target entity description: Josef von Sternberg was an influential Austrian-American film director best known for his visually stylized Hollywood films and his collaborations with actress Marlene Dietrich in the early 1930s.
  • A. Paul Henreid
    Paul Henreid was an Austrian-born actor and director best known for his role as resistance leader Victor Laszlo in the classic film "Casablanca."
  • B. Erich von Stroheim
    Erich von Stroheim was an Austrian-American filmmaker and actor renowned for his extravagant, uncompromising silent-era epics and his influential role in early Hollywood cinema.
  • C. Rouben Mamoulian
    Rouben Mamoulian was an influential Armenian-American film and theatre director known for his innovative staging and cinematic techniques in early sound films and landmark Broadway musicals.
  • D. Fritz Lang
    Fritz Lang was an influential Austrian-German filmmaker and screenwriter, best known for pioneering expressionist cinema with classics like "Metropolis" and "M."
  • E. Walter Rohland
    Walter Rohland was a German industrialist and steel executive who played a significant role in managing armaments production for Nazi Germany during World War II.
  • 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_69a8864711648190b07bed24ed76258e completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb26593308190835863b760449d04 completed March 7, 2026, 5:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfbb2cc988190a4046c17c8389996 completed March 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfc6aa96c81909ae3cff6c7ab7f79 completed March 8, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfcebbc808190a74f9082636bce11 completed March 8, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.