Triple
T19426816
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Devil's Tower communication scene |
E485999
|
entity |
| Predicate | featuresCharacter |
P626
|
FINISHED |
| Object | David Laughlin |
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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: David Laughlin | Statement: [Devil's Tower communication scene, featuresCharacter, David Laughlin]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Laughlin Context triple: [Devil's Tower communication scene, featuresCharacter, David Laughlin]
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A.
David Laughlin
chosen
David Laughlin is a U.S. government interpreter and cartographer who assists in communicating with extraterrestrials in the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
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B.
Michael Laughlin
Michael Laughlin was an American film producer, screenwriter, and director known for his work on cult and independent films in the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
David Ludden
David Ludden is an American historian and academic known for his scholarship on South Asian history and development.
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D.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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E.
David Drumlin
David Drumlin is a high-ranking government science advisor and political figure in the science fiction film "Contact," often serving as a skeptical foil to the protagonist Ellie Arroway.
- 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_69d8e8d688f881909c85104a62e09d8a |
completed | April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e63219f27481909fe686209defc971 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 2:03 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:37 p.m.