Triple

T1943087
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Witness for the Prosecution E41998 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Harry Kurnitz
Harry Kurnitz was an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his witty crime and mystery scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
E224186 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: Harry Kurnitz | Statement: [Witness for the Prosecution, screenwriter, Harry Kurnitz]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Kurnitz
Context triple: [Witness for the Prosecution, screenwriter, Harry Kurnitz]
  • A. Milton R. Krasner
    Milton R. Krasner was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films, including the acclaimed drama "All About Eve."
  • B. Robert Krasker
    Robert Krasker was an Australian-born cinematographer best known for his atmospheric black-and-white work on classic films such as "The Third Man."
  • C. Irving Blum
    Irving Blum is an influential American art dealer and curator best known for championing emerging contemporary artists in the 1960s Los Angeles art scene, including early exhibitions of Andy Warhol.
  • D. Arnold Jacob Auerbach
    Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach was a legendary American basketball coach and executive best known for building the Boston Celtics dynasty that dominated the NBA in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • E. George Weil
    George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
  • 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: Harry Kurnitz
Triple: [Witness for the Prosecution, screenwriter, Harry Kurnitz]
Generated description
Harry Kurnitz was an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his witty crime and mystery scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Kurnitz
Target entity description: Harry Kurnitz was an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his witty crime and mystery scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
  • A. Milton R. Krasner
    Milton R. Krasner was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films, including the acclaimed drama "All About Eve."
  • B. Robert Krasker
    Robert Krasker was an Australian-born cinematographer best known for his atmospheric black-and-white work on classic films such as "The Third Man."
  • C. Irving Blum
    Irving Blum is an influential American art dealer and curator best known for championing emerging contemporary artists in the 1960s Los Angeles art scene, including early exhibitions of Andy Warhol.
  • D. Arnold Jacob Auerbach
    Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach was a legendary American basketball coach and executive best known for building the Boston Celtics dynasty that dominated the NBA in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • E. George Weil
    George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
  • 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_69a8870e08fc8190a319cbf2600db15f completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb2fe04688190aa8461ba090c93a0 completed March 7, 2026, 5:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae0ac7cd1881908d9284370de529ce completed March 8, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae0b30cc688190ba8f437e683a319d completed March 8, 2026, 11:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae0b9e7c64819093461c74b98e48ca completed March 8, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.