Triple

T1956120
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nightmare Alley E42272 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Joan Blondell
Joan Blondell was a popular American film and stage actress of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her wisecracking, warm-hearted characters in numerous Warner Bros. productions.
E252533 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: Joan Blondell | Statement: [Nightmare Alley, starring, Joan Blondell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joan Blondell
Context triple: [Nightmare Alley, starring, Joan Blondell]
  • A. Fay Bainter
    Fay Bainter was an American stage and film actress, active from the silent era through the mid-20th century, who became one of the first performers to receive Academy Award nominations in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories in the same year.
  • B. Celeste Holm
    Celeste Holm was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and her work on stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.
  • C. Myrna Loy
    Myrna Loy was a popular American film actress of Hollywood’s Golden Age, best known for her sophisticated, witty roles in classics such as The Thin Man series.
  • D. Irene Dunne
    Irene Dunne was an American actress and singer celebrated for her work in both dramatic and screwball comedy films during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
  • E. Ruth Gordon
    Ruth Gordon was an American actress and screenwriter renowned for her late-career film roles, particularly in "Rosemary's Baby" and "Harold and Maude."
  • 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: Joan Blondell
Triple: [Nightmare Alley, starring, Joan Blondell]
Generated description
Joan Blondell was a popular American film and stage actress of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her wisecracking, warm-hearted characters in numerous Warner Bros. productions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joan Blondell
Target entity description: Joan Blondell was a popular American film and stage actress of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her wisecracking, warm-hearted characters in numerous Warner Bros. productions.
  • A. Fay Bainter
    Fay Bainter was an American stage and film actress, active from the silent era through the mid-20th century, who became one of the first performers to receive Academy Award nominations in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories in the same year.
  • B. Celeste Holm
    Celeste Holm was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and her work on stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.
  • C. Myrna Loy
    Myrna Loy was a popular American film actress of Hollywood’s Golden Age, best known for her sophisticated, witty roles in classics such as The Thin Man series.
  • D. Irene Dunne
    Irene Dunne was an American actress and singer celebrated for her work in both dramatic and screwball comedy films during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
  • E. Ruth Gordon
    Ruth Gordon was an American actress and screenwriter renowned for her late-career film roles, particularly in "Rosemary's Baby" and "Harold and Maude."
  • 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_69a8870eea088190a38781990812a9bc completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb37b4a38819099f98be92be91ade completed March 7, 2026, 5:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae7ee4b678819097da9363e032a670 completed March 9, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae7fee12ac8190bb9924f7467434a6 completed March 9, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae8061cd348190b0b0b65dcf730f99 completed March 9, 2026, 8:10 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.