Triple
T19628758
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Meteor Man |
E471209
|
entity |
| Predicate | director |
P255
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Robert Townsend |
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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: Robert Townsend | Statement: [The Meteor Man, director, Robert Townsend]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Townsend Context triple: [The Meteor Man, director, Robert Townsend]
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A.
Robert Townsend
chosen
Robert Townsend is an American actor, director, and filmmaker known for his influential work in African-American cinema, including films like "Hollywood Shuffle" and "The Five Heartbeats."
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B.
Robert Townsend
Robert Townsend was an American merchant and spy who served as a key undercover operative in George Washington’s Culper Ring during the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Michael Leigh
Michael Leigh is a renowned English film and theatre director and screenwriter known for his improvisational working methods and critically acclaimed social-realist dramas.
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D.
Jack Livingston
Jack Livingston was an American silent film actor active in the early 20th century.
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E.
Jim Seymour
Jim Seymour was an American football wide receiver best known for his standout college career at Notre Dame and subsequent professional play in the early 1970s.
- 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_69d8e511f28481909f4bc3ea9191e54a |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:54 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e641007e5881908da78e50aa36f340 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 3:06 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:44 p.m.