Triple

T2305459
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sparrows (1926 film) E51828 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object William Beaudine
William Beaudine was a highly prolific American film and television director whose career spanned from the silent era through the 1960s, encompassing hundreds of low-budget features and TV episodes.
E254353 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: William Beaudine | Statement: [Sparrows (1926 film), director, William Beaudine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Beaudine
Context triple: [Sparrows (1926 film), director, William Beaudine]
  • A. Fred F. French
    Fred F. French was an American real estate developer best known for pioneering large-scale middle-class housing projects in New York City during the early 20th century.
  • B. George Melford
    George Melford was an American film director and actor of the silent and early sound era, best known for his work at Paramount Pictures and for directing the Spanish-language version of Dracula (1931).
  • C. John Haviland
    John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
  • D. Gustave Herter
    Gustave Herter was a prominent 19th-century German-born American cabinetmaker and interior designer known for his luxurious, highly detailed work for elite clients and landmark buildings in the United States.
  • E. Louis Debney
    Louis Debney is the father of American film composer John Debney.
  • 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: William Beaudine
Triple: [Sparrows (1926 film), director, William Beaudine]
Generated description
William Beaudine was a highly prolific American film and television director whose career spanned from the silent era through the 1960s, encompassing hundreds of low-budget features and TV episodes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Beaudine
Target entity description: William Beaudine was a highly prolific American film and television director whose career spanned from the silent era through the 1960s, encompassing hundreds of low-budget features and TV episodes.
  • A. Fred F. French
    Fred F. French was an American real estate developer best known for pioneering large-scale middle-class housing projects in New York City during the early 20th century.
  • B. George Melford
    George Melford was an American film director and actor of the silent and early sound era, best known for his work at Paramount Pictures and for directing the Spanish-language version of Dracula (1931).
  • C. John Haviland
    John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
  • D. Gustave Herter
    Gustave Herter was a prominent 19th-century German-born American cabinetmaker and interior designer known for his luxurious, highly detailed work for elite clients and landmark buildings in the United States.
  • E. Louis Debney
    Louis Debney is the father of American film composer John Debney.
  • 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_69a88b0bb30c81908ded03b006d29387 completed March 4, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc60300388190993bed7d312a92d5 completed March 7, 2026, 6:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae7f3579248190829a07fe508d72a7 completed March 9, 2026, 8:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae82e0611c8190a8b44e97bb34194f completed March 9, 2026, 8:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae83f4369c8190b956f9d37ca31d1d completed March 9, 2026, 8:25 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:49 p.m.