Triple

T2305460
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sparrows (1926 film) E51828 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Tom McNamara
Tom McNamara was an American film director and writer active during the silent film era, known for his work on early Hollywood productions.
E257302 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: Tom McNamara | Statement: [Sparrows (1926 film), director, Tom McNamara]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom McNamara
Context triple: [Sparrows (1926 film), director, Tom McNamara]
  • A. Tom McNamara
    Tom McNamara was an American screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for his work on pioneering sound-era films.
  • B. Harold Fleming
    Harold Fleming is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinction is sharing the surname associated with more widely known figures like author Ian Fleming.
  • C. John McNamara
    John McNamara was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Boston Red Sox during the mid-1980s, including their pennant-winning 1986 season.
  • D. Conn Smythe
    Conn Smythe was a prominent Canadian ice hockey executive and owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, renowned for building multiple Stanley Cup–winning teams and leaving a lasting legacy in the NHL.
  • E. Gordon Howe
    Gordon "Gordie" Howe was a legendary Canadian professional ice hockey player widely known as "Mr. Hockey" and regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport's history.
  • 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: Tom McNamara
Triple: [Sparrows (1926 film), director, Tom McNamara]
Generated description
Tom McNamara was an American film director and writer active during the silent film era, known for his work on early Hollywood productions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom McNamara
Target entity description: Tom McNamara was an American film director and writer active during the silent film era, known for his work on early Hollywood productions.
  • A. Tom McNamara
    Tom McNamara was an American screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for his work on pioneering sound-era films.
  • B. Harold Fleming
    Harold Fleming is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinction is sharing the surname associated with more widely known figures like author Ian Fleming.
  • C. John McNamara
    John McNamara was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Boston Red Sox during the mid-1980s, including their pennant-winning 1986 season.
  • D. Conn Smythe
    Conn Smythe was a prominent Canadian ice hockey executive and owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, renowned for building multiple Stanley Cup–winning teams and leaving a lasting legacy in the NHL.
  • E. Gordon Howe
    Gordon "Gordie" Howe was a legendary Canadian professional ice hockey player widely known as "Mr. Hockey" and regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport's history.
  • 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_69ae960dfb708190868126460d27b144 completed March 9, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae96ea1b6c81908e05ca78c5e07320 completed March 9, 2026, 9:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae97a775008190bdda2f63810cd5e8 completed March 9, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:49 p.m.