Triple

T23054742
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sergeant Thomas "Tommy" McChesney E574120 entity
Predicate screenWriterCreators P34396 FINISHED
Object Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (among others) 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: Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (among others) | Statement: [Sergeant Thomas "Tommy" McChesney, screenWriterCreators, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (among others)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (among others)
Context triple: [Sergeant Thomas "Tommy" McChesney, screenWriterCreators, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (among others)]
  • A. Ben Hecht chosen
    Ben Hecht was a prolific American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist renowned for his sharp dialogue and influential work on classic Hollywood films such as "Scarface" and "Notorious."
  • B. Dalton Trumbo
    Dalton Trumbo was a prominent American screenwriter and novelist, one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the Red Scare, who later won two Academy Awards under pseudonyms.
  • C. Christopher Trumbo
    Christopher Trumbo was an American writer and the son of famed blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, known for preserving and promoting his father's legacy.
  • D. Wallace Thurman
    Wallace Thurman was an American novelist, editor, and critic best known for his central role in the Harlem Renaissance and his novel "The Blacker the Berry."
  • E. John Howard Lawson
    John Howard Lawson was an American playwright, screenwriter, and prominent member of the Hollywood Ten who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era for his political beliefs.
  • 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_69e245ba7ae48190be606dbc54120e39 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1867eaed0819095c7da6b06101b12 completed April 29, 2026, 4:18 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:54 p.m.