Triple

T2340590
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Dam Busters (1955 film) E45016 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Michael Anderson
Michael Anderson was a British film director best known for helming notable mid-20th-century films such as "The Dam Busters" and "Around the World in 80 Days."
E265542 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: Michael Anderson | Statement: [The Dam Busters (1955 film), director, Michael Anderson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Anderson
Context triple: [The Dam Busters (1955 film), director, Michael Anderson]
  • A. Stewart Menzies
    Stewart Menzies was the head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during World War II, overseeing key intelligence operations including those at Bletchley Park.
  • B. William Cameron Menzies
    William Cameron Menzies was a pioneering American film producer, director, and especially influential art director and production designer, renowned for shaping the visual style of early Hollywood cinema.
  • C. John Guillermin
    John Guillermin was a British film director known for his work on large-scale adventure and disaster films, including the 1976 remake of King Kong and The Towering Inferno.
  • D. Hugh Hudson
    Hugh Hudson was a British film director best known for his Academy Award–winning 1981 sports drama "Chariots of Fire."
  • E. Robert Wise
    Robert Wise was an acclaimed American film director, producer, and editor known for classics such as "West Side Story," "The Sound of Music," and "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
  • 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: Michael Anderson
Triple: [The Dam Busters (1955 film), director, Michael Anderson]
Generated description
Michael Anderson was a British film director best known for helming notable mid-20th-century films such as "The Dam Busters" and "Around the World in 80 Days."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Anderson
Target entity description: Michael Anderson was a British film director best known for helming notable mid-20th-century films such as "The Dam Busters" and "Around the World in 80 Days."
  • A. Stewart Menzies
    Stewart Menzies was the head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during World War II, overseeing key intelligence operations including those at Bletchley Park.
  • B. William Cameron Menzies
    William Cameron Menzies was a pioneering American film producer, director, and especially influential art director and production designer, renowned for shaping the visual style of early Hollywood cinema.
  • C. John Guillermin
    John Guillermin was a British film director known for his work on large-scale adventure and disaster films, including the 1976 remake of King Kong and The Towering Inferno.
  • D. Hugh Hudson
    Hugh Hudson was a British film director best known for his Academy Award–winning 1981 sports drama "Chariots of Fire."
  • E. Robert Wise
    Robert Wise was an acclaimed American film director, producer, and editor known for classics such as "West Side Story," "The Sound of Music," and "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
  • 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_69a88917935081909b755dbf38e81024 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc6abf1688190b7c404de0979149a completed March 7, 2026, 6:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aebf2ae2c4819083403236e27d4b5e completed March 9, 2026, 12:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aec4bf846c8190a75ac57309a0102b completed March 9, 2026, 1:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aec52ac8dc819080901508cbcb3b8b completed March 9, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:52 p.m.