Triple

T2791778
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Close Encounters of the Third Kind E61945 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Bob Balaban
Bob Balaban is an American actor, director, and producer known for his character roles in films by directors like Steven Spielberg and Wes Anderson, as well as for his work in television and theater.
E299127 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: Bob Balaban | Statement: [Close Encounters of the Third Kind, castMember, Bob Balaban]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bob Balaban
Context triple: [Close Encounters of the Third Kind, castMember, Bob Balaban]
  • A. Stanley Saitowitz
    Stanley Saitowitz is a South African-born American architect known for his minimalist, modernist designs and influential work in contemporary urban architecture.
  • B. Howard Lasnik
    Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
  • C. Richard Leibler
    Richard Leibler was an American mathematician and statistician best known for co-developing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a fundamental concept in information theory and statistics.
  • D. Leon Feldhendler
    Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
  • E. Jack Shulman
    Jack Shulman is the son of American actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, actor and businessman Adam Shulman.
  • 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: Bob Balaban
Triple: [Close Encounters of the Third Kind, castMember, Bob Balaban]
Generated description
Bob Balaban is an American actor, director, and producer known for his character roles in films by directors like Steven Spielberg and Wes Anderson, as well as for his work in television and theater.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bob Balaban
Target entity description: Bob Balaban is an American actor, director, and producer known for his character roles in films by directors like Steven Spielberg and Wes Anderson, as well as for his work in television and theater.
  • A. Stanley Saitowitz
    Stanley Saitowitz is a South African-born American architect known for his minimalist, modernist designs and influential work in contemporary urban architecture.
  • B. Howard Lasnik
    Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
  • C. Richard Leibler
    Richard Leibler was an American mathematician and statistician best known for co-developing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a fundamental concept in information theory and statistics.
  • D. Leon Feldhendler
    Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
  • E. Jack Shulman
    Jack Shulman is the son of American actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, actor and businessman Adam Shulman.
  • 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_69ab4b7f51d881908768300ebd2fbdae completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abddcfe19c81908f94dd449f18a2c2 completed March 7, 2026, 8:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afc65ebe788190859012e930918b05 completed March 10, 2026, 7:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc6c6c620819098b76db174a6f98e completed March 10, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afc72b2e3c8190aad78ac8924f07af completed March 10, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:58 p.m.