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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.