Triple

T3017837
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pitfall E82379 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object William Bowers
William Bowers was an American screenwriter known for his sharp, witty scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood crime films and comedies.
 E621276 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: William Bowers | Statement: [Pitfall, screenwriter, William Bowers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Bowers
Context triple: [Pitfall, screenwriter, William Bowers]
  • A. George Bowers
    George Bowers was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood movies, including the baseball comedy-drama "A League of Their Own."
  • B. Howard Borden
    Howard Borden is a bumbling yet lovable airline navigator and Bob Hartley's friendly, often clueless neighbor on the classic sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show."
  • C. Richard Burrell
    Richard Burrell is a British television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the long-running BBC crime drama series "New Tricks."
  • D. Ellsworth Hoagland
    Ellsworth Hoagland was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Lewis M. Rutherfurd
    Lewis M. Rutherfurd was a 19th-century American lawyer-turned-astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer known for his influential work in celestial photography and astronomical instrumentation.
  • 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: William Bowers
Triple: [Pitfall, screenwriter, William Bowers]
Generated description
William Bowers was an American screenwriter known for his sharp, witty scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood crime films and comedies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Bowers
Target entity description: William Bowers was an American screenwriter known for his sharp, witty scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood crime films and comedies.
  • A. George Bowers
    George Bowers was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood movies, including the baseball comedy-drama "A League of Their Own."
  • B. Howard Borden
    Howard Borden is a bumbling yet lovable airline navigator and Bob Hartley's friendly, often clueless neighbor on the classic sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show."
  • C. Richard Burrell
    Richard Burrell is a British television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the long-running BBC crime drama series "New Tricks."
  • D. Ellsworth Hoagland
    Ellsworth Hoagland was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Lewis M. Rutherfurd
    Lewis M. Rutherfurd was a 19th-century American lawyer-turned-astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer known for his influential work in celestial photography and astronomical instrumentation.
  • 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_69ad8b1eb53481908c39bbcd1ec104b2 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9a90ea64819080620e60bbd6aa24 completed March 8, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7239e1ea481908c64d8a2d600aa30 completed March 28, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c724d740588190a4ed1aa532ee7335 completed March 28, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c725aedfd0819097ae603cc49ff9a8 completed March 28, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3 p.m.