Triple

T3066293
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Beauty E62110 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Lester Burnham
Lester Burnham is the disillusioned middle-aged suburban father and narrator in the film "American Beauty," whose midlife crisis drives the movie’s darkly comic and tragic exploration of desire, conformity, and freedom.
E322781 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: Lester Burnham | Statement: [American Beauty, character, Lester Burnham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester Burnham
Context triple: [American Beauty, character, Lester Burnham]
  • A. Danny Archer
    Danny Archer is a fictional mercenary and diamond smuggler in the film "Blood Diamond," known for his morally conflicted role amid the Sierra Leone Civil War.
  • B. Paul Benedict
    Paul Benedict was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles on television and in film, including his portrayal of the eccentric English neighbor Harry Bentley on the sitcom "The Jeffersons."
  • C. David Puddy
    David Puddy is a deadpan, dim-witted auto mechanic and Elaine Benes’s on-again, off-again boyfriend on the sitcom "Seinfeld," known for his monotone delivery and quirky obsessions.
  • D. Jack Riley
    Jack Riley was an American actor and comedian best known for his role as the neurotic patient Elliot Carlin on the classic sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show."
  • E. Jack Riley
    Jack Riley is a notable figure in ice hockey, best known as a successful coach and influential contributor to the sport, for whom the Riley Cup championship trophy was named.
  • 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: Lester Burnham
Triple: [American Beauty, character, Lester Burnham]
Generated description
Lester Burnham is the disillusioned middle-aged suburban father and narrator in the film "American Beauty," whose midlife crisis drives the movie’s darkly comic and tragic exploration of desire, conformity, and freedom.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester Burnham
Target entity description: Lester Burnham is the disillusioned middle-aged suburban father and narrator in the film "American Beauty," whose midlife crisis drives the movie’s darkly comic and tragic exploration of desire, conformity, and freedom.
  • A. Danny Archer
    Danny Archer is a fictional mercenary and diamond smuggler in the film "Blood Diamond," known for his morally conflicted role amid the Sierra Leone Civil War.
  • B. Paul Benedict
    Paul Benedict was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles on television and in film, including his portrayal of the eccentric English neighbor Harry Bentley on the sitcom "The Jeffersons."
  • C. David Puddy
    David Puddy is a deadpan, dim-witted auto mechanic and Elaine Benes’s on-again, off-again boyfriend on the sitcom "Seinfeld," known for his monotone delivery and quirky obsessions.
  • D. Jack Riley
    Jack Riley is a notable figure in ice hockey, best known as a successful coach and influential contributor to the sport, for whom the Riley Cup championship trophy was named.
  • E. Jack Riley
    Jack Riley was an American actor and comedian best known for his role as the neurotic patient Elliot Carlin on the classic sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show."
  • 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_69ad85793e5c8190a358049bc4a98d8c completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada0fd87308190918e7b616f033faa completed March 8, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1ef16cf2881908265dfe8a1e3424d completed March 11, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1f028cd0881909b35bf1870aae534 completed March 11, 2026, 10:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1f0a0f15481909f71c702ecc93924 completed March 11, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:02 p.m.