Triple

T3168996
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The King and I E66280 entity
Predicate originalDirector P255 FINISHED
Object John Van Druten
John Van Druten was a British-born playwright and director known for his successful Broadway plays and contributions to mid-20th-century American theatre.
E333727 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: John Van Druten | Statement: [The King and I, originalDirector, John Van Druten]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Van Druten
Context triple: [The King and I, originalDirector, John Van Druten]
  • A. Terence Rattigan
    Terence Rattigan was a prominent 20th-century British playwright known for his finely crafted, emotionally restrained dramas such as "The Winslow Boy" and "The Browning Version."
  • B. John Braine
    John Braine was a British novelist best known as one of the leading "Angry Young Men" writers of the 1950s, particularly for his debut novel "Room at the Top."
  • C. John Osborne
    John Osborne was a prominent British playwright and screenwriter, best known for his groundbreaking play "Look Back in Anger" and his influential role in the "Angry Young Men" movement in postwar British theatre.
  • D. Anthony Shaffer
    Anthony Shaffer was a British playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage thriller "Sleuth" and the screenplay for the cult horror film "The Wicker Man."
  • E. Sidney Howard
    Sidney Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting Margaret Mitchell’s novel into the Academy Award–winning screenplay for the film "Gone with the Wind."
  • 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: John Van Druten
Triple: [The King and I, originalDirector, John Van Druten]
Generated description
John Van Druten was a British-born playwright and director known for his successful Broadway plays and contributions to mid-20th-century American theatre.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Van Druten
Target entity description: John Van Druten was a British-born playwright and director known for his successful Broadway plays and contributions to mid-20th-century American theatre.
  • A. Terence Rattigan
    Terence Rattigan was a prominent 20th-century British playwright known for his finely crafted, emotionally restrained dramas such as "The Winslow Boy" and "The Browning Version."
  • B. John Braine
    John Braine was a British novelist best known as one of the leading "Angry Young Men" writers of the 1950s, particularly for his debut novel "Room at the Top."
  • C. John Osborne
    John Osborne was a prominent British playwright and screenwriter, best known for his groundbreaking play "Look Back in Anger" and his influential role in the "Angry Young Men" movement in postwar British theatre.
  • D. Anthony Shaffer
    Anthony Shaffer was a British playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage thriller "Sleuth" and the screenplay for the cult horror film "The Wicker Man."
  • E. Sidney Howard
    Sidney Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting Margaret Mitchell’s novel into the Academy Award–winning screenplay for the film "Gone with the Wind."
  • 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_69ad8585d7988190af37365331093ccd completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada64726048190933dbdc44258703e completed March 8, 2026, 4:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b235e5a0e081909a03f5eb222cfe60 completed March 12, 2026, 3:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b236962ee48190b37836e5fe6dbc37 completed March 12, 2026, 3:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2373ebca88190b50735839eab4944 completed March 12, 2026, 3:47 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:06 p.m.