Triple

T3169181
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject State Fair (1945 film) E66284 entity
Predicate directedBy P7373 FINISHED
Object Walter Lang
Walter Lang was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood musicals and comedies during the 1930s–1950s.
E342221 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: Walter Lang | Statement: [State Fair (1945 film), directedBy, Walter Lang]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Lang
Context triple: [State Fair (1945 film), directedBy, Walter Lang]
  • A. George Sidney
    George Sidney was an American film director best known for his lavish MGM musicals and comedies during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics like "Anchors Aweigh" and "Show Boat."
  • B. Mervyn LeRoy
    Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer known for his influential work in classic Hollywood cinema, including a key role in bringing "The Wizard of Oz" to the screen.
  • C. Allan Dwan
    Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canadian-born American film director and producer whose prolific career spanned the silent and early sound eras of Hollywood cinema.
  • D. Charles Vidor
    Charles Vidor was a Hungarian-American film director best known for classic Hollywood movies such as "Gilda" and other major studio productions of the 1940s and 1950s.
  • E. Michael Curtiz
    Michael Curtiz was a Hungarian-American film director best known for helming classic Hollywood films such as "Casablanca."
  • 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: Walter Lang
Triple: [State Fair (1945 film), directedBy, Walter Lang]
Generated description
Walter Lang was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood musicals and comedies during the 1930s–1950s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Lang
Target entity description: Walter Lang was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood musicals and comedies during the 1930s–1950s.
  • A. George Sidney
    George Sidney was an American film director best known for his lavish MGM musicals and comedies during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics like "Anchors Aweigh" and "Show Boat."
  • B. Mervyn LeRoy
    Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer known for his influential work in classic Hollywood cinema, including a key role in bringing "The Wizard of Oz" to the screen.
  • C. Allan Dwan
    Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canadian-born American film director and producer whose prolific career spanned the silent and early sound eras of Hollywood cinema.
  • D. Charles Vidor
    Charles Vidor was a Hungarian-American film director best known for classic Hollywood movies such as "Gilda" and other major studio productions of the 1940s and 1950s.
  • E. Michael Curtiz
    Michael Curtiz was a Hungarian-American film director best known for helming classic Hollywood films such as "Casablanca."
  • 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_69b28e4cdd2c8190a4b09e968b9d39be completed March 12, 2026, 9:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b28f6d8a948190b9aac1b90de472d6 completed March 12, 2026, 10:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2c08b196881908e72596d54ab8873 completed March 12, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:06 p.m.