Triple

T3197380
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mercury Theatre E66965 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Mercury Theatre on the Air
The Mercury Theatre on the Air was a 1938 American radio drama series created by Orson Welles and John Houseman, best known for its innovative, cinematic adaptations of literary classics and the infamous "War of the Worlds" broadcast.
E336746 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: The Mercury Theatre on the Air | Statement: [Mercury Theatre, notableWork, The Mercury Theatre on the Air]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Mercury Theatre on the Air
Context triple: [Mercury Theatre, notableWork, The Mercury Theatre on the Air]
  • A. The Philco Television Playhouse
    The Philco Television Playhouse was an influential American live television anthology drama series of the late 1940s and 1950s, known for showcasing original plays and launching the careers of notable directors, writers, and actors.
  • B. Mutual Radio Theater
    Mutual Radio Theater was a late-era American radio drama anthology series that helped revive classic radio storytelling on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
  • C. La voix humaine
    La voix humaine is a one-act monodrama opera by Francis Poulenc, based on Jean Cocteau’s play, depicting a woman’s emotional breakdown during a final phone call with her lover.
  • D. The Great American Broadcast
    The Great American Broadcast is a 1941 musical comedy film about the early days of radio, featuring Gary Merrill among its cast.
  • E. The Cradle Will Rock
    The Cradle Will Rock is a 1937 pro-labor musical by Marc Blitzstein, famous for its controversial, government-censored premiere and its association with Orson Welles and the American leftist theater movement.
  • 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: The Mercury Theatre on the Air
Triple: [Mercury Theatre, notableWork, The Mercury Theatre on the Air]
Generated description
The Mercury Theatre on the Air was a 1938 American radio drama series created by Orson Welles and John Houseman, best known for its innovative, cinematic adaptations of literary classics and the infamous "War of the Worlds" broadcast.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Mercury Theatre on the Air
Target entity description: The Mercury Theatre on the Air was a 1938 American radio drama series created by Orson Welles and John Houseman, best known for its innovative, cinematic adaptations of literary classics and the infamous "War of the Worlds" broadcast.
  • A. The Philco Television Playhouse
    The Philco Television Playhouse was an influential American live television anthology drama series of the late 1940s and 1950s, known for showcasing original plays and launching the careers of notable directors, writers, and actors.
  • B. Mutual Radio Theater
    Mutual Radio Theater was a late-era American radio drama anthology series that helped revive classic radio storytelling on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
  • C. La voix humaine
    La voix humaine is a one-act monodrama opera by Francis Poulenc, based on Jean Cocteau’s play, depicting a woman’s emotional breakdown during a final phone call with her lover.
  • D. The Great American Broadcast
    The Great American Broadcast is a 1941 musical comedy film about the early days of radio, featuring Gary Merrill among its cast.
  • E. The Cradle Will Rock
    The Cradle Will Rock is a 1937 pro-labor musical by Marc Blitzstein, famous for its controversial, government-censored premiere and its association with Orson Welles and the American leftist theater movement.
  • 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_69ad8588ba18819086a10951c32ecb80 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada7192994819084817307065a25e2 completed March 8, 2026, 4:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b24bb7cd488190ae95c140d9cda296 completed March 12, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b24d39e77c8190818f71a3298852d7 completed March 12, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b25178f3c08190be78bdbd0cdfc5f3 completed March 12, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:07 p.m.