Triple

T3239594
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Nutty Professor (1996 film) E67935 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Tom Shadyac
Tom Shadyac is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for directing hit comedies such as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty.
E341032 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: Tom Shadyac | Statement: [The Nutty Professor (1996 film), director, Tom Shadyac]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Shadyac
Context triple: [The Nutty Professor (1996 film), director, Tom Shadyac]
  • A. Barry Sonnenfeld
    Barry Sonnenfeld is an American filmmaker and cinematographer best known for directing the Men in Black trilogy and The Addams Family films.
  • B. David W. Zucker
    David W. Zucker is a television producer known for overseeing high-profile, prestige drama series, including the adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s "The Man in the High Castle."
  • C. Mike Judge
    Mike Judge is an American animator, writer, director, and producer best known for creating the animated series Beavis and Butt-Head and co-creating shows like King of the Hill and Silicon Valley.
  • D. Rob Reiner
    Rob Reiner is an American actor and acclaimed film director known for his role as Michael "Meathead" Stivic on the sitcom "All in the Family" and for directing classics like "This Is Spinal Tap," "Stand by Me," and "When Harry Met Sally."
  • E. Don Bluth
    Don Bluth is an American animator and film director known for his influential work on animated features such as "The Secret of NIMH," "An American Tail," and "The Land Before Time."
  • 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: Tom Shadyac
Triple: [The Nutty Professor (1996 film), director, Tom Shadyac]
Generated description
Tom Shadyac is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for directing hit comedies such as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Shadyac
Target entity description: Tom Shadyac is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for directing hit comedies such as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty.
  • A. Barry Sonnenfeld
    Barry Sonnenfeld is an American filmmaker and cinematographer best known for directing the Men in Black trilogy and The Addams Family films.
  • B. David W. Zucker
    David W. Zucker is a television producer known for overseeing high-profile, prestige drama series, including the adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s "The Man in the High Castle."
  • C. Mike Judge
    Mike Judge is an American animator, writer, director, and producer best known for creating the animated series Beavis and Butt-Head and co-creating shows like King of the Hill and Silicon Valley.
  • D. Rob Reiner
    Rob Reiner is an American actor and acclaimed film director known for his role as Michael "Meathead" Stivic on the sitcom "All in the Family" and for directing classics like "This Is Spinal Tap," "Stand by Me," and "When Harry Met Sally."
  • E. Don Bluth
    Don Bluth is an American animator and film director known for his influential work on animated features such as "The Secret of NIMH," "An American Tail," and "The Land Before Time."
  • 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_69ad858d27348190abb61c280b4c86a9 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adaef4c0bc819095e4f84296fe7cb6 completed March 8, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2774f93448190b8493b457636ae48 completed March 12, 2026, 8:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2786b7d388190ad0d97bd41a60543 completed March 12, 2026, 8:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b27c45f6b08190966fbc3fd28664ec completed March 12, 2026, 8:41 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:08 p.m.