Triple

T3884180
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vertigo E92898 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object John "Scottie" Ferguson
John "Scottie" Ferguson is the acrophobic former detective protagonist of Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Vertigo," whose obsessive love and psychological unraveling drive the movie’s central mystery.
E394435 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 "Scottie" Ferguson | Statement: [Vertigo, character, John "Scottie" Ferguson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John "Scottie" Ferguson
Context triple: [Vertigo, character, John "Scottie" Ferguson]
  • A. Peter Masterson
    Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
  • B. Harry Callahan
    Harry Callahan is a fictional tough, rule-bending San Francisco police inspector famously portrayed by Clint Eastwood in the "Dirty Harry" film series.
  • C. Don McGill
    Don McGill is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the long-running crime drama series NCIS.
  • D. John McClain
    John McClain is a music industry executive and record producer best known as a co-founder of Interscope Records and for managing and working with major artists.
  • E. John McClain
    John McClain was a screenwriter active in classic Hollywood cinema, known for his work on mid-20th-century American films.
  • 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 "Scottie" Ferguson
Triple: [Vertigo, character, John "Scottie" Ferguson]
Generated description
John "Scottie" Ferguson is the acrophobic former detective protagonist of Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Vertigo," whose obsessive love and psychological unraveling drive the movie’s central mystery.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John "Scottie" Ferguson
Target entity description: John "Scottie" Ferguson is the acrophobic former detective protagonist of Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Vertigo," whose obsessive love and psychological unraveling drive the movie’s central mystery.
  • A. Peter Masterson
    Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
  • B. Harry Callahan
    Harry Callahan is a fictional tough, rule-bending San Francisco police inspector famously portrayed by Clint Eastwood in the "Dirty Harry" film series.
  • C. Don McGill
    Don McGill is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the long-running crime drama series NCIS.
  • D. John McClain
    John McClain is a music industry executive and record producer best known as a co-founder of Interscope Records and for managing and working with major artists.
  • E. John McClain
    John McClain was a screenwriter active in classic Hollywood cinema, known for his work on mid-20th-century American films.
  • 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_69aed9697de0819087c2559295ff3d12 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeec9029908190a7b36a3827734db1 completed March 9, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5125bee048190ba7553797e9fd254 completed March 14, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b512e3721c8190accd26499191c153 completed March 14, 2026, 7:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b513618b888190acda94dcc91d24d2 completed March 14, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:20 p.m.