Triple

T3884216
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Birds E92899 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Evan Hunter
Evan Hunter was an American author and screenwriter best known for his crime novels under the pen name Ed McBain and for writing the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptation of "The Birds."
 E394438 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: Evan Hunter | Statement: [The Birds, screenwriter, Evan Hunter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Evan Hunter
Context triple: [The Birds, screenwriter, Evan Hunter]
  • A. Mickey Spillane
    Mickey Spillane was an American crime novelist best known for his hard-boiled Mike Hammer detective series.
  • B. Raymond Gardner
    Raymond Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner, a member of the Gardner family from rural North Carolina.
  • C. Irving Wallace
    Irving Wallace was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his bestselling, often controversial, popular fiction exploring sexuality, power, and social issues.
  • D. John D. MacDonald
    John D. MacDonald was an American novelist best known for his hardboiled crime and suspense fiction, including the Travis McGee series.
  • E. Jack Traven
    Jack Traven is the daring Los Angeles police officer protagonist portrayed by Keanu Reeves in the action film "Speed."
  • 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: Evan Hunter
Triple: [The Birds, screenwriter, Evan Hunter]
Generated description
Evan Hunter was an American author and screenwriter best known for his crime novels under the pen name Ed McBain and for writing the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptation of "The Birds."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Evan Hunter
Target entity description: Evan Hunter was an American author and screenwriter best known for his crime novels under the pen name Ed McBain and for writing the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptation of "The Birds."
  • A. Mickey Spillane
    Mickey Spillane was an American crime novelist best known for his hard-boiled Mike Hammer detective series.
  • B. Raymond Gardner
    Raymond Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner, a member of the Gardner family from rural North Carolina.
  • C. Irving Wallace
    Irving Wallace was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his bestselling, often controversial, popular fiction exploring sexuality, power, and social issues.
  • D. John D. MacDonald
    John D. MacDonald was an American novelist best known for his hardboiled crime and suspense fiction, including the Travis McGee series.
  • E. Jack Traven
    Jack Traven is the daring Los Angeles police officer protagonist portrayed by Keanu Reeves in the action film "Speed."
  • 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.