Triple

T3926252
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject To Catch a Thief E93283 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object John Robie
John Robie is a retired jewel thief known as "The Cat" who becomes embroiled in a new string of robberies on the French Riviera in Alfred Hitchcock's film "To Catch a Thief."
 E400707 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 Robie | Statement: [To Catch a Thief, mainCharacter, John Robie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Robie
Context triple: [To Catch a Thief, mainCharacter, John Robie]
  • A. Peter James
    Peter James is an Australian cinematographer known for his work on numerous feature films and television projects.
  • B. Peter James
    Peter James is a bestselling British crime and thriller novelist, best known for his Roy Grace detective series.
  • C. Raymond Gardner
    Raymond Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner, a member of the Gardner family from rural North Carolina.
  • D. James Burrough
    James Burrough was an 18th-century English architect and academic at the University of Cambridge, known for helping shape the university’s neoclassical architectural style.
  • E. Christopher Foyle
    Christopher Foyle is the principled, quietly determined British detective at the heart of the World War II-era crime drama series "Foyle's War."
  • 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 Robie
Triple: [To Catch a Thief, mainCharacter, John Robie]
Generated description
John Robie is a retired jewel thief known as "The Cat" who becomes embroiled in a new string of robberies on the French Riviera in Alfred Hitchcock's film "To Catch a Thief."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Robie
Target entity description: John Robie is a retired jewel thief known as "The Cat" who becomes embroiled in a new string of robberies on the French Riviera in Alfred Hitchcock's film "To Catch a Thief."
  • A. Peter James
    Peter James is an Australian cinematographer known for his work on numerous feature films and television projects.
  • B. Peter James
    Peter James is a bestselling British crime and thriller novelist, best known for his Roy Grace detective series.
  • C. Raymond Gardner
    Raymond Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner, a member of the Gardner family from rural North Carolina.
  • D. James Burrough
    James Burrough was an 18th-century English architect and academic at the University of Cambridge, known for helping shape the university’s neoclassical architectural style.
  • E. Christopher Foyle
    Christopher Foyle is the principled, quietly determined British detective at the heart of the World War II-era crime drama series "Foyle's War."
  • 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_69aed96bfa1081908f7b30f2c647dee6 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeed80a1e48190aa39748b9db42701 completed March 9, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b52878184c8190980af506bb03d5db completed March 14, 2026, 9:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b52c6830148190b06b16ff835f9c3f completed March 14, 2026, 9:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b53099ffcc8190a033663b2f5743aa completed March 14, 2026, 9:55 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:23 p.m.