Triple

T3993205
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ethan Coen E87039 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object A Serious Man
A Serious Man is a darkly comic 2009 film by Joel and Ethan Coen that follows a physics professor whose life unravels amid a series of personal and professional crises, exploring themes of faith, fate, and uncertainty.
E404205 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: A Serious Man | Statement: [Ethan Coen, notableWork, A Serious Man]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Serious Man
Context triple: [Ethan Coen, notableWork, A Serious Man]
  • A. Synecdoche, New York
    Synecdoche, New York is a 2008 surreal drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman that follows a theater director whose increasingly elaborate stage production blurs the boundaries between art, reality, and identity.
  • B. The Meyerowitz Stories
    The Meyerowitz Stories is a 2017 Noah Baumbach film, starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Dustin Hoffman, that follows a dysfunctional New York family reuniting around their aging patriarch.
  • C. The Man Who Wasn't There
    The Man Who Wasn't There is a 2001 neo-noir crime film by the Coen brothers, known for its stark black-and-white cinematography and understated, existential storytelling.
  • D. Bored to Death
    Bored to Death is an American comedy television series that blends noir detective tropes with offbeat humor, following a struggling writer who moonlights as an unlicensed private investigator in Brooklyn.
  • E. Birdman
    Birdman is an American rapper, record executive, and co-founder of Cash Money Records, known for his influential role in Southern hip hop and for mentoring artists like Lil Wayne.
  • 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: A Serious Man
Triple: [Ethan Coen, notableWork, A Serious Man]
Generated description
A Serious Man is a darkly comic 2009 film by Joel and Ethan Coen that follows a physics professor whose life unravels amid a series of personal and professional crises, exploring themes of faith, fate, and uncertainty.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Serious Man
Target entity description: A Serious Man is a darkly comic 2009 film by Joel and Ethan Coen that follows a physics professor whose life unravels amid a series of personal and professional crises, exploring themes of faith, fate, and uncertainty.
  • A. Synecdoche, New York
    Synecdoche, New York is a 2008 surreal drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman that follows a theater director whose increasingly elaborate stage production blurs the boundaries between art, reality, and identity.
  • B. The Meyerowitz Stories
    The Meyerowitz Stories is a 2017 Noah Baumbach film, starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Dustin Hoffman, that follows a dysfunctional New York family reuniting around their aging patriarch.
  • C. The Man Who Wasn't There
    The Man Who Wasn't There is a 2001 neo-noir crime film by the Coen brothers, known for its stark black-and-white cinematography and understated, existential storytelling.
  • D. Bored to Death
    Bored to Death is an American comedy television series that blends noir detective tropes with offbeat humor, following a struggling writer who moonlights as an unlicensed private investigator in Brooklyn.
  • E. Birdman
    Birdman is an American rapper, record executive, and co-founder of Cash Money Records, known for his influential role in Southern hip hop and for mentoring artists like Lil Wayne.
  • 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_69aed94118148190975e6aa4e554cde9 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefa1d9d8c8190982d092a73d38564 completed March 9, 2026, 4:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5403970e08190bb491048b1bd7b16 completed March 14, 2026, 11:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b54112e3788190800e295a745c4689 completed March 14, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b541808d548190987ad1538c647664 completed March 14, 2026, 11:07 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:33 p.m.