Triple
T4363218
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | David Bowie |
E98709
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableRole |
P22
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth
Thomas Jerome Newton is the enigmatic alien protagonist of the 1976 science fiction film "The Man Who Fell to Earth," who comes to Earth seeking water for his dying planet and becomes corrupted by human society.
|
E434427
|
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: Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth | Statement: [David Bowie, notableRole, Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth Context triple: [David Bowie, notableRole, Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth]
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A.
John Laurie
John Laurie was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic British films and for playing Private Frazer in the television series "Dad's Army."
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B.
Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Roy Neary is the everyman electrical lineman whose obsessive pursuit of a mysterious UFO encounter drives the central narrative of Steven Spielberg’s film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
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C.
Daniel Quasar
Daniel Quasar is a graphic designer best known for creating the Progress Pride Flag, an updated version of the rainbow flag that emphasizes inclusion and intersectionality within the LGBTQ+ community.
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D.
Seth Brundle
Seth Brundle is the brilliant but doomed scientist who transforms into a human-fly hybrid in David Cronenberg’s 1986 horror film "The Fly."
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E.
Charlie Gordon
Charlie Gordon is the intellectually disabled man who undergoes experimental surgery to increase his intelligence in Daniel Keyes’s science fiction story "Flowers for Algernon."
- 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: Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth Triple: [David Bowie, notableRole, Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth]
Generated description
Thomas Jerome Newton is the enigmatic alien protagonist of the 1976 science fiction film "The Man Who Fell to Earth," who comes to Earth seeking water for his dying planet and becomes corrupted by human society.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth Target entity description: Thomas Jerome Newton is the enigmatic alien protagonist of the 1976 science fiction film "The Man Who Fell to Earth," who comes to Earth seeking water for his dying planet and becomes corrupted by human society.
-
A.
John Laurie
John Laurie was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic British films and for playing Private Frazer in the television series "Dad's Army."
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B.
Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Roy Neary is the everyman electrical lineman whose obsessive pursuit of a mysterious UFO encounter drives the central narrative of Steven Spielberg’s film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
-
C.
Daniel Quasar
Daniel Quasar is a graphic designer best known for creating the Progress Pride Flag, an updated version of the rainbow flag that emphasizes inclusion and intersectionality within the LGBTQ+ community.
-
D.
Seth Brundle
Seth Brundle is the brilliant but doomed scientist who transforms into a human-fly hybrid in David Cronenberg’s 1986 horror film "The Fly."
-
E.
Charlie Gordon
Charlie Gordon is the intellectually disabled man who undergoes experimental surgery to increase his intelligence in Daniel Keyes’s science fiction story "Flowers for Algernon."
- 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_69b3454c772081908e20173e379e8ebe |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b351e70a748190af6f1b709a0e75e6 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 11:53 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5dbc68534819095ce62645ca79eff |
completed | March 14, 2026, 10:05 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b5df8336e881908c875b8411c2fe4d |
completed | March 14, 2026, 10:21 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b5e0ded0288190b615364e9ae10821 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 10:27 p.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:16 p.m.