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]
  • 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."
  • 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
  • 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."
  • 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.