Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject It's a Wonderful Life E98970 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Henry F. Potter
Henry F. Potter is the ruthless, wealthy antagonist in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life," known for trying to control and exploit the town of Bedford Falls.
E434948 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: Henry F. Potter | Statement: [It's a Wonderful Life, character, Henry F. Potter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry F. Potter
Context triple: [It's a Wonderful Life, character, Henry F. Potter]
  • A. Henry C. Potter
    Henry C. Potter was an American film and television director best known for his work in mid-20th-century Hollywood cinema.
  • B. Gustavus W. Smith
    Gustavus W. Smith was a Confederate major general and briefly acting commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
  • C. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • D. Potter Palmer
    Potter Palmer was a prominent 19th-century Chicago businessman and hotelier whose real estate developments, including along State Street, helped shape the city’s commercial core.
  • E. Charles Ranlett Flint
    Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
  • 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: Henry F. Potter
Triple: [It's a Wonderful Life, character, Henry F. Potter]
Generated description
Henry F. Potter is the ruthless, wealthy antagonist in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life," known for trying to control and exploit the town of Bedford Falls.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry F. Potter
Target entity description: Henry F. Potter is the ruthless, wealthy antagonist in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life," known for trying to control and exploit the town of Bedford Falls.
  • A. Henry C. Potter
    Henry C. Potter was an American film and television director best known for his work in mid-20th-century Hollywood cinema.
  • B. Gustavus W. Smith
    Gustavus W. Smith was a Confederate major general and briefly acting commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
  • C. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • D. Potter Palmer
    Potter Palmer was a prominent 19th-century Chicago businessman and hotelier whose real estate developments, including along State Street, helped shape the city’s commercial core.
  • E. Charles Ranlett Flint
    Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
  • 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_69b3454db3708190aeafd814413c4c3d completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b35220fa648190b116e786783a7eba completed March 12, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e512350081908da06038e3080a3e completed March 14, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5e58d77d88190b59e372eeec35195 completed March 14, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5e5fa68c08190a482cb7ea9030515 completed March 14, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:17 p.m.