Triple

T4422651
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon E95137 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Roy William Neill
Roy William Neill was a film director best known for his work on several 1940s Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone.
E437308 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: Roy William Neill | Statement: [Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, director, Roy William Neill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roy William Neill
Context triple: [Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, director, Roy William Neill]
  • A. William Cameron Menzies
    William Cameron Menzies was a pioneering American film producer, director, and especially influential art director and production designer, renowned for shaping the visual style of early Hollywood cinema.
  • B. Stewart Menzies
    Stewart Menzies was the head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during World War II, overseeing key intelligence operations including those at Bletchley Park.
  • C. Granville Barker
    Granville Barker was an influential early 20th-century English actor, director, and playwright known for his innovative staging and advocacy of modern drama.
  • D. Ken Annakin
    Ken Annakin was a British film director known for his work on large-scale adventure and war films, including classics like "Swiss Family Robinson" and "The Longest Day."
  • E. Terence Fisher
    Terence Fisher was a British film director best known for his influential work on gothic horror films for Hammer Film Productions in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • 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: Roy William Neill
Triple: [Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, director, Roy William Neill]
Generated description
Roy William Neill was a film director best known for his work on several 1940s Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roy William Neill
Target entity description: Roy William Neill was a film director best known for his work on several 1940s Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone.
  • A. William Cameron Menzies
    William Cameron Menzies was a pioneering American film producer, director, and especially influential art director and production designer, renowned for shaping the visual style of early Hollywood cinema.
  • B. Stewart Menzies
    Stewart Menzies was the head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during World War II, overseeing key intelligence operations including those at Bletchley Park.
  • C. Granville Barker
    Granville Barker was an influential early 20th-century English actor, director, and playwright known for his innovative staging and advocacy of modern drama.
  • D. Ken Annakin
    Ken Annakin was a British film director known for his work on large-scale adventure and war films, including classics like "Swiss Family Robinson" and "The Longest Day."
  • E. Terence Fisher
    Terence Fisher was a British film director best known for his influential work on gothic horror films for Hammer Film Productions in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • 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_69b3453a36908190b95a79a297ca083c completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3554a0e7c8190b704d00d07b1857d completed March 13, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5f62bbee48190bae8fc7b9cc29086 completed March 14, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5f6b132a88190950cde007375965a completed March 15, 2026, midnight
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5f7794d7081909eb494c2119eaee7 completed March 15, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:30 p.m.