Triple

T4559764
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Company Men E120563 entity
Predicate portraysCharacter P1668 FINISHED
Object Ben Affleck as Bobby Walker
Ben Affleck as Bobby Walker is the central character in the corporate downsizing drama "The Company Men," depicting a high-flying executive forced to confront unemployment, identity, and family pressures after losing his job.
E452260 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: Ben Affleck as Bobby Walker | Statement: [The Company Men, portraysCharacter, Ben Affleck as Bobby Walker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Affleck as Bobby Walker
Context triple: [The Company Men, portraysCharacter, Ben Affleck as Bobby Walker]
  • A. Sylvester Stallone as Gabe Walker
    Sylvester Stallone as Gabe Walker is the rugged, guilt-ridden mountain rescue climber who leads the high-altitude action and survival drama in the film "Cliffhanger."
  • B. Ryan Gosling as Stephen Meyers
    Ryan Gosling as Stephen Meyers portrays an idealistic yet increasingly compromised young political strategist navigating moral ambiguity in the film "The Ides of March."
  • C. Bradley Cooper as Pat Solitano
    Bradley Cooper as Pat Solitano is the intense, emotionally volatile former teacher struggling with bipolar disorder whose journey toward stability and unexpected romance drives the film’s narrative.
  • D. Ben Stiller as David Starsky
    Ben Stiller as David Starsky refers to Stiller’s comedic portrayal of the energetic, streetwise detective David Starsky in the 2004 film adaptation of the classic TV series "Starsky & Hutch."
  • E. Mark Wahlberg as Bob Lee Swagger
    Mark Wahlberg as Bob Lee Swagger portrays a highly skilled and wrongfully framed ex-Marine sniper who seeks to uncover a government conspiracy and clear his name.
  • 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: Ben Affleck as Bobby Walker
Triple: [The Company Men, portraysCharacter, Ben Affleck as Bobby Walker]
Generated description
Ben Affleck as Bobby Walker is the central character in the corporate downsizing drama "The Company Men," depicting a high-flying executive forced to confront unemployment, identity, and family pressures after losing his job.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Affleck as Bobby Walker
Target entity description: Ben Affleck as Bobby Walker is the central character in the corporate downsizing drama "The Company Men," depicting a high-flying executive forced to confront unemployment, identity, and family pressures after losing his job.
  • A. Sylvester Stallone as Gabe Walker
    Sylvester Stallone as Gabe Walker is the rugged, guilt-ridden mountain rescue climber who leads the high-altitude action and survival drama in the film "Cliffhanger."
  • B. Ryan Gosling as Stephen Meyers
    Ryan Gosling as Stephen Meyers portrays an idealistic yet increasingly compromised young political strategist navigating moral ambiguity in the film "The Ides of March."
  • C. Bradley Cooper as Pat Solitano
    Bradley Cooper as Pat Solitano is the intense, emotionally volatile former teacher struggling with bipolar disorder whose journey toward stability and unexpected romance drives the film’s narrative.
  • D. Ben Stiller as David Starsky
    Ben Stiller as David Starsky refers to Stiller’s comedic portrayal of the energetic, streetwise detective David Starsky in the 2004 film adaptation of the classic TV series "Starsky & Hutch."
  • E. Mark Wahlberg as Bob Lee Swagger
    Mark Wahlberg as Bob Lee Swagger portrays a highly skilled and wrongfully framed ex-Marine sniper who seeks to uncover a government conspiracy and clear his name.
  • 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_69bd4636f1648190a701445c2fcd9c17 completed March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd582b871c8190be0b70c76d639000 completed March 20, 2026, 2:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdc593eaf881908a9043366230b391 completed March 20, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdc5f0b52c8190bbfa2a6a22d56725 completed March 20, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdc63b1e0881908f861f7c9c5ce3ac completed March 20, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:09 p.m.