Triple

T4559767
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Company Men E120563 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Phil Woodward
Phil Woodward is a middle-aged executive in the film "The Company Men" whose career and identity are upended by corporate downsizing.
 E452263 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: Phil Woodward | Statement: [The Company Men, mainCharacter, Phil Woodward]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Phil Woodward
Context triple: [The Company Men, mainCharacter, Phil Woodward]
  • A. Tony Eason
    Tony Eason is a former American football quarterback best known for playing in the NFL during the 1980s, primarily with the New England Patriots.
  • B. Leon Jaworski
    Leon Jaworski was a prominent American lawyer best known for serving as the Watergate special prosecutor who pursued the case against President Richard Nixon.
  • C. Del Harris
    Del Harris is an American basketball coach best known for his long NBA coaching career, including head coaching stints with the Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks, and Los Angeles Lakers.
  • D. Babe Siebert
    Babe Siebert was a Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player known as a rugged, versatile star of the NHL in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • E. Jim Hughson
    Jim Hughson is a Canadian sportscaster best known as one of the premier play-by-play voices in NHL broadcasting.
  • 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: Phil Woodward
Triple: [The Company Men, mainCharacter, Phil Woodward]
Generated description
Phil Woodward is a middle-aged executive in the film "The Company Men" whose career and identity are upended by corporate downsizing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Phil Woodward
Target entity description: Phil Woodward is a middle-aged executive in the film "The Company Men" whose career and identity are upended by corporate downsizing.
  • A. Tony Eason
    Tony Eason is a former American football quarterback best known for playing in the NFL during the 1980s, primarily with the New England Patriots.
  • B. Leon Jaworski
    Leon Jaworski was a prominent American lawyer best known for serving as the Watergate special prosecutor who pursued the case against President Richard Nixon.
  • C. Del Harris
    Del Harris is an American basketball coach best known for his long NBA coaching career, including head coaching stints with the Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks, and Los Angeles Lakers.
  • D. Babe Siebert
    Babe Siebert was a Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player known as a rugged, versatile star of the NHL in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • E. Jim Hughson
    Jim Hughson is a Canadian sportscaster best known as one of the premier play-by-play voices in NHL broadcasting.
  • 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.