Triple

T4609766
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Serpent and the Rainbow E100525 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Richard Maxwell
Richard Maxwell is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the horror film "The Serpent and the Rainbow," adapted from Wade Davis's non-fiction book about Haitian Vodou and zombification.
 E471071 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: Richard Maxwell | Statement: [The Serpent and the Rainbow, screenwriter, Richard Maxwell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard Maxwell
Context triple: [The Serpent and the Rainbow, screenwriter, Richard Maxwell]
  • A. Donald Cargill
    Donald Cargill was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and Covenanter leader known for his fierce opposition to royal interference in the church and his eventual execution for treason.
  • B. Richard N. Goodwin
    Richard N. Goodwin was an American speechwriter, political advisor, and author who served in the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and played a key role in shaping Great Society rhetoric.
  • C. Charles Ewing
    Charles Ewing was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and later a federal official, known as a prominent member of the influential Ewing family.
  • D. Richard Franklin
    Richard Franklin was a British actor best known for playing Captain Mike Yates in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
  • E. Robert George Young
    Robert George Young was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in the series "Father Knows Best" and "Marcus Welby, M.D."
  • 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: Richard Maxwell
Triple: [The Serpent and the Rainbow, screenwriter, Richard Maxwell]
Generated description
Richard Maxwell is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the horror film "The Serpent and the Rainbow," adapted from Wade Davis's non-fiction book about Haitian Vodou and zombification.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard Maxwell
Target entity description: Richard Maxwell is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the horror film "The Serpent and the Rainbow," adapted from Wade Davis's non-fiction book about Haitian Vodou and zombification.
  • A. Donald Cargill
    Donald Cargill was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and Covenanter leader known for his fierce opposition to royal interference in the church and his eventual execution for treason.
  • B. Richard N. Goodwin
    Richard N. Goodwin was an American speechwriter, political advisor, and author who served in the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and played a key role in shaping Great Society rhetoric.
  • C. Charles Ewing
    Charles Ewing was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and later a federal official, known as a prominent member of the influential Ewing family.
  • D. Richard Franklin
    Richard Franklin was a British actor best known for playing Captain Mike Yates in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
  • E. Robert George Young
    Robert George Young was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in the series "Father Knows Best" and "Marcus Welby, M.D."
  • 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_69bd43cce1e08190a07d53af6a9b6c24 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd599f08d88190ad4bed8bafb592cd completed March 20, 2026, 2:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be4d6d97fc819095d585ade9de201d completed March 21, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be4e38bccc81909102f922fd395568 completed March 21, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be4ea8fa708190909e26268b49b678 completed March 21, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:12 p.m.