Triple

T4626153
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wild Things E101101 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object John McNaughton
John McNaughton is an American film and television director best known for his dark, provocative works such as the cult thriller "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer."
E456425 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: John McNaughton | Statement: [Wild Things, director, John McNaughton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John McNaughton
Context triple: [Wild Things, director, John McNaughton]
  • A. Warren Oates
    Warren Oates was an American character actor known for his rugged, intense performances in films such as "The Wild Bunch," "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia," and numerous other Westerns and crime dramas of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. Barrett Foa
    Barrett Foa is an American actor best known for his long-running role as tech specialist Eric Beale on the television series NCIS: Los Angeles.
  • C. Michael Blodgett
    Michael Blodgett was an American actor, screenwriter, and producer known for his work in film and television from the late 1960s onward.
  • D. John Christie
    John Christie was a British landowner and music patron best known for establishing the Glyndebourne Festival Opera at his country estate.
  • E. Edward Herrmann
    Edward Herrmann was an American actor known for his distinguished character roles in film and television, including portrayals of historical figures and his role as Richard Gilmore on "Gilmore Girls."
  • 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: John McNaughton
Triple: [Wild Things, director, John McNaughton]
Generated description
John McNaughton is an American film and television director best known for his dark, provocative works such as the cult thriller "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John McNaughton
Target entity description: John McNaughton is an American film and television director best known for his dark, provocative works such as the cult thriller "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer."
  • A. Warren Oates
    Warren Oates was an American character actor known for his rugged, intense performances in films such as "The Wild Bunch," "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia," and numerous other Westerns and crime dramas of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. Barrett Foa
    Barrett Foa is an American actor best known for his long-running role as tech specialist Eric Beale on the television series NCIS: Los Angeles.
  • C. Michael Blodgett
    Michael Blodgett was an American actor, screenwriter, and producer known for his work in film and television from the late 1960s onward.
  • D. John Christie
    John Christie was a British landowner and music patron best known for establishing the Glyndebourne Festival Opera at his country estate.
  • E. Edward Herrmann
    Edward Herrmann was an American actor known for his distinguished character roles in film and television, including portrayals of historical figures and his role as Richard Gilmore on "Gilmore Girls."
  • 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_69bd43d0497c8190ac23c65c5804846a completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5a0a7b588190bc6552ee5babb198 completed March 20, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfaab30508190881828adab92ba22 completed March 21, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfb56021081909b23d22770bf3c88 completed March 21, 2026, 1:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfbeddd7c8190955bd3363fec4ca1 completed March 21, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:13 p.m.