Triple

T4763745
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject They Drive by Night E105758 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Paul Fabrini
Paul Fabrini is the tough, hardworking truck driver protagonist of the 1940 film noir drama "They Drive by Night."
E501812 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: Paul Fabrini | Statement: [They Drive by Night, mainCharacter, Paul Fabrini]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Fabrini
Context triple: [They Drive by Night, mainCharacter, Paul Fabrini]
  • A. Paul Picerni
    Paul Picerni was an American film and television actor best known for his role as Agent Lee Hobson on the TV series "The Untouchables."
  • B. Ettore de Rossi
    Ettore de Rossi was an Italian general who commanded forces of the Italian Army in Russia (ARMIR) during World War II.
  • C. Paolo Riccio
    Paolo Riccio was a 16th-century Jewish convert to Christianity, scholar, and theologian known for his influential writings that integrated Christian theology with Kabbalistic thought.
  • D. Franco Arcalli
    Franco Arcalli was an Italian film editor and screenwriter known for his innovative work on influential European art films of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. Carlo Confalonieri
    Carlo Confalonieri was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who held several high-ranking curial positions and was a close collaborator of multiple popes in the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Paul Fabrini
Triple: [They Drive by Night, mainCharacter, Paul Fabrini]
Generated description
Paul Fabrini is the tough, hardworking truck driver protagonist of the 1940 film noir drama "They Drive by Night."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Fabrini
Target entity description: Paul Fabrini is the tough, hardworking truck driver protagonist of the 1940 film noir drama "They Drive by Night."
  • A. Paul Picerni
    Paul Picerni was an American film and television actor best known for his role as Agent Lee Hobson on the TV series "The Untouchables."
  • B. Paolo Seganti
    Paolo Seganti is an Italian actor known for his work in film and television, including prominent roles in both European productions and American soap operas.
  • C. Ettore de Rossi
    Ettore de Rossi was an Italian general who commanded forces of the Italian Army in Russia (ARMIR) during World War II.
  • D. Paolo Riccio
    Paolo Riccio was a 16th-century Jewish convert to Christianity, scholar, and theologian known for his influential writings that integrated Christian theology with Kabbalistic thought.
  • E. Franco Arcalli
    Franco Arcalli was an Italian film editor and screenwriter known for his innovative work on influential European art films of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • 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_69bd43f14cac819081c7c69803648211 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6530f0648190b76db9964471cfeb completed March 20, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bee059e7088190a04124e5918a3c42 completed March 21, 2026, 6:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bee66191dc8190847fe13f2cda0000 completed March 21, 2026, 6:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bee6e8bbcc819094f5f04743eb4013 completed March 21, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:20 p.m.