Triple

T4795435
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Big Trail E106699 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Hal G. Evarts
Hal G. Evarts was an American writer known for his Western-themed stories and screenplays in early Hollywood cinema.
E470459 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: Hal G. Evarts | Statement: [The Big Trail, screenwriter, Hal G. Evarts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hal G. Evarts
Context triple: [The Big Trail, screenwriter, Hal G. Evarts]
  • A. Luther L. Terry
    Luther L. Terry was an American physician and U.S. Surgeon General best known for issuing the landmark 1964 report that publicly linked cigarette smoking to serious health risks and transformed public health policy on tobacco.
  • B. William M. Evarts
    William M. Evarts was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, statesman, and U.S. Secretary of State who played a key role in major legal and political developments of his era.
  • C. Oliver Ellsworth Buckley
    Oliver Ellsworth Buckley was an American physicist and former president of Bell Telephone Laboratories known for his influential contributions to telecommunications and condensed matter physics.
  • D. Charles Sumner Hamlin
    Charles Sumner Hamlin was an American lawyer and government official best known as the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, serving in the early 20th century.
  • E. William Maxwell Evarts Perkins
    William Maxwell Evarts Perkins, better known as Maxwell Perkins, was a legendary American book editor famed for nurturing the careers of authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
  • 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: Hal G. Evarts
Triple: [The Big Trail, screenwriter, Hal G. Evarts]
Generated description
Hal G. Evarts was an American writer known for his Western-themed stories and screenplays in early Hollywood cinema.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hal G. Evarts
Target entity description: Hal G. Evarts was an American writer known for his Western-themed stories and screenplays in early Hollywood cinema.
  • A. Luther L. Terry
    Luther L. Terry was an American physician and U.S. Surgeon General best known for issuing the landmark 1964 report that publicly linked cigarette smoking to serious health risks and transformed public health policy on tobacco.
  • B. William M. Evarts
    William M. Evarts was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, statesman, and U.S. Secretary of State who played a key role in major legal and political developments of his era.
  • C. Oliver Ellsworth Buckley
    Oliver Ellsworth Buckley was an American physicist and former president of Bell Telephone Laboratories known for his influential contributions to telecommunications and condensed matter physics.
  • D. Charles Sumner Hamlin
    Charles Sumner Hamlin was an American lawyer and government official best known as the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, serving in the early 20th century.
  • E. William Maxwell Evarts Perkins
    William Maxwell Evarts Perkins, better known as Maxwell Perkins, was a legendary American book editor famed for nurturing the careers of authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
  • 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_69bd43f591c881909e5a532388b0f3f3 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6609e9888190b49f99bb9fb2279d completed March 20, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be43f512e0819086cc33009cd45c9a completed March 21, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be44cb99ac819089bbb941709a93c4 completed March 21, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be451e8d7c81908d856e7966daa5fe completed March 21, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:22 p.m.