Triple

T4827988
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film) E107871 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Campbell McCullough
Campbell McCullough was a screenwriter known for his work on the 1938 film adaptation of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
 E471058 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: Campbell McCullough | Statement: [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film), screenwriter, Campbell McCullough]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Campbell McCullough
Context triple: [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film), screenwriter, Campbell McCullough]
  • A. Johnston McCulley
    Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
  • B. Robert McDermott
    Robert McDermott is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals and public figures in various fields.
  • C. J. L. Chestnut
    J. L. Chestnut was a prominent civil rights attorney and activist from Alabama, known for his legal work challenging racial segregation and discrimination in the American South.
  • D. Barton MacLane
    Barton MacLane was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Hollywood films and later for his work in early television.
  • E. John Ketcham
    John Ketcham is a film producer best known for his work on the biographical sports drama "The Hurricane."
  • 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: Campbell McCullough
Triple: [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film), screenwriter, Campbell McCullough]
Generated description
Campbell McCullough was a screenwriter known for his work on the 1938 film adaptation of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Campbell McCullough
Target entity description: Campbell McCullough was a screenwriter known for his work on the 1938 film adaptation of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
  • A. Johnston McCulley
    Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
  • B. Robert McDermott
    Robert McDermott is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals and public figures in various fields.
  • C. J. L. Chestnut
    J. L. Chestnut was a prominent civil rights attorney and activist from Alabama, known for his legal work challenging racial segregation and discrimination in the American South.
  • D. Barton MacLane
    Barton MacLane was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Hollywood films and later for his work in early television.
  • E. John Ketcham
    John Ketcham is a film producer best known for his work on the biographical sports drama "The Hurricane."
  • 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_69bd43fac8188190803f0327190621e4 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6cc3dc0481909c8884dbe5043a71 completed March 20, 2026, 3:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be4dcd3ecc8190a5223f00344019ff completed March 21, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be4e6257e081908c0948945b9b4081 completed March 21, 2026, 7:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be4eb4cc608190b8f0fef0a8e121f3 completed March 21, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:24 p.m.