Triple

T5043206
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Iron Sheriff E113595 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object John K. Butler
John K. Butler was an American screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century Westerns and crime films.
 E492433 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 K. Butler | Statement: [The Iron Sheriff, screenwriter, John K. Butler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John K. Butler
Context triple: [The Iron Sheriff, screenwriter, John K. Butler]
  • A. Peter Butler
    Peter Butler is an English football manager and former player known for coaching various national and club teams, including the Liberia national football team.
  • B. Andrew P. Butler
    Andrew P. Butler was a pro-slavery U.S. senator from South Carolina whose strong support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act and slavery made him a central and controversial figure in the events leading up to the Bleeding Kansas crisis.
  • C. Michael C. Butler
    Michael C. Butler is a cinematographer best known for his work on the blockbuster sequel film "Jaws 2."
  • D. Reg Butler
    Reg Butler was a British sculptor known for his expressive, often skeletal metal figures and his prominence in postwar European modernist sculpture.
  • E. Jon A. McBride
    Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
  • 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 K. Butler
Triple: [The Iron Sheriff, screenwriter, John K. Butler]
Generated description
John K. Butler was an American screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century Westerns and crime films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John K. Butler
Target entity description: John K. Butler was an American screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century Westerns and crime films.
  • A. Peter Butler
    Peter Butler is an English football manager and former player known for coaching various national and club teams, including the Liberia national football team.
  • B. Andrew P. Butler
    Andrew P. Butler was a pro-slavery U.S. senator from South Carolina whose strong support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act and slavery made him a central and controversial figure in the events leading up to the Bleeding Kansas crisis.
  • C. Michael C. Butler
    Michael C. Butler is a cinematographer best known for his work on the blockbuster sequel film "Jaws 2."
  • D. Reg Butler
    Reg Butler was a British sculptor known for his expressive, often skeletal metal figures and his prominence in postwar European modernist sculpture.
  • E. Jon A. McBride
    Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
  • 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_69bd44391fc48190a311ce9c826c209b completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd73fc04f08190aba851fa0192d0fb completed March 20, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69beb0f746788190bf73b8b5069e89cb completed March 21, 2026, 2:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69beb32f4364819081d47103fe97a5da completed March 21, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69beb39eebd881909618dd628d90f261 completed March 21, 2026, 3:05 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:37 p.m.