Triple

T5139544
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Claudette Colbert E115910 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Imitation of Life (1934 film)
Imitation of Life (1934 film) is a classic American drama that explores race, class, and motherhood through the intertwined lives of a white businesswoman and her Black housekeeper and their daughters.
E495609 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: Imitation of Life (1934 film) | Statement: [Claudette Colbert, notableWork, Imitation of Life (1934 film)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Imitation of Life (1934 film)
Context triple: [Claudette Colbert, notableWork, Imitation of Life (1934 film)]
  • A. The Divorcee (1930)
    The Divorcee (1930) is a pre-Code American drama film, produced at MGM, that became notable for its frank treatment of marriage and infidelity and earned Norma Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
  • B. Mildred Pierce (1945 film)
    Mildred Pierce (1945 film) is a classic American film noir–melodrama that revitalized Joan Crawford’s career, featuring her Oscar-winning performance as a self-sacrificing mother entangled in crime and family betrayal.
  • C. The Lady Is a Tramp
    "The Lady Is a Tramp" is a popular show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical "Babes in Arms," later becoming a jazz and pop standard widely recorded by major artists.
  • D. Smilin’ Through (1932)
    Smilin’ Through (1932) is a romantic drama film from Hollywood’s early sound era, best known as a prestige MGM production featuring themes of love, loss, and spiritual reunion.
  • E. Hollywood Revue of 1929
    Hollywood Revue of 1929 is an early MGM musical revue film notable for its all-star cast, lavish song-and-dance numbers, and use of early sound technology during the transition from silent movies.
  • 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: Imitation of Life (1934 film)
Triple: [Claudette Colbert, notableWork, Imitation of Life (1934 film)]
Generated description
Imitation of Life (1934 film) is a classic American drama that explores race, class, and motherhood through the intertwined lives of a white businesswoman and her Black housekeeper and their daughters.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Imitation of Life (1934 film)
Target entity description: Imitation of Life (1934 film) is a classic American drama that explores race, class, and motherhood through the intertwined lives of a white businesswoman and her Black housekeeper and their daughters.
  • A. The Divorcee (1930)
    The Divorcee (1930) is a pre-Code American drama film, produced at MGM, that became notable for its frank treatment of marriage and infidelity and earned Norma Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
  • B. Mildred Pierce (1945 film)
    Mildred Pierce (1945 film) is a classic American film noir–melodrama that revitalized Joan Crawford’s career, featuring her Oscar-winning performance as a self-sacrificing mother entangled in crime and family betrayal.
  • C. The Lady Is a Tramp
    "The Lady Is a Tramp" is a popular show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical "Babes in Arms," later becoming a jazz and pop standard widely recorded by major artists.
  • D. Smilin’ Through (1932)
    Smilin’ Through (1932) is a romantic drama film from Hollywood’s early sound era, best known as a prestige MGM production featuring themes of love, loss, and spiritual reunion.
  • E. Hollywood Revue of 1929
    Hollywood Revue of 1929 is an early MGM musical revue film notable for its all-star cast, lavish song-and-dance numbers, and use of early sound technology during the transition from silent movies.
  • 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_69bd44459a988190a772a5c2ec6a1965 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd787ce7fc8190844b6078755cddad completed March 20, 2026, 4:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bec4d342c8819088f67c01d3769a6d completed March 21, 2026, 4:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bec5867eac819089ee2c5eddc32a4b completed March 21, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bec5eb535c819097deeb331f9f0f4d completed March 21, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:43 p.m.