Triple

T5159798
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Intruder in the Dust E116407 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object David Clarke
David Clarke was an actor known for his role in the 1949 film adaptation of William Faulkner's "Intruder in the Dust" and for his work in mid-20th-century American cinema and television.
E497240 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: David Clarke | Statement: [Intruder in the Dust, castMember, David Clarke]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Clarke
Context triple: [Intruder in the Dust, castMember, David Clarke]
  • A. Peter Clarke
    Peter Clarke is the father of British actress Emilia Clarke, known for his work as a theatre sound engineer.
  • B. Warren Clarke
    Warren Clarke was a British character actor known for his powerful performances in film and television, including notable roles in "A Clockwork Orange" and the series "Dalziel and Pascoe."
  • C. Andrew Clarke
    Andrew Clarke was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and Governor of the Straits Settlements known for consolidating British influence in the Malay Peninsula.
  • D. John Clarke
    John Clarke was a 17th-century English-born Baptist minister, physician, and colonial leader best known as a co-founder of Rhode Island and a key advocate for religious liberty in early America.
  • E. Steve Barclay
    Steve Barclay is a British Conservative politician who has held several senior UK government roles, including serving in the Cabinet.
  • 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: David Clarke
Triple: [Intruder in the Dust, castMember, David Clarke]
Generated description
David Clarke was an actor known for his role in the 1949 film adaptation of William Faulkner's "Intruder in the Dust" and for his work in mid-20th-century American cinema and television.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Clarke
Target entity description: David Clarke was an actor known for his role in the 1949 film adaptation of William Faulkner's "Intruder in the Dust" and for his work in mid-20th-century American cinema and television.
  • A. Peter Clarke
    Peter Clarke is the father of British actress Emilia Clarke, known for his work as a theatre sound engineer.
  • B. Warren Clarke
    Warren Clarke was a British character actor known for his powerful performances in film and television, including notable roles in "A Clockwork Orange" and the series "Dalziel and Pascoe."
  • C. Andrew Clarke
    Andrew Clarke was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and Governor of the Straits Settlements known for consolidating British influence in the Malay Peninsula.
  • D. John Clarke
    John Clarke was a 17th-century English-born Baptist minister, physician, and colonial leader best known as a co-founder of Rhode Island and a key advocate for religious liberty in early America.
  • E. Steve Barclay
    Steve Barclay is a British Conservative politician who has held several senior UK government roles, including serving in the Cabinet.
  • 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_69bd445edb3881909b93b34d260717fc completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd790613bc819084765cd4ea648dc9 completed March 20, 2026, 4:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bed01ce48081908813348b762bf1b0 completed March 21, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bed08b4acc819096e7fd2fd9dbc73a completed March 21, 2026, 5:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bed103a1088190abca6e7d1fbd9c2b completed March 21, 2026, 5:10 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:44 p.m.