Triple

T5188367
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 2010: The Year We Make Contact E117086 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Dr. Walter Curnow
Dr. Walter Curnow is a fictional engineer and spacecraft designer who plays a central role in the science fiction film "2010: The Year We Make Contact," the sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey."
E503927 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: Dr. Walter Curnow | Statement: [2010: The Year We Make Contact, mainCharacter, Dr. Walter Curnow]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Walter Curnow
Context triple: [2010: The Year We Make Contact, mainCharacter, Dr. Walter Curnow]
  • A. Dr. Robert Hartley
    Dr. Robert Hartley is the mild-mannered Chicago psychologist and central comedic figure portrayed by Bob Newhart on the classic sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show."
  • B. Dr. Robert B. Hayling
    Dr. Robert B. Hayling was a prominent civil rights leader and dentist who played a key role in organizing and leading nonviolent protests against racial segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, during the early 1960s.
  • C. William Rooke Creswell
    William Rooke Creswell was a pioneering Australian naval officer often regarded as the "father of the Royal Australian Navy" for his key role in its establishment and development.
  • D. Dr. William Weir
    Dr. William Weir is a central character in the science fiction horror film "Event Horizon," portrayed as the troubled designer of the ill-fated experimental starship whose return from a mysterious journey triggers the movie’s terrifying events.
  • E. Norman Z. McLeod
    Norman Z. McLeod was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood comedies in the 1930s and 1940s, including films with the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields.
  • 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: Dr. Walter Curnow
Triple: [2010: The Year We Make Contact, mainCharacter, Dr. Walter Curnow]
Generated description
Dr. Walter Curnow is a fictional engineer and spacecraft designer who plays a central role in the science fiction film "2010: The Year We Make Contact," the sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Walter Curnow
Target entity description: Dr. Walter Curnow is a fictional engineer and spacecraft designer who plays a central role in the science fiction film "2010: The Year We Make Contact," the sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey."
  • A. Dr. Robert Hartley
    Dr. Robert Hartley is the mild-mannered Chicago psychologist and central comedic figure portrayed by Bob Newhart on the classic sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show."
  • B. Dr. Robert B. Hayling
    Dr. Robert B. Hayling was a prominent civil rights leader and dentist who played a key role in organizing and leading nonviolent protests against racial segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, during the early 1960s.
  • C. William Rooke Creswell
    William Rooke Creswell was a pioneering Australian naval officer often regarded as the "father of the Royal Australian Navy" for his key role in its establishment and development.
  • D. Dr. William Weir
    Dr. William Weir is a central character in the science fiction horror film "Event Horizon," portrayed as the troubled designer of the ill-fated experimental starship whose return from a mysterious journey triggers the movie’s terrifying events.
  • E. Norman Z. McLeod
    Norman Z. McLeod was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood comedies in the 1930s and 1940s, including films with the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields.
  • 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_69bd44620ff48190bcac01782107a397 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd79c56280819085926316f7b520bc completed March 20, 2026, 4:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69beefb6eaac8190a34b01c6e30b41dc completed March 21, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bef244f8d88190bc88767fc9e859a2 completed March 21, 2026, 7:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bef2d5a9508190a6ef4c3bb4f7dd02 completed March 21, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:46 p.m.