Triple
T5349436
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Purple Mask |
E124138
|
entity |
| Predicate | director |
P255
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
H. Bruce Humberstone
H. Bruce Humberstone was an American film director best known for his work on Hollywood studio features from the 1930s through the 1950s, including entries in the Charlie Chan series and various adventure and comedy films.
|
E543727
|
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: H. Bruce Humberstone | Statement: [The Purple Mask, director, H. Bruce Humberstone]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: H. Bruce Humberstone Context triple: [The Purple Mask, director, H. Bruce Humberstone]
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A.
R. Bruce Lindsay
R. Bruce Lindsay was an American physicist and acoustician known for his influential work in physical acoustics and contributions to the history and philosophy of science.
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B.
Ian J. Turpin
Ian J. Turpin is a Scottish-born businessman and financial executive best known as the husband of Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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C.
Jack G. Hills
Jack G. Hills is an astronomer best known for proposing the existence of the distant reservoir of comets now called the Hills cloud, an extension of the Oort cloud.
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D.
David C. Hilmers
David C. Hilmers is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Marine Corps officer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions before later becoming a physician and academic.
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E.
George R. Ricker
George R. Ricker is an American astrophysicist known for leading major space-based exoplanet-hunting missions, including serving as principal investigator of NASA’s TESS project.
- 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: H. Bruce Humberstone Triple: [The Purple Mask, director, H. Bruce Humberstone]
Generated description
H. Bruce Humberstone was an American film director best known for his work on Hollywood studio features from the 1930s through the 1950s, including entries in the Charlie Chan series and various adventure and comedy films.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: H. Bruce Humberstone Target entity description: H. Bruce Humberstone was an American film director best known for his work on Hollywood studio features from the 1930s through the 1950s, including entries in the Charlie Chan series and various adventure and comedy films.
-
A.
R. Bruce Lindsay
R. Bruce Lindsay was an American physicist and acoustician known for his influential work in physical acoustics and contributions to the history and philosophy of science.
-
B.
Ian J. Turpin
Ian J. Turpin is a Scottish-born businessman and financial executive best known as the husband of Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
-
C.
Jack G. Hills
Jack G. Hills is an astronomer best known for proposing the existence of the distant reservoir of comets now called the Hills cloud, an extension of the Oort cloud.
-
D.
David C. Hilmers
David C. Hilmers is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Marine Corps officer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions before later becoming a physician and academic.
-
E.
George R. Ricker
George R. Ricker is an American astrophysicist known for leading major space-based exoplanet-hunting missions, including serving as principal investigator of NASA’s TESS project.
- 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_69bd464be27081908807b40b75c1bbae |
completed | March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd860ea7088190ad7be14132927d17 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 5:38 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c07d466cbc8190a91dcc0c26aba817 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 11:37 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c0865e261c8190b54bec80ed6a9aaf |
completed | March 23, 2026, 12:16 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c086b52dec8190bea2e13991389992 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 12:17 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:01 p.m.