Triple

T5442474
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Great McGinty E122167 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges was a pioneering American filmmaker and screenwriter of the 1940s, celebrated for his sharp, fast-paced screwball comedies and for being one of the first prominent writer-directors in Hollywood.
E524440 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: Preston Sturges | Statement: [The Great McGinty, director, Preston Sturges]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Preston Sturges
Context triple: [The Great McGinty, director, Preston Sturges]
  • A. Charles Brackett
    Charles Brackett was an American screenwriter and film producer best known for his long collaboration with Billy Wilder on classic Hollywood films such as "Sunset Boulevard" and "The Lost Weekend."
  • B. Billy Wilder
    Billy Wilder was an influential Austrian-American filmmaker renowned for his sharp wit and mastery of both comedy and drama in classic films such as "Sunset Boulevard," "Some Like It Hot," and "The Apartment."
  • C. Roy Huggins
    Roy Huggins was an American television producer, writer, and novelist best known for creating influential TV series such as Maverick, The Fugitive, and The Rockford Files.
  • D. Norman Taurog
    Norman Taurog was an American film director best known for his prolific work in Hollywood comedies and musicals, including several films with stars like Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and later Elvis Presley.
  • E. Frank Tashlin
    Frank Tashlin was an American animator, cartoonist, and film director known for his visually inventive, cartoon-influenced live-action comedies, particularly those starring Jerry Lewis.
  • 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: Preston Sturges
Triple: [The Great McGinty, director, Preston Sturges]
Generated description
Preston Sturges was a pioneering American filmmaker and screenwriter of the 1940s, celebrated for his sharp, fast-paced screwball comedies and for being one of the first prominent writer-directors in Hollywood.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Preston Sturges
Target entity description: Preston Sturges was a pioneering American filmmaker and screenwriter of the 1940s, celebrated for his sharp, fast-paced screwball comedies and for being one of the first prominent writer-directors in Hollywood.
  • A. Charles Brackett
    Charles Brackett was an American screenwriter and film producer best known for his long collaboration with Billy Wilder on classic Hollywood films such as "Sunset Boulevard" and "The Lost Weekend."
  • B. Billy Wilder
    Billy Wilder was an influential Austrian-American filmmaker renowned for his sharp wit and mastery of both comedy and drama in classic films such as "Sunset Boulevard," "Some Like It Hot," and "The Apartment."
  • C. Roy Huggins
    Roy Huggins was an American television producer, writer, and novelist best known for creating influential TV series such as Maverick, The Fugitive, and The Rockford Files.
  • D. Norman Taurog
    Norman Taurog was an American film director best known for his prolific work in Hollywood comedies and musicals, including several films with stars like Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and later Elvis Presley.
  • E. Frank Tashlin
    Frank Tashlin was an American animator, cartoonist, and film director known for his visually inventive, cartoon-influenced live-action comedies, particularly those starring Jerry Lewis.
  • 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_69bd46400768819092925d461c0b8432 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd91cb5eec8190bdf2ef0bdea84a62 completed March 20, 2026, 6:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf70d2a5b481908a6fdc28bb2d2e11 completed March 22, 2026, 4:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf723db6148190861bf089dcd25cc0 completed March 22, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf728d8e888190b9b52fd31c43e055 completed March 22, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:07 p.m.