Triple

T5514975

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	The Letter (1940 film)	`E144658`	entity
Predicate	portraysCharacter	`P1668`	FINISHED
Object	Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie is the iconic lead performance in the 1940 film noir drama "The Letter," in which Davis plays a seemingly refined colonial wife whose involvement in a murder exposes deep moral ambiguity.	`E530717`	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: Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie | Statement: [The Letter (1940 film), portraysCharacter, Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie
Context triple: [The Letter (1940 film), portraysCharacter, Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie]

A. Angela Lansbury as Eleanor Iselin
Angela Lansbury as Eleanor Iselin is the chilling, manipulative mother and political power broker in the 1962 thriller "The Manchurian Candidate," widely regarded as one of Lansbury’s most iconic and sinister film roles.
B. Eve Harrington in All About Eve
Eve Harrington in *All About Eve* is the ambitious, seemingly innocent young fan who cunningly schemes her way into stardom at the expense of aging Broadway star Margo Channing.
C. Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer
Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer is the prim, resilient missionary heroine portrayed by Hepburn in the classic 1951 adventure film "The African Queen."
D. Barbara Stanwyck as Kathy Ferguson
Barbara Stanwyck as Kathy Ferguson is the sharp, ambitious advice columnist whose life and career are upended by marriage and obsession in the 1957 film noir "Crime of Passion."
E. Patricia Neal as Olivia Walton
Patricia Neal as Olivia Walton is the acclaimed actress’s portrayal of the strong, nurturing Walton family matriarch in the 1971 television film "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story," which served as the pilot for the series "The Waltons."
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: Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie
Triple: [The Letter (1940 film), portraysCharacter, Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie]

Generated description

Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie is the iconic lead performance in the 1940 film noir drama "The Letter," in which Davis plays a seemingly refined colonial wife whose involvement in a murder exposes deep moral ambiguity.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie
Target entity description: Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie is the iconic lead performance in the 1940 film noir drama "The Letter," in which Davis plays a seemingly refined colonial wife whose involvement in a murder exposes deep moral ambiguity.

A. Angela Lansbury as Eleanor Iselin
Angela Lansbury as Eleanor Iselin is the chilling, manipulative mother and political power broker in the 1962 thriller "The Manchurian Candidate," widely regarded as one of Lansbury’s most iconic and sinister film roles.
B. Eve Harrington in All About Eve
Eve Harrington in *All About Eve* is the ambitious, seemingly innocent young fan who cunningly schemes her way into stardom at the expense of aging Broadway star Margo Channing.
C. Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer
Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer is the prim, resilient missionary heroine portrayed by Hepburn in the classic 1951 adventure film "The African Queen."
D. Barbara Stanwyck as Kathy Ferguson
Barbara Stanwyck as Kathy Ferguson is the sharp, ambitious advice columnist whose life and career are upended by marriage and obsession in the 1957 film noir "Crime of Passion."
E. Patricia Neal as Olivia Walton
Patricia Neal as Olivia Walton is the acclaimed actress’s portrayal of the strong, nurturing Walton family matriarch in the 1971 television film "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story," which served as the pilot for the series "The Waltons."
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_69c008f77ff88190b0cd50ca207295d1`	completed	March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69c01f5b4e988190b590b4157cf089c1`	completed	March 22, 2026, 4:56 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69c027d92e0c8190ad5552d66e370a22`	completed	March 22, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69c0376eea3c8190af11dbb0030cc57d`	completed	March 22, 2026, 6:39 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69c0384d023081909cb0d4ba4b80c07e`	completed	March 22, 2026, 6:43 p.m.

Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:33 p.m.