Triple

T5692450
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Manhunter (film) E125456 entity
Predicate portraysCharacter P1668 FINISHED
Object William Petersen as Will Graham
William Petersen as Will Graham is the lead portrayal of the haunted FBI profiler tracking a cannibalistic serial killer in Michael Mann’s 1986 thriller "Manhunter," adapted from Thomas Harris’s novel "Red Dragon."
E540730 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: William Petersen as Will Graham | Statement: [Manhunter (film), portraysCharacter, William Petersen as Will Graham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Petersen as Will Graham
Context triple: [Manhunter (film), portraysCharacter, William Petersen as Will Graham]
  • A. Terry O'Quinn
    Terry O'Quinn is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning portrayal of the enigmatic John Locke on the television series "Lost."
  • B. Dr. Richard Kimble
    Dr. Richard Kimble is the wrongfully accused surgeon protagonist of "The Fugitive," best known from Harrison Ford’s portrayal in the 1993 film adaptation.
  • C. Peter Masterson
    Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
  • D. Walter Skinner
    Walter Skinner is a high-ranking FBI assistant director who oversees and often clashes with Agents Mulder and Scully in the science fiction television series The X-Files.
  • E. Bruce Dern as Asa Watts
    Bruce Dern as Asa Watts is the actor’s memorable portrayal of the ruthless cattle thief and primary antagonist in the 1972 Western film "The Cowboys."
  • 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: William Petersen as Will Graham
Triple: [Manhunter (film), portraysCharacter, William Petersen as Will Graham]
Generated description
William Petersen as Will Graham is the lead portrayal of the haunted FBI profiler tracking a cannibalistic serial killer in Michael Mann’s 1986 thriller "Manhunter," adapted from Thomas Harris’s novel "Red Dragon."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Petersen as Will Graham
Target entity description: William Petersen as Will Graham is the lead portrayal of the haunted FBI profiler tracking a cannibalistic serial killer in Michael Mann’s 1986 thriller "Manhunter," adapted from Thomas Harris’s novel "Red Dragon."
  • A. Terry O'Quinn
    Terry O'Quinn is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning portrayal of the enigmatic John Locke on the television series "Lost."
  • B. Dr. Richard Kimble
    Dr. Richard Kimble is the wrongfully accused surgeon protagonist of "The Fugitive," best known from Harrison Ford’s portrayal in the 1993 film adaptation.
  • C. Peter Masterson
    Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
  • D. Walter Skinner
    Walter Skinner is a high-ranking FBI assistant director who oversees and often clashes with Agents Mulder and Scully in the science fiction television series The X-Files.
  • E. Bruce Dern as Asa Watts
    Bruce Dern as Asa Watts is the actor’s memorable portrayal of the ruthless cattle thief and primary antagonist in the 1972 Western film "The Cowboys."
  • 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_69c0082bb19c8190823a4facd3cba79b completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c023e678c48190824d35d276985311 completed March 22, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c05a4f2bfc8190bc56c094f9ae9ce1 completed March 22, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c05bb6a334819094cff84f16f5285c completed March 22, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c05c7a03948190b38e2dfcb04fd93e completed March 22, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:44 p.m.