Triple

T5713112
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Grumpy (1923 film) E125955 entity
Predicate starredActor P5563 FINISHED
Object Alec B. Francis
Alec B. Francis was a British-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his prolific work in Hollywood in the 1910s and 1920s.
 E568357 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: Alec B. Francis | Statement: [Grumpy (1923 film), starredActor, Alec B. Francis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alec B. Francis
Context triple: [Grumpy (1923 film), starredActor, Alec B. Francis]
  • A. David R. Francis
    David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Paul Bales
    Paul Bales is a film producer known for his work on low-budget genre movies, including the fantasy action film "Avengers Grimm."
  • C. Fraser Ayres
    Fraser Ayres is a British actor known for his work in television, film, and theatre, including roles in series such as The Bible (2013), The Smoking Room, and various stage productions.
  • D. Guy V. Lewis
    Guy V. Lewis was a Hall of Fame college basketball coach best known for building the University of Houston into a national powerhouse, including the famed Phi Slama Jama teams and multiple Final Four appearances.
  • E. M. Leo Elliott
    M. Leo Elliott was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century buildings in Tampa, Florida, including notable civic and social club structures.
  • 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: Alec B. Francis
Triple: [Grumpy (1923 film), starredActor, Alec B. Francis]
Generated description
Alec B. Francis was a British-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his prolific work in Hollywood in the 1910s and 1920s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alec B. Francis
Target entity description: Alec B. Francis was a British-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his prolific work in Hollywood in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • A. David R. Francis
    David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Paul Bales
    Paul Bales is a film producer known for his work on low-budget genre movies, including the fantasy action film "Avengers Grimm."
  • C. Fraser Ayres
    Fraser Ayres is a British actor known for his work in television, film, and theatre, including roles in series such as The Bible (2013), The Smoking Room, and various stage productions.
  • D. Guy V. Lewis
    Guy V. Lewis was a Hall of Fame college basketball coach best known for building the University of Houston into a national powerhouse, including the famed Phi Slama Jama teams and multiple Final Four appearances.
  • E. M. Leo Elliott
    M. Leo Elliott was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century buildings in Tampa, Florida, including notable civic and social club structures.
  • 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_69c0082d6fe48190b777fb383769e5c8 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c024b5205c8190aaab291a6e485ec1 completed March 22, 2026, 5:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c124e449d481909a6aa8e1c6494322 completed March 23, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1271ad9e481908d01ec9adc99a065 completed March 23, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c12787753c8190ab6c49ebd0dcac41 completed March 23, 2026, 11:44 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:46 p.m.