Triple

T6126644
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Carnage E136610 entity
Predicate characterPlayedByChristophWaltz P1507 FINISHED
Object Alan Cowan
Alan Cowan is a tense, sharp-tongued New York lawyer and one of the four central parents in Roman Polanski’s film "Carnage," whose escalating argument drives the movie’s darkly comic conflict.
E582216 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Alan Cowan | Statement: [Carnage, characterPlayedByChristophWaltz, Alan Cowan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Cowan
Context triple: [Carnage, characterPlayedByChristophWaltz, Alan Cowan]
  • A. Denys Cowan
    Denys Cowan is an American comic book artist and producer best known for his influential work at DC Comics and as a founding figure behind the groundbreaking, Black-led publisher Milestone Media.
  • B. Alan Cruttenden
    Alan Cruttenden is a British phonetician and linguist known for his influential work on English pronunciation and intonation, including editing later editions of the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary.
  • C. Barry Cox
    Barry Cox is one of the central teenage protagonists in the 1997 slasher film "I Know What You Did Last Summer," known for his involvement in a deadly hit-and-run cover-up that drives the movie's plot.
  • D. George Cowan
    George Cowan was an American physical chemist and philanthropist best known for his work on the Manhattan Project and for founding the interdisciplinary research center, the Santa Fe Institute.
  • E. Douglas Slocombe
    Douglas Slocombe was a renowned British cinematographer celebrated for his work on numerous classic films, including major entries in the Indiana Jones series.
  • 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: Alan Cowan
Triple: [Carnage, characterPlayedByChristophWaltz, Alan Cowan]
Generated description
Alan Cowan is a tense, sharp-tongued New York lawyer and one of the four central parents in Roman Polanski’s film "Carnage," whose escalating argument drives the movie’s darkly comic conflict.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Cowan
Target entity description: Alan Cowan is a tense, sharp-tongued New York lawyer and one of the four central parents in Roman Polanski’s film "Carnage," whose escalating argument drives the movie’s darkly comic conflict.
  • A. Denys Cowan
    Denys Cowan is an American comic book artist and producer best known for his influential work at DC Comics and as a founding figure behind the groundbreaking, Black-led publisher Milestone Media.
  • B. Alan Cruttenden
    Alan Cruttenden is a British phonetician and linguist known for his influential work on English pronunciation and intonation, including editing later editions of the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary.
  • C. Barry Cox
    Barry Cox is one of the central teenage protagonists in the 1997 slasher film "I Know What You Did Last Summer," known for his involvement in a deadly hit-and-run cover-up that drives the movie's plot.
  • D. George Cowan
    George Cowan was an American physical chemist and philanthropist best known for his work on the Manhattan Project and for founding the interdisciplinary research center, the Santa Fe Institute.
  • E. Douglas Slocombe
    Douglas Slocombe was a renowned British cinematographer celebrated for his work on numerous classic films, including major entries in the Indiana Jones series.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: characterPlayedByChristophWaltz
Context triple: [Carnage, characterPlayedByChristophWaltz, Alan Cowan]
  • A. playedBy
    Indicates that a role, character, or performance is portrayed or executed by a specific person or agent.
  • B. accusedCharacterPortrayedBy
    Indicates that a particular actor or performer plays the role of the character who is accused within a given work.
  • C. portrayedBy chosen
    Indicates that one entity serves as the actor or performer who represents or plays the role of another entity in a work or medium.
  • D. characterPortrayedIs
    Indicates that one entity serves as the fictional or dramatic role that is depicted or played by another entity.
  • E. GameOfThronesRole
    Indicates that one entity plays, voices, or otherwise portrays a character in the television series "Game of Thrones" in relation to another entity.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69c008a0a37c81908e5b4f879158afb3 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c05c2a13a48190b80e11d58fc87c8a completed March 22, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c518df074481909d3990c92c11c05a completed March 26, 2026, 11:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c51d44f6888190bb395d40090d5b25 completed March 26, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c51dc68bfc81909c01f8cb85b49ea1 completed March 26, 2026, 11:51 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c049f9ab3c81909c8ab6466f6a2935 completed March 22, 2026, 7:58 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:15 p.m.