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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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]
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A.
playedBy
Indicates that a role, character, or performance is portrayed or executed by a specific person or agent.
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B.
accusedCharacterPortrayedBy
Indicates that a particular actor or performer plays the role of the character who is accused within a given work.
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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.
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D.
characterPortrayedIs
Indicates that one entity serves as the fictional or dramatic role that is depicted or played by another entity.
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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.