Triple

T6162022
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Intern E137463 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Ben Whittaker
Ben Whittaker is the retired widower who becomes a senior intern at an online fashion startup in the film "The Intern," serving as the movie’s warm, wise, and stabilizing central figure.
E574337 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: Ben Whittaker | Statement: [The Intern, mainCharacter, Ben Whittaker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Whittaker
Context triple: [The Intern, mainCharacter, Ben Whittaker]
  • A. Roy Whittaker
    Roy Whittaker is a notable individual who shares the Whittaker surname and has achieved sufficient recognition to be specifically identified as a distinguished bearer of that name.
  • B. Alex Wharton
    Alex Wharton is a musician best known for his past role in the instrumental rock/metal band The Fucking Champs.
  • C. Guy Weadick
    Guy Weadick was an American-born cowboy, promoter, and showman best known for creating the Calgary Stampede and helping popularize rodeo culture in Canada.
  • D. Dave Wilkins
    Dave Wilkins is a musician best known as a member of the Australian rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, which was fronted by actor Russell Crowe.
  • E. Justin Wilkes
    Justin Wilkes is a television producer and creator known for developing the series "Mars" and other documentary and scripted projects.
  • 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: Ben Whittaker
Triple: [The Intern, mainCharacter, Ben Whittaker]
Generated description
Ben Whittaker is the retired widower who becomes a senior intern at an online fashion startup in the film "The Intern," serving as the movie’s warm, wise, and stabilizing central figure.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Whittaker
Target entity description: Ben Whittaker is the retired widower who becomes a senior intern at an online fashion startup in the film "The Intern," serving as the movie’s warm, wise, and stabilizing central figure.
  • A. Roy Whittaker
    Roy Whittaker is a notable individual who shares the Whittaker surname and has achieved sufficient recognition to be specifically identified as a distinguished bearer of that name.
  • B. Alex Wharton
    Alex Wharton is a musician best known for his past role in the instrumental rock/metal band The Fucking Champs.
  • C. Guy Weadick
    Guy Weadick was an American-born cowboy, promoter, and showman best known for creating the Calgary Stampede and helping popularize rodeo culture in Canada.
  • D. Dave Wilkins
    Dave Wilkins is a musician best known as a member of the Australian rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, which was fronted by actor Russell Crowe.
  • E. Justin Wilkes
    Justin Wilkes is a television producer and creator known for developing the series "Mars" and other documentary and scripted projects.
  • 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_69c008a54fc88190b6ce4416490ca79d completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c05d371484819090c18b62b095b49e completed March 22, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c14199f024819089af02b1c0eebfad completed March 23, 2026, 1:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1467ef4d48190b714823935318c0a completed March 23, 2026, 1:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c146f59d9881908fdc6c0137f0ead7 completed March 23, 2026, 1:58 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:17 p.m.