Triple

T6271118
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Cotton Club E140536 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object William Kennedy
William Kennedy is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist and screenwriter best known for his Albany Cycle of novels and his work on films such as "The Cotton Club."
E579174 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 Kennedy | Statement: [The Cotton Club, screenwriter, William Kennedy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Kennedy
Context triple: [The Cotton Club, screenwriter, William Kennedy]
  • A. Thomas Fitzgerald
    Thomas Fitzgerald was an American politician and Boston city councilor best known as the father of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and grandfather of President John F. Kennedy.
  • B. James Kennedy
    James Kennedy was a 15th-century Scottish bishop and statesman who served as Bishop of St Andrews and played a key role in the political and ecclesiastical life of medieval Scotland.
  • C. John Fitzgerald
    John Fitzgerald is the founder of the global financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald.
  • D. John Fitzgerald
    John Fitzgerald is a historical frontiersman and fur trapper best known for abandoning the grievously injured Hugh Glass during an 1823 expedition, an event later popularized in books and films such as "The Revenant."
  • E. Joseph Jerome McGinnity
    Joseph Jerome McGinnity was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher of the early 20th century, famed for his durability and nickname "Iron Man" for frequently pitching both games of doubleheaders.
  • 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 Kennedy
Triple: [The Cotton Club, screenwriter, William Kennedy]
Generated description
William Kennedy is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist and screenwriter best known for his Albany Cycle of novels and his work on films such as "The Cotton Club."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Kennedy
Target entity description: William Kennedy is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist and screenwriter best known for his Albany Cycle of novels and his work on films such as "The Cotton Club."
  • A. Thomas Fitzgerald
    Thomas Fitzgerald was an American politician and Boston city councilor best known as the father of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and grandfather of President John F. Kennedy.
  • B. James Kennedy
    James Kennedy was a 15th-century Scottish bishop and statesman who served as Bishop of St Andrews and played a key role in the political and ecclesiastical life of medieval Scotland.
  • C. John Fitzgerald
    John Fitzgerald is the founder of the global financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald.
  • D. John Fitzgerald
    John Fitzgerald is a historical frontiersman and fur trapper best known for abandoning the grievously injured Hugh Glass during an 1823 expedition, an event later popularized in books and films such as "The Revenant."
  • E. Joseph Jerome McGinnity
    Joseph Jerome McGinnity was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher of the early 20th century, famed for his durability and nickname "Iron Man" for frequently pitching both games of doubleheaders.
  • 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_69c008cabc4081909723e2547c9d6cc0 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c063bb340c8190ab81b249cefa91ca completed March 22, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c2446629248190945f0f4f4a103bbd completed March 24, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c246b507a08190ab5423c54e2b0eb5 completed March 24, 2026, 8:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c2471ce99c8190af2305937dfacc9c completed March 24, 2026, 8:11 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:25 p.m.