Triple

T6503833
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Glass Key (1942 film) E148955 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Russell Hicks
Russell Hicks was an American character actor known for his prolific appearances in Hollywood films from the 1930s and 1940s, often portraying authority figures such as lawyers, politicians, and military officers.
 E634972 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: Russell Hicks | Statement: [The Glass Key (1942 film), castMember, Russell Hicks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Russell Hicks
Context triple: [The Glass Key (1942 film), castMember, Russell Hicks]
  • A. Douglas Pike
    Douglas Pike was a prominent American diplomat and scholar known for his influential analyses of the Viet Cong and the Vietnam War.
  • B. Richard Pearce
    Richard Pearce is a voice actor known for his work in animated films, including providing a character voice in Pixar's "A Bug's Life."
  • C. Alan Howarth
    Alan Howarth is an American composer and sound designer best known for co-creating and expanding the iconic synthesizer-driven scores of many John Carpenter horror and science fiction films.
  • D. William Russell
    William Russell was a British actor best known for his role as schoolteacher Ian Chesterton, one of the original companions in the long-running television series Doctor Who.
  • E. Ted Oakes
    Ted Oakes is a wildlife television producer and filmmaker known for creating high-profile nature documentaries.
  • 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: Russell Hicks
Triple: [The Glass Key (1942 film), castMember, Russell Hicks]
Generated description
Russell Hicks was an American character actor known for his prolific appearances in Hollywood films from the 1930s and 1940s, often portraying authority figures such as lawyers, politicians, and military officers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Russell Hicks
Target entity description: Russell Hicks was an American character actor known for his prolific appearances in Hollywood films from the 1930s and 1940s, often portraying authority figures such as lawyers, politicians, and military officers.
  • A. Douglas Pike
    Douglas Pike was a prominent American diplomat and scholar known for his influential analyses of the Viet Cong and the Vietnam War.
  • B. Richard Pearce
    Richard Pearce is a voice actor known for his work in animated films, including providing a character voice in Pixar's "A Bug's Life."
  • C. Alan Howarth
    Alan Howarth is an American composer and sound designer best known for co-creating and expanding the iconic synthesizer-driven scores of many John Carpenter horror and science fiction films.
  • D. William Russell
    William Russell was a British actor best known for his role as schoolteacher Ian Chesterton, one of the original companions in the long-running television series Doctor Who.
  • E. Ted Oakes
    Ted Oakes is a wildlife television producer and filmmaker known for creating high-profile nature documentaries.
  • 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_69c687e9ad288190bae5bcac9c8ac855 completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c69965c8448190b9eb0c50711dd44f completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c769ddf9e08190b64216fa37d6ca19 completed March 28, 2026, 5:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c76a83a97c8190a2b158d2b21c4c39 completed March 28, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c76aefadf08190bc20b34991af9461 completed March 28, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:42 p.m.