Triple

T6503838
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Glass Key (1942 film) E148955 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Douglas Spencer
Douglas Spencer was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and early television, often appearing in crime dramas and science fiction movies.
E600517 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: Douglas Spencer | Statement: [The Glass Key (1942 film), castMember, Douglas Spencer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglas Spencer
Context triple: [The Glass Key (1942 film), castMember, Douglas Spencer]
  • A. Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
    Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, was a British photographer and filmmaker who became a prominent member of the royal family through his marriage to Princess Margaret.
  • B. David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon
    David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, is a British furniture maker and former chairman of Christie's London who is the son of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones and a nephew of Queen Elizabeth II.
  • C. Roger Ashton-Griffiths
    Roger Ashton-Griffiths is a British character actor and director known for his roles in film and television, including appearances in period dramas and fantasy productions.
  • D. Earl Spencer
    Earl Spencer is a British peerage title historically held by members of the prominent Spencer family, an aristocratic lineage that includes figures such as Princess Diana.
  • E. Peter MacGregor-Scott
    Peter MacGregor-Scott was a British film and television producer best known for his work on major Hollywood action and franchise films in the 1980s and 1990s.
  • 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: Douglas Spencer
Triple: [The Glass Key (1942 film), castMember, Douglas Spencer]
Generated description
Douglas Spencer was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and early television, often appearing in crime dramas and science fiction movies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglas Spencer
Target entity description: Douglas Spencer was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and early television, often appearing in crime dramas and science fiction movies.
  • A. Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
    Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, was a British photographer and filmmaker who became a prominent member of the royal family through his marriage to Princess Margaret.
  • B. David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon
    David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, is a British furniture maker and former chairman of Christie's London who is the son of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones and a nephew of Queen Elizabeth II.
  • C. Roger Ashton-Griffiths
    Roger Ashton-Griffiths is a British character actor and director known for his roles in film and television, including appearances in period dramas and fantasy productions.
  • D. Earl Spencer
    Earl Spencer is a British peerage title historically held by members of the prominent Spencer family, an aristocratic lineage that includes figures such as Princess Diana.
  • E. Peter MacGregor-Scott
    Peter MacGregor-Scott was a British film and television producer best known for his work on major Hollywood action and franchise films in the 1980s and 1990s.
  • 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_69c6cb3c524481909d9c822e928dc821 completed March 27, 2026, 6:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6cd03c56c8190a0e7c69597ab8c83 completed March 27, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6cdfc23988190a4062abbcc312cb4 completed March 27, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:42 p.m.