Triple

T6503900
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Power and the Glory (1933 film) E148957 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object William K. Howard
William K. Howard was an American film director of the silent and early sound eras, known for his sophisticated visual style and work across drama, comedy, and crime films in Hollywood.
E740270 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 K. Howard | Statement: [The Power and the Glory (1933 film), director, William K. Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William K. Howard
Context triple: [The Power and the Glory (1933 film), director, William K. Howard]
  • A. George W. Howard
    George W. Howard was a prominent American labor leader and organizer associated with the American Railway Union during the late 19th century.
  • B. Oliver H. Payne
    Oliver H. Payne was an American industrialist and financier who became a prominent early partner and major shareholder in John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil empire.
  • C. Benjamin C. Howard
    Benjamin C. Howard was a 19th-century American lawyer and court reporter best known for serving as the Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court, where he compiled and published the official Howard Reports.
  • D. Thomas F. Wilson
    Thomas F. Wilson is an American actor and comedian best known for playing bully Biff Tannen and his relatives across the Back to the Future film trilogy.
  • E. Floyd E. Kellam
    Floyd E. Kellam was a prominent local figure in Virginia Beach, likely a civic leader or educator, for whom Kellam High School was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
  • 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 K. Howard
Triple: [The Power and the Glory (1933 film), director, William K. Howard]
Generated description
William K. Howard was an American film director of the silent and early sound eras, known for his sophisticated visual style and work across drama, comedy, and crime films in Hollywood.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William K. Howard
Target entity description: William K. Howard was an American film director of the silent and early sound eras, known for his sophisticated visual style and work across drama, comedy, and crime films in Hollywood.
  • A. George W. Howard
    George W. Howard was a prominent American labor leader and organizer associated with the American Railway Union during the late 19th century.
  • B. Oliver H. Payne
    Oliver H. Payne was an American industrialist and financier who became a prominent early partner and major shareholder in John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil empire.
  • C. Benjamin C. Howard
    Benjamin C. Howard was a 19th-century American lawyer and court reporter best known for serving as the Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court, where he compiled and published the official Howard Reports.
  • D. Thomas F. Wilson
    Thomas F. Wilson is an American actor and comedian best known for playing bully Biff Tannen and his relatives across the Back to the Future film trilogy.
  • E. Floyd E. Kellam
    Floyd E. Kellam was a prominent local figure in Virginia Beach, likely a civic leader or educator, for whom Kellam High School was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
  • 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_69ce6c7d795081909fc85cc99e11c971 completed April 2, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce6e66c5e48190badcc5e075892006 completed April 2, 2026, 1:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce6f0cc434819089e78d24dfee5361 completed April 2, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:42 p.m.