Triple

T6563604
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject We Were Soldiers E153845 entity
Predicate characterPortrayed P1507 FINISHED
Object Bruce Crandall
Bruce Crandall is a retired U.S. Army helicopter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his heroic actions during the Battle of Ia Drang in the Vietnam War.
 E603026 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: Bruce Crandall | Statement: [We Were Soldiers, characterPortrayed, Bruce Crandall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bruce Crandall
Context triple: [We Were Soldiers, characterPortrayed, Bruce Crandall]
  • A. John Whitesell
    John Whitesell is an American television and film director and producer known for his work on various TV series and feature comedies.
  • B. Gary Cederstrom
    Gary Cederstrom is a longtime Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous postseason games and served as crew chief in multiple World Series.
  • C. Don Brautigam
    Don Brautigam was an American illustrator best known for his striking, realistic cover art for horror and thriller novels, including works by Stephen King.
  • D. Steve Cochran
    Steve Cochran was an American film and television actor best known for his tough-guy roles in crime dramas and film noir during the 1940s and 1950s.
  • E. Jeffrey L. Kimball
    Jeffrey L. Kimball is an American cinematographer known for his work on high-profile action films, including "The Expendables" and several collaborations with director Tony Scott.
  • 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: Bruce Crandall
Triple: [We Were Soldiers, characterPortrayed, Bruce Crandall]
Generated description
Bruce Crandall is a retired U.S. Army helicopter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his heroic actions during the Battle of Ia Drang in the Vietnam War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bruce Crandall
Target entity description: Bruce Crandall is a retired U.S. Army helicopter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his heroic actions during the Battle of Ia Drang in the Vietnam War.
  • A. John Whitesell
    John Whitesell is an American television and film director and producer known for his work on various TV series and feature comedies.
  • B. Gary Cederstrom
    Gary Cederstrom is a longtime Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous postseason games and served as crew chief in multiple World Series.
  • C. Don Brautigam
    Don Brautigam was an American illustrator best known for his striking, realistic cover art for horror and thriller novels, including works by Stephen King.
  • D. Steve Cochran
    Steve Cochran was an American film and television actor best known for his tough-guy roles in crime dramas and film noir during the 1940s and 1950s.
  • E. Jeffrey L. Kimball
    Jeffrey L. Kimball is an American cinematographer known for his work on high-profile action films, including "The Expendables" and several collaborations with director Tony Scott.
  • 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_69c6880cb35881909b763eb0125236b9 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ae3a40488190892d20ca0d60b937 completed March 27, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6d55fa1bc81908f2929e835051532 completed March 27, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6d676e43081909bf2a9cceff0b9b3 completed March 27, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6d843bad081909ebb887f32ea4195 completed March 27, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:52 p.m.