Triple

T7288259
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bad Company (1995 film) E163928 entity
Predicate writer P1360 FINISHED
Object Ross Thomas
Ross Thomas was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his witty, politically charged crime and espionage thrillers.
E653902 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: Ross Thomas | Statement: [Bad Company (1995 film), writer, Ross Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ross Thomas
Context triple: [Bad Company (1995 film), writer, Ross Thomas]
  • A. Ross Thomas
    Ross Thomas is an American actor best known for his role in the inspirational biographical film "Soul Surfer."
  • B. Irving Morrow
    Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
  • C. Irwin Shaw
    Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist best known for works such as "The Young Lions" and "Rich Man, Poor Man."
  • D. Floyd Dell
    Floyd Dell was an American writer, critic, and prominent figure in early 20th-century literary radicalism and bohemian culture.
  • E. Irving Wallace
    Irving Wallace was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his bestselling, often controversial, popular fiction exploring sexuality, power, and social issues.
  • 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: Ross Thomas
Triple: [Bad Company (1995 film), writer, Ross Thomas]
Generated description
Ross Thomas was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his witty, politically charged crime and espionage thrillers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ross Thomas
Target entity description: Ross Thomas was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his witty, politically charged crime and espionage thrillers.
  • A. Ross Thomas
    Ross Thomas is an American actor best known for his role in the inspirational biographical film "Soul Surfer."
  • B. Irving Morrow
    Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
  • C. Irwin Shaw
    Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist best known for works such as "The Young Lions" and "Rich Man, Poor Man."
  • D. Floyd Dell
    Floyd Dell was an American writer, critic, and prominent figure in early 20th-century literary radicalism and bohemian culture.
  • E. Irving Wallace
    Irving Wallace was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his bestselling, often controversial, popular fiction exploring sexuality, power, and social issues.
  • 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_69c6886093b88190a254b1ce6db8bae7 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6eb6a73fc8190ae5ce81fd3e46d87 completed March 27, 2026, 8:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7db4671e08190874d5e099e883509 completed March 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7dbc1ff0c8190bc7639a74a5d3af3 completed March 28, 2026, 1:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7dc6873a081908ea4e953430ec20b completed March 28, 2026, 1:49 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:59 p.m.