Triple

T7442691
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steel (1997 film) E171792 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Kenneth Johnson
Kenneth Johnson is an American television producer, writer, and director best known for creating the original V miniseries and developing shows like The Incredible Hulk and Alien Nation.
E690846 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: Kenneth Johnson | Statement: [Steel (1997 film), director, Kenneth Johnson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Johnson
Context triple: [Steel (1997 film), director, Kenneth Johnson]
  • A. Karl Johnson
    Karl Johnson is a British actor known for his extensive work in theatre, film, and television, including prominent stage roles with major companies such as the National Theatre.
  • B. Ken Johnson
    Ken Johnson was a Major League Baseball pitcher best remembered for throwing a rare nine-inning no-hitter in 1964 that he nevertheless lost while playing for the Houston franchise.
  • C. Kenneth Spring
    Kenneth Spring is a British theatre director and educator best known as the founder of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.
  • D. Kenneth Smith
    Kenneth Smith is an American former professional basketball player and longtime NBA analyst best known for his championship-winning tenure with the Houston Rockets and his work on TNT’s "Inside the NBA."
  • E. Kenneth Anderson
    Kenneth Anderson was a British Army general best known for leading Allied ground forces in the North African campaign during World War II, including the early phases of the Tunisian campaign.
  • 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: Kenneth Johnson
Triple: [Steel (1997 film), director, Kenneth Johnson]
Generated description
Kenneth Johnson is an American television producer, writer, and director best known for creating the original V miniseries and developing shows like The Incredible Hulk and Alien Nation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Johnson
Target entity description: Kenneth Johnson is an American television producer, writer, and director best known for creating the original V miniseries and developing shows like The Incredible Hulk and Alien Nation.
  • A. Karl Johnson
    Karl Johnson is a British actor known for his extensive work in theatre, film, and television, including prominent stage roles with major companies such as the National Theatre.
  • B. Ken Johnson
    Ken Johnson was a Major League Baseball pitcher best remembered for throwing a rare nine-inning no-hitter in 1964 that he nevertheless lost while playing for the Houston franchise.
  • C. Kenneth Spring
    Kenneth Spring is a British theatre director and educator best known as the founder of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.
  • D. Kenneth Smith
    Kenneth Smith is an American former professional basketball player and longtime NBA analyst best known for his championship-winning tenure with the Houston Rockets and his work on TNT’s "Inside the NBA."
  • E. Kenneth Anderson
    Kenneth Anderson was a British Army general best known for leading Allied ground forces in the North African campaign during World War II, including the early phases of the Tunisian campaign.
  • 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_69c68a65402881908f7869368eb746fb completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f36d0fbc81908cb7cfe99f80de08 completed March 27, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c9567fd22881909bd8f4972144be22 completed March 29, 2026, 4:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c95717609c8190973fd6fac4e6311b completed March 29, 2026, 4:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c9573a86808190b9b5dfce95dd74fb completed March 29, 2026, 4:45 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:13 p.m.