Triple

T8244047
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Lawnmower Man (1992 film) E192805 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Brett Leonard
Brett Leonard is an American film director and screenwriter best known for pioneering early CGI and virtual reality themes in movies such as "The Lawnmower Man."
 E721775 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: Brett Leonard | Statement: [The Lawnmower Man (1992 film), director, Brett Leonard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Brett Leonard
Context triple: [The Lawnmower Man (1992 film), director, Brett Leonard]
  • A. Michael Cuesta
    Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
  • B. Roger Spottiswoode
    Roger Spottiswoode is a British-Canadian film director and editor known for directing a range of Hollywood features, including the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies."
  • C. Martin Brest
    Martin Brest is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for popular hits like "Beverly Hills Cop," "Midnight Run," and "Scent of a Woman."
  • D. Phillip Noyce
    Phillip Noyce is an acclaimed Australian film director known for both influential early work in the Australian New Wave and successful Hollywood thrillers such as "Patriot Games" and "The Bone Collector."
  • E. Lee M. Russell
    Lee M. Russell was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Mississippi in the early 20th century.
  • 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: Brett Leonard
Triple: [The Lawnmower Man (1992 film), director, Brett Leonard]
Generated description
Brett Leonard is an American film director and screenwriter best known for pioneering early CGI and virtual reality themes in movies such as "The Lawnmower Man."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Brett Leonard
Target entity description: Brett Leonard is an American film director and screenwriter best known for pioneering early CGI and virtual reality themes in movies such as "The Lawnmower Man."
  • A. Michael Cuesta
    Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
  • B. Roger Spottiswoode
    Roger Spottiswoode is a British-Canadian film director and editor known for directing a range of Hollywood features, including the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies."
  • C. Martin Brest
    Martin Brest is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for popular hits like "Beverly Hills Cop," "Midnight Run," and "Scent of a Woman."
  • D. Phillip Noyce
    Phillip Noyce is an acclaimed Australian film director known for both influential early work in the Australian New Wave and successful Hollywood thrillers such as "Patriot Games" and "The Bone Collector."
  • E. Lee M. Russell
    Lee M. Russell was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Mississippi in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69ca82de7b8c81908d8106f8a53cff9b completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb78711f5081909c2f357334491a07 completed March 31, 2026, 7:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd3521bfb48190935fe82a1f768adc completed April 1, 2026, 3:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd37a5d3bc8190801b1b0f09eee462 completed April 1, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd4edfda788190a29f5d9a7a61f6ed completed April 1, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:47 p.m.