Triple
T8244506
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sometimes They Come Back (1991 film) |
E192816
|
entity |
| Predicate | starred |
P5563
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Sanderson |
E678346
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Sanderson | Statement: [Sometimes They Come Back (1991 film), starred, William Sanderson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sanderson Context triple: [Sometimes They Come Back (1991 film), starred, William Sanderson]
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A.
William Sanderson
chosen
William Sanderson is an American character actor known for his distinctive roles in films and television series such as Blade Runner, Newhart, and Deadwood.
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B.
John Ballantyne
John Ballantyne is the amnesiac patient and central male protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 psychological thriller "Spellbound."
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C.
Lennox Sanderson
Lennox Sanderson is the wealthy, deceitful antagonist in the silent film "Way Down East," whose actions drive much of the drama and tragedy in the story.
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D.
William Chalmers
William Chalmers was a Swedish merchant and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.
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E.
Thomas Rutherford
Thomas Rutherford was an early settler and landowner in Napa Valley whose name was given to the community of Rutherford, California.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69cd352b1a288190bd13ef84bef7fa1c |
completed | April 1, 2026, 3:09 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:47 p.m.