Triple

T8291339
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Easy Living E193903 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object John Ball Jr.
John Ball Jr. is a fictional character appearing in the film "Easy Living."
 E723472 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: John Ball Jr. | Statement: [Easy Living, featuresCharacter, John Ball Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Ball Jr.
Context triple: [Easy Living, featuresCharacter, John Ball Jr.]
  • A. John Ball
    John Ball was a prominent 19th-century Grand Rapids businessman and landowner whose donated property became the site of the John Ball Zoo.
  • B. John Ball
    John Ball was a radical English priest and social agitator known for his influential role in inspiring and leading the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.
  • C. John Ball
    John Ball was an American novelist best known for creating the character Virgil Tibbs in his crime novel "In the Heat of the Night," which was adapted into the acclaimed 1967 film.
  • D. Samuel Ball
    Samuel Ball is an actor known for his role in the horror film "The Pact."
  • E. Henry Baldwin
    Henry Baldwin was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 19th century, known for his often idiosyncratic and independent judicial opinions.
  • 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: John Ball Jr.
Triple: [Easy Living, featuresCharacter, John Ball Jr.]
Generated description
John Ball Jr. is a fictional character appearing in the film "Easy Living."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Ball Jr.
Target entity description: John Ball Jr. is a fictional character appearing in the film "Easy Living."
  • A. John Ball
    John Ball was a prominent 19th-century Grand Rapids businessman and landowner whose donated property became the site of the John Ball Zoo.
  • B. John Ball
    John Ball was a radical English priest and social agitator known for his influential role in inspiring and leading the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.
  • C. John Ball
    John Ball was an American novelist best known for creating the character Virgil Tibbs in his crime novel "In the Heat of the Night," which was adapted into the acclaimed 1967 film.
  • D. Samuel Ball
    Samuel Ball is an actor known for his role in the horror film "The Pact."
  • E. Henry Baldwin
    Henry Baldwin was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 19th century, known for his often idiosyncratic and independent judicial opinions.
  • 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_69ca82e32db481908b72f3804fa71152 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb7c9b65e0819083ddc82fb7c4a5f3 completed March 31, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd68916c5481908c42f259298b0670 completed April 1, 2026, 6:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd6d567c3c81908a7ec5bc13be529d completed April 1, 2026, 7:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd7e3e2f848190a22ad8739bb8e298 completed April 1, 2026, 8:21 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:52 p.m.