Triple

T8450712
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Big Short E199791 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Ben Rickert
Ben Rickert is a retired, risk-averse trader in the film "The Big Short" who reluctantly helps a small investment team profit from the impending collapse of the U.S. housing market.
 E737525 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: Ben Rickert | Statement: [The Big Short, mainCharacter, Ben Rickert]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ben Rickert
Context triple: [The Big Short, mainCharacter, Ben Rickert]
  • A. Trent Baalke
    Trent Baalke is an American football executive best known for his tenure as an NFL general manager, including leading front offices for multiple franchises.
  • B. Kyle Rote
    Kyle Rote was a former New York Giants star running back and wide receiver who became a prominent American sportscaster and television commentator.
  • C. Ryan Dusick
    Ryan Dusick is an American musician best known as the original drummer and a founding member of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
  • D. Brian Bockrath
    Brian Bockrath is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the post-apocalyptic horror drama series The Walking Dead: Dead City.
  • E. Brian Routh
    Brian Routh was a British performance artist and musician best known as one half of the avant-garde comedy and performance duo The Kipper Kids.
  • 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: Ben Rickert
Triple: [The Big Short, mainCharacter, Ben Rickert]
Generated description
Ben Rickert is a retired, risk-averse trader in the film "The Big Short" who reluctantly helps a small investment team profit from the impending collapse of the U.S. housing market.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ben Rickert
Target entity description: Ben Rickert is a retired, risk-averse trader in the film "The Big Short" who reluctantly helps a small investment team profit from the impending collapse of the U.S. housing market.
  • A. Trent Baalke
    Trent Baalke is an American football executive best known for his tenure as an NFL general manager, including leading front offices for multiple franchises.
  • B. Kyle Rote
    Kyle Rote was a former New York Giants star running back and wide receiver who became a prominent American sportscaster and television commentator.
  • C. Ryan Dusick
    Ryan Dusick is an American musician best known as the original drummer and a founding member of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
  • D. Brian Bockrath
    Brian Bockrath is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the post-apocalyptic horror drama series The Walking Dead: Dead City.
  • E. Brian Routh
    Brian Routh was a British performance artist and musician best known as one half of the avant-garde comedy and performance duo The Kipper Kids.
  • 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_69ca8318231881908fd1bc1c4d45d286 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe44815488190a912d63512e19af0 completed March 31, 2026, 3:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce39c11a488190b7775002e419eee7 completed April 2, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce3e82e57c81909b95577bd54616ff completed April 2, 2026, 10:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce3ef732748190a4c0beabc1cbfad7 completed April 2, 2026, 10:03 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:09 p.m.