Triple

T8518736
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Masque of the Red Death (1989 film) E201641 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Alan Birkinshaw
Alan Birkinshaw is a British film director and producer known for his work in low-budget horror and exploitation cinema from the 1970s and 1980s.
 E739603 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: Alan Birkinshaw | Statement: [The Masque of the Red Death (1989 film), director, Alan Birkinshaw]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alan Birkinshaw
Context triple: [The Masque of the Red Death (1989 film), director, Alan Birkinshaw]
  • A. Robert I. Sutton
    Robert I. Sutton is an American organizational psychologist and Stanford professor best known for his research and popular books on workplace behavior, leadership, and evidence-based management.
  • B. Peter A. Dowling
    Peter A. Dowling is a screenwriter best known for his work on high-concept Hollywood thrillers, including the Jodie Foster–led film "Flightplan."
  • C. Thomas M. Davenport
    Thomas M. Davenport is an individual honored as the namesake of the University of Virginia’s baseball stadium, reflecting his significant contributions or support to the program.
  • D. Robert H. Waterman
    Robert H. Waterman was a 19th-century American sea captain and entrepreneur known for his role in the early development and founding of Fairfield, California.
  • E. James G. March
    James G. March was an influential organizational theorist and political scientist known for his work on decision-making, organizational behavior, and the "garbage can" model of organizational choice.
  • 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: Alan Birkinshaw
Triple: [The Masque of the Red Death (1989 film), director, Alan Birkinshaw]
Generated description
Alan Birkinshaw is a British film director and producer known for his work in low-budget horror and exploitation cinema from the 1970s and 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alan Birkinshaw
Target entity description: Alan Birkinshaw is a British film director and producer known for his work in low-budget horror and exploitation cinema from the 1970s and 1980s.
  • A. Robert I. Sutton
    Robert I. Sutton is an American organizational psychologist and Stanford professor best known for his research and popular books on workplace behavior, leadership, and evidence-based management.
  • B. Peter A. Dowling
    Peter A. Dowling is a screenwriter best known for his work on high-concept Hollywood thrillers, including the Jodie Foster–led film "Flightplan."
  • C. Thomas M. Davenport
    Thomas M. Davenport is an individual honored as the namesake of the University of Virginia’s baseball stadium, reflecting his significant contributions or support to the program.
  • D. Robert H. Waterman
    Robert H. Waterman was a 19th-century American sea captain and entrepreneur known for his role in the early development and founding of Fairfield, California.
  • E. James G. March
    James G. March was an influential organizational theorist and political scientist known for his work on decision-making, organizational behavior, and the "garbage can" model of organizational choice.
  • 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_69ca8321bb44819081b74df0b710276d completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe627de908190b463da0f26da4ffb completed March 31, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce4e6c93d081909da2a748b0fa6fd3 completed April 2, 2026, 11:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce4ffc30e08190b71e941d63d56015 completed April 2, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce54dc664081908ff63ec7f92834d7 completed April 2, 2026, 11:37 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:16 p.m.