Triple

T863810
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dont Look Back E18655 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object D. A. Pennebaker
D. A. Pennebaker was a pioneering American documentary filmmaker known for his influential cinéma vérité style in music and political documentaries.
 E101929 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: D. A. Pennebaker | Statement: [Dont Look Back, director, D. A. Pennebaker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: D. A. Pennebaker
Context triple: [Dont Look Back, director, D. A. Pennebaker]
  • A. Haskell Wexler
    Haskell Wexler was an acclaimed American cinematographer and filmmaker known for his innovative visual style and influential work on both narrative features and political documentaries.
  • B. Robert A. Altman
    Robert A. Altman was an American lawyer and businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of video game publisher ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks.
  • C. Robert Altman
    Robert Altman was an influential American filmmaker known for his innovative ensemble casts, overlapping dialogue, and satirical, genre-defying films such as "M*A*S*H," "Nashville," and "Short Cuts."
  • D. Abraham Zapruder
    Abraham Zapruder was an American clothing manufacturer and amateur filmmaker best known for capturing the most famous home-movie footage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.
  • E. Gregg Toland
    Gregg Toland was a pioneering American cinematographer renowned for his innovative deep-focus and lighting techniques, most famously showcased in Orson Welles's film "Citizen Kane."
  • 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: D. A. Pennebaker
Triple: [Dont Look Back, director, D. A. Pennebaker]
Generated description
D. A. Pennebaker was a pioneering American documentary filmmaker known for his influential cinéma vérité style in music and political documentaries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: D. A. Pennebaker
Target entity description: D. A. Pennebaker was a pioneering American documentary filmmaker known for his influential cinéma vérité style in music and political documentaries.
  • A. Haskell Wexler
    Haskell Wexler was an acclaimed American cinematographer and filmmaker known for his innovative visual style and influential work on both narrative features and political documentaries.
  • B. Robert A. Altman
    Robert A. Altman was an American lawyer and businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of video game publisher ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks.
  • C. Robert Altman
    Robert Altman was an influential American filmmaker known for his innovative ensemble casts, overlapping dialogue, and satirical, genre-defying films such as "M*A*S*H," "Nashville," and "Short Cuts."
  • D. Abraham Zapruder
    Abraham Zapruder was an American clothing manufacturer and amateur filmmaker best known for capturing the most famous home-movie footage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.
  • E. Gregg Toland
    Gregg Toland was a pioneering American cinematographer renowned for his innovative deep-focus and lighting techniques, most famously showcased in Orson Welles's film "Citizen Kane."
  • 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_69a4938ce8688190a24bdfef82ba7d21 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac6956488190a5644cdd5b55684f completed March 1, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7a3c5c15c8190a91eb3746007ebf5 completed March 4, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7a613db0881908c14569257c53bb0 completed March 4, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7a66cc1108190a072cc7d9be2756c completed March 4, 2026, 3:26 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.