Triple

T8685116
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Christmas in Connecticut E206137 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Lionel Houser
Lionel Houser was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly romantic comedies and light-hearted dramas.
 E765979 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: Lionel Houser | Statement: [Christmas in Connecticut, screenwriter, Lionel Houser]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lionel Houser
Context triple: [Christmas in Connecticut, screenwriter, Lionel Houser]
  • A. Lionel Burnett
    Lionel Burnett was one of the sons of renowned British-American novelist Frances Hodgson Burnett, best known as the author of "The Secret Garden" and "A Little Princess."
  • B. Lionel Wilson
    Lionel Wilson was an American voice actor best known for originating the role of Eustace Bagge in the animated television series "Courage the Cowardly Dog."
  • C. Lionel Wilson
    Lionel Wilson was a pioneering American politician and jurist best known as the first African American mayor of Oakland, California.
  • D. Lionel Newman
    Lionel Newman was an American composer and conductor best known for his work in film and television music, including a long association with 20th Century Fox.
  • E. Lionel Bender
    Lionel Bender was an American linguist known for his extensive research and classification work on African languages, particularly those in the Nilo-Saharan and Afroasiatic families.
  • 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: Lionel Houser
Triple: [Christmas in Connecticut, screenwriter, Lionel Houser]
Generated description
Lionel Houser was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly romantic comedies and light-hearted dramas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lionel Houser
Target entity description: Lionel Houser was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly romantic comedies and light-hearted dramas.
  • A. Lionel Burnett
    Lionel Burnett was one of the sons of renowned British-American novelist Frances Hodgson Burnett, best known as the author of "The Secret Garden" and "A Little Princess."
  • B. Lionel Wilson
    Lionel Wilson was an American voice actor best known for originating the role of Eustace Bagge in the animated television series "Courage the Cowardly Dog."
  • C. Lionel Wilson
    Lionel Wilson was a pioneering American politician and jurist best known as the first African American mayor of Oakland, California.
  • D. Lionel Newman
    Lionel Newman was an American composer and conductor best known for his work in film and television music, including a long association with 20th Century Fox.
  • E. Lionel Bender
    Lionel Bender was an American linguist known for his extensive research and classification work on African languages, particularly those in the Nilo-Saharan and Afroasiatic families.
  • 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_69ca835379688190aa06b9d98e684d58 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc4aeae740819099093906ccc5f640 completed March 31, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfb9f8cce48190b02f3237be91590e completed April 3, 2026, 1 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfbab0b0048190a0ad002787dddffa completed April 3, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfbb4f1f6881908ec9e419d175d044 completed April 3, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:32 p.m.