Triple

T9015358
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nightcrawler E215580 entity
Predicate portrays P264 FINISHED
Object Bill Paxton as Joe Loder
Bill Paxton as Joe Loder is a veteran freelance news cameraman and rival stringer to Jake Gyllenhaal’s character in the neo-noir thriller film "Nightcrawler."
E772798 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: Bill Paxton as Joe Loder | Statement: [Nightcrawler, portrays, Bill Paxton as Joe Loder]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Paxton as Joe Loder
Context triple: [Nightcrawler, portrays, Bill Paxton as Joe Loder]
  • A. Bill Paxton as Dale "Hurricane" Dixon
    Bill Paxton as Dale "Hurricane" Dixon is a small-town Arkansas police chief whose mix of eager ambition, moral conflict, and vulnerability makes him the emotional center of the crime thriller One False Move.
  • B. Kevin Costner as Charley Waite
    Kevin Costner as Charley Waite is the stoic, morally driven former gunslinger and cattleman he portrays in the 2003 Western film "Open Range."
  • C. Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey
    Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey is the harried, increasingly frazzled air traffic control supervisor whose escalating declarations about what he’s “picked the wrong week” to quit provide one of the running gags in the disaster-movie spoof Airplane!.
  • D. Tommy Lee Jones as Gene McClary
    Tommy Lee Jones as Gene McClary is the portrayal of a seasoned, morally conflicted corporate executive grappling with loyalty, layoffs, and personal integrity in the drama film "The Company Men."
  • E. Bruce Dern as Freeman Lowell
    Bruce Dern as Freeman Lowell is the intense, idealistic botanist-astronaut protagonist of the 1972 science fiction film "Silent Running," known for his solitary struggle to preserve Earth's last remaining forests in space.
  • 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: Bill Paxton as Joe Loder
Triple: [Nightcrawler, portrays, Bill Paxton as Joe Loder]
Generated description
Bill Paxton as Joe Loder is a veteran freelance news cameraman and rival stringer to Jake Gyllenhaal’s character in the neo-noir thriller film "Nightcrawler."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Paxton as Joe Loder
Target entity description: Bill Paxton as Joe Loder is a veteran freelance news cameraman and rival stringer to Jake Gyllenhaal’s character in the neo-noir thriller film "Nightcrawler."
  • A. Bill Paxton as Dale "Hurricane" Dixon
    Bill Paxton as Dale "Hurricane" Dixon is a small-town Arkansas police chief whose mix of eager ambition, moral conflict, and vulnerability makes him the emotional center of the crime thriller One False Move.
  • B. Kevin Costner as Charley Waite
    Kevin Costner as Charley Waite is the stoic, morally driven former gunslinger and cattleman he portrays in the 2003 Western film "Open Range."
  • C. Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey
    Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey is the harried, increasingly frazzled air traffic control supervisor whose escalating declarations about what he’s “picked the wrong week” to quit provide one of the running gags in the disaster-movie spoof Airplane!.
  • D. Tommy Lee Jones as Gene McClary
    Tommy Lee Jones as Gene McClary is the portrayal of a seasoned, morally conflicted corporate executive grappling with loyalty, layoffs, and personal integrity in the drama film "The Company Men."
  • E. Bruce Dern as Freeman Lowell
    Bruce Dern as Freeman Lowell is the intense, idealistic botanist-astronaut protagonist of the 1972 science fiction film "Silent Running," known for his solitary struggle to preserve Earth's last remaining forests in space.
  • 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_69ca83a38aa88190bf1bb80c4548b5e2 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc69fc0e4c819080b60456375f94cd completed April 1, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfdba4bfd481908a5f33d39b8e7dd5 completed April 3, 2026, 3:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfdc5b230881908057cc868e44ea44 completed April 3, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfdcfc28288190b849b3f0216a7e9a completed April 3, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:06 p.m.