Triple
T9117356
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Signs |
E218752
|
entity |
| Predicate | character |
P662
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Merrill Hess |
E784346
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Merrill Hess | Statement: [Signs, character, Merrill Hess]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merrill Hess Context triple: [Signs, character, Merrill Hess]
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A.
Merrill Hess
chosen
Merrill Hess is a former minor-league baseball player and the younger brother of ex-priest Graham Hess in M. Night Shyamalan’s science-fiction thriller film "Signs."
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B.
Harold C. Mayer
Harold C. Mayer was an American financier best known as one of the co-founders of the investment bank Bear Stearns.
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C.
Clarence Fahnestock
Clarence Fahnestock was a New York physician and outdoorsman whose legacy is commemorated by the state park that bears his name.
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D.
Merrill De Maris
Merrill De Maris was an American screenwriter and story artist for Walt Disney Studios, best known for co-writing the screenplay for the landmark animated feature "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
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E.
Gerard Swope
Gerard Swope was an American industrialist best known as the influential president of General Electric who helped shape modern corporate management and labor relations in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca83dc94ac8190b9ef42684d36ff39 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cca8a5e2ac8190b602ef0c77deb2fa |
completed | April 1, 2026, 5:09 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d065c40d008190940309772b89a900 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 1:13 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:17 p.m.