Triple

T9802130
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Woo E237863 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Ng Yu-sum
Ng Yu-sum is the birth name of John Woo, the influential Hong Kong film director known for his stylized action cinema and heroic bloodshed films.
 E821778 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: Ng Yu-sum | Statement: [John Woo, birthName, Ng Yu-sum]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ng Yu-sum
Context triple: [John Woo, birthName, Ng Yu-sum]
  • A. Chan Wing-yan
    Chan Wing-yan is the undercover police officer protagonist in the Hong Kong crime thriller series "Infernal Affairs," known for infiltrating the triads at great personal cost.
  • B. Chan Kwong-wing
    Chan Kwong-wing is a Hong Kong film composer best known for his scores for acclaimed movies such as the Infernal Affairs trilogy.
  • C. Yu Lik-wai
    Yu Lik-wai is a Hong Kong cinematographer and film director best known for his long-time collaboration with Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke on critically acclaimed art-house films.
  • D. Alex Tse
    Alex Tse is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing the film adaptation of the graphic novel "Watchmen."
  • E. Yeung Ku-wan
    Yeung Ku-wan was a late Qing dynasty Chinese revolutionary leader who played a key role in early anti-imperial movements and helped lay the groundwork for the 1911 Revolution.
  • 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: Ng Yu-sum
Triple: [John Woo, birthName, Ng Yu-sum]
Generated description
Ng Yu-sum is the birth name of John Woo, the influential Hong Kong film director known for his stylized action cinema and heroic bloodshed films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ng Yu-sum
Target entity description: Ng Yu-sum is the birth name of John Woo, the influential Hong Kong film director known for his stylized action cinema and heroic bloodshed films.
  • A. Chan Wing-yan
    Chan Wing-yan is the undercover police officer protagonist in the Hong Kong crime thriller series "Infernal Affairs," known for infiltrating the triads at great personal cost.
  • B. Chan Kwong-wing
    Chan Kwong-wing is a Hong Kong film composer best known for his scores for acclaimed movies such as the Infernal Affairs trilogy.
  • C. Yu Lik-wai
    Yu Lik-wai is a Hong Kong cinematographer and film director best known for his long-time collaboration with Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke on critically acclaimed art-house films.
  • D. Alex Tse
    Alex Tse is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing the film adaptation of the graphic novel "Watchmen."
  • E. Yeung Ku-wan
    Yeung Ku-wan was a late Qing dynasty Chinese revolutionary leader who played a key role in early anti-imperial movements and helped lay the groundwork for the 1911 Revolution.
  • 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_69ca84dd4608819097ff4ed00feca280 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cda62b41048190bcef70a7591830c6 completed April 1, 2026, 11:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1c44edac48190a44fdfb858d0dbba completed April 5, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1c50af000819087d643cc41a6fcc8 completed April 5, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1c5d39b288190b276371591a86399 completed April 5, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:29 p.m.