Triple

T9802167
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Woo E237863 entity
Predicate directed P7373 FINISHED
Object The Crossing
The Crossing is a Chinese historical epic film that intertwines the lives of several characters against the backdrop of the 1949 sinking of the Taiping steamer during the Chinese Civil War.
E821784 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: The Crossing | Statement: [John Woo, directed, The Crossing]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Crossing
Context triple: [John Woo, directed, The Crossing]
  • A. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a historical novel by Howard Fast that dramatizes George Washington’s daring 1776 crossing of the Delaware River during the American Revolutionary War.
  • B. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring detective Harry Bosch teaming up with defense attorney Mickey Haller to investigate a complex murder case.
  • C. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a renowned video art installation by Bill Viola that explores themes of transformation and spirituality through slow-motion imagery of a figure engulfed alternately by fire and water.
  • D. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a science fiction television series centered on refugees from a war-torn future seeking asylum in a small American town.
  • E. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a 1994 novel by Cormac McCarthy, the second book in his Border Trilogy, following a young cowboy’s harrowing journeys between the United States and Mexico.
  • 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: The Crossing
Triple: [John Woo, directed, The Crossing]
Generated description
The Crossing is a Chinese historical epic film that intertwines the lives of several characters against the backdrop of the 1949 sinking of the Taiping steamer during the Chinese Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Crossing
Target entity description: The Crossing is a Chinese historical epic film that intertwines the lives of several characters against the backdrop of the 1949 sinking of the Taiping steamer during the Chinese Civil War.
  • A. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a 1994 novel by Cormac McCarthy, the second book in his Border Trilogy, following a young cowboy’s harrowing journeys between the United States and Mexico.
  • B. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring detective Harry Bosch teaming up with defense attorney Mickey Haller to investigate a complex murder case.
  • C. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a renowned video art installation by Bill Viola that explores themes of transformation and spirituality through slow-motion imagery of a figure engulfed alternately by fire and water.
  • D. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a historical novel by Howard Fast that dramatizes George Washington’s daring 1776 crossing of the Delaware River during the American Revolutionary War.
  • E. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a science fiction television series centered on refugees from a war-torn future seeking asylum in a small American town.
  • 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.