Triple

T9802417
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chow Yun-fat E237870 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Once a Thief (TV series)
Once a Thief is a Hong Kong action-comedy television series, adapted from John Woo’s film of the same name, that follows a trio of art-thief friends navigating heists, loyalty, and betrayal.
 E821801 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: Once a Thief (TV series) | Statement: [Chow Yun-fat, notableWork, Once a Thief (TV series)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Once a Thief (TV series)
Context triple: [Chow Yun-fat, notableWork, Once a Thief (TV series)]
  • A. Thief (TV series)
    Thief is a short-lived 2006 FX drama miniseries starring Andre Braugher as the leader of a professional heist crew whose criminal life collides with his family responsibilities.
  • B. Once a Thief
    Once a Thief is a 1965 American crime drama film directed by Ralph Nelson, centered on an ex-convict struggling to go straight while being pulled back into the criminal underworld.
  • C. Bandit Television
    Bandit Television is a British television production company known for creating scripted drama and comedy series.
  • D. It Takes a Thief
    It Takes a Thief is a late-1960s American television series about a suave professional thief who is recruited by the U.S. government for secret missions, starring Robert Wagner in the lead role.
  • E. Third Watch
    Third Watch is an American television drama series that follows the lives of New York City police officers, firefighters, and paramedics working the 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. shift.
  • 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: Once a Thief (TV series)
Triple: [Chow Yun-fat, notableWork, Once a Thief (TV series)]
Generated description
Once a Thief is a Hong Kong action-comedy television series, adapted from John Woo’s film of the same name, that follows a trio of art-thief friends navigating heists, loyalty, and betrayal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Once a Thief (TV series)
Target entity description: Once a Thief is a Hong Kong action-comedy television series, adapted from John Woo’s film of the same name, that follows a trio of art-thief friends navigating heists, loyalty, and betrayal.
  • A. Thief (TV series)
    Thief is a short-lived 2006 FX drama miniseries starring Andre Braugher as the leader of a professional heist crew whose criminal life collides with his family responsibilities.
  • B. Once a Thief
    Once a Thief is a 1965 American crime drama film directed by Ralph Nelson, centered on an ex-convict struggling to go straight while being pulled back into the criminal underworld.
  • C. Bandit Television
    Bandit Television is a British television production company known for creating scripted drama and comedy series.
  • D. It Takes a Thief
    It Takes a Thief is a late-1960s American television series about a suave professional thief who is recruited by the U.S. government for secret missions, starring Robert Wagner in the lead role.
  • E. Third Watch
    Third Watch is an American television drama series that follows the lives of New York City police officers, firefighters, and paramedics working the 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. shift.
  • 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.