Triple

T9825604
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Newman E238645 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object There Was a Crooked Man...
"There Was a Crooked Man..." is a 1970 Western black comedy film co-written by David Newman that subverts traditional genre tropes through its darkly humorous take on crime and morality in the Old West.
E823725 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: There Was a Crooked Man... | Statement: [David Newman, notableWork, There Was a Crooked Man...]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: There Was a Crooked Man...
Context triple: [David Newman, notableWork, There Was a Crooked Man...]
  • A. There Was a Crooked Man
    "There Was a Crooked Man" is a British comedy film featuring Norman Wisdom in one of his characteristic comic roles.
  • B. Day of the Badman
    Day of the Badman is a 1958 American Western film starring Fred MacMurray as a principled judge facing down outlaws to uphold justice in a frontier town.
  • C. Crooks
    Crooks is the African American stable hand in John Steinbeck's novella "Of Mice and Men," whose isolation and experiences of racism highlight the themes of loneliness and social injustice.
  • D. Crooks
    Crooks is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including figures in politics, sports, and the arts.
  • E. The Man from Painted Post
    The Man from Painted Post is a 1917 American silent Western film starring Douglas Fairbanks as a cowboy who becomes entangled in romance and adventure.
  • 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: There Was a Crooked Man...
Triple: [David Newman, notableWork, There Was a Crooked Man...]
Generated description
"There Was a Crooked Man..." is a 1970 Western black comedy film co-written by David Newman that subverts traditional genre tropes through its darkly humorous take on crime and morality in the Old West.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: There Was a Crooked Man...
Target entity description: "There Was a Crooked Man..." is a 1970 Western black comedy film co-written by David Newman that subverts traditional genre tropes through its darkly humorous take on crime and morality in the Old West.
  • A. There Was a Crooked Man
    "There Was a Crooked Man" is a British comedy film featuring Norman Wisdom in one of his characteristic comic roles.
  • B. Day of the Badman
    Day of the Badman is a 1958 American Western film starring Fred MacMurray as a principled judge facing down outlaws to uphold justice in a frontier town.
  • C. Crooks
    Crooks is the African American stable hand in John Steinbeck's novella "Of Mice and Men," whose isolation and experiences of racism highlight the themes of loneliness and social injustice.
  • D. Crooks
    Crooks is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including figures in politics, sports, and the arts.
  • E. The Man from Painted Post
    The Man from Painted Post is a 1917 American silent Western film starring Douglas Fairbanks as a cowboy who becomes entangled in romance and adventure.
  • 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_69ca84e0dd1881909800765d1e21f735 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb3181c688190afea3b27ee392a30 completed April 2, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1cc84b0a481909000a0f04e3676d0 completed April 5, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1ccf59c68819082b4aa37e06d2aaf completed April 5, 2026, 2:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1d0d945d48190b56b7fd2ce568a13 completed April 5, 2026, 3:02 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:31 p.m.