Triple

T9835591
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject It Comes at Night E239091 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Trey Edward Shults
Trey Edward Shults is an American filmmaker known for his intense, character-driven dramas and psychological horror films such as "Krisha," "It Comes at Night," and "Waves."
E825322 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: Trey Edward Shults | Statement: [It Comes at Night, director, Trey Edward Shults]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Trey Edward Shults
Context triple: [It Comes at Night, director, Trey Edward Shults]
  • A. Sean Durkin
    Sean Durkin is a British-Canadian filmmaker best known for writing and directing the psychological drama "Martha Marcy May Marlene" and for his work on character-driven, atmospheric films and television.
  • B. Alex Ross Perry
    Alex Ross Perry is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his sharp, character-driven independent films such as "Listen Up Philip" and "Queen of Earth."
  • C. Sean Baker
    Sean Baker is an American filmmaker known for his naturalistic, character-driven independent films that often focus on marginalized communities, including the critically acclaimed drama "The Florida Project."
  • D. Antonio Campos
    Antonio Campos is an American filmmaker known for his dark, character-driven dramas and thrillers, including works like "The Devil All the Time" and "Christine."
  • E. Destin Daniel Cretton
    Destin Daniel Cretton is an American filmmaker known for directing character-driven dramas like "Short Term 12" and major studio projects such as Marvel's "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings."
  • 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: Trey Edward Shults
Triple: [It Comes at Night, director, Trey Edward Shults]
Generated description
Trey Edward Shults is an American filmmaker known for his intense, character-driven dramas and psychological horror films such as "Krisha," "It Comes at Night," and "Waves."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Trey Edward Shults
Target entity description: Trey Edward Shults is an American filmmaker known for his intense, character-driven dramas and psychological horror films such as "Krisha," "It Comes at Night," and "Waves."
  • A. Sean Durkin
    Sean Durkin is a British-Canadian filmmaker best known for writing and directing the psychological drama "Martha Marcy May Marlene" and for his work on character-driven, atmospheric films and television.
  • B. Alex Ross Perry
    Alex Ross Perry is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his sharp, character-driven independent films such as "Listen Up Philip" and "Queen of Earth."
  • C. Sean Baker
    Sean Baker is an American filmmaker known for his naturalistic, character-driven independent films that often focus on marginalized communities, including the critically acclaimed drama "The Florida Project."
  • D. Antonio Campos
    Antonio Campos is an American filmmaker known for his dark, character-driven dramas and thrillers, including works like "The Devil All the Time" and "Christine."
  • E. Destin Daniel Cretton
    Destin Daniel Cretton is an American filmmaker known for directing character-driven dramas like "Short Term 12" and major studio projects such as Marvel's "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings."
  • 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_69ca84e314108190978324a4bdb959f8 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb339aa1c8190901d8e660cef49c5 completed April 2, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1d5c8f1a48190a4e7b6cda8ee88d5 completed April 5, 2026, 3:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1d6a385ac8190b5dd11adfbb7578d completed April 5, 2026, 3:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1d74e7a148190a9470745bfd7ad42 completed April 5, 2026, 3:30 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:33 p.m.