Triple

T9913441
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Pyx E185803 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object John Buell
John Buell was a Canadian novelist and screenwriter known for adapting his own literary work, including the novel that became the film "The Pyx."
E918766 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: John Buell | Statement: [The Pyx, screenwriter, John Buell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Buell
Context triple: [The Pyx, screenwriter, John Buell]
  • A. William LeBaron
    William LeBaron was an American film producer and studio executive active during the early 20th century, known for overseeing numerous Hollywood productions in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • B. Nathaniel Parker Willis
    Nathaniel Parker Willis was a prominent 19th-century American author and editor known for his poetry, travel writing, and influential role in the New York literary scene.
  • C. John H. Dimond
    John H. Dimond was a prominent Alaskan jurist and early state leader who played a key role in shaping Alaska’s legal and constitutional foundations.
  • D. Samuel L. M. Barlow
    Samuel L. M. Barlow is a notable individual who shares the surname Barlow and is recognized as a distinguished bearer of that name.
  • E. Augustus Johnston
    Augustus Johnston was a colonial-era official and attorney in Rhode Island, notably serving as the colony’s attorney general around the time of the American 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: John Buell
Triple: [The Pyx, screenwriter, John Buell]
Generated description
John Buell was a Canadian novelist and screenwriter known for adapting his own literary work, including the novel that became the film "The Pyx."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Buell
Target entity description: John Buell was a Canadian novelist and screenwriter known for adapting his own literary work, including the novel that became the film "The Pyx."
  • A. William LeBaron
    William LeBaron was an American film producer and studio executive active during the early 20th century, known for overseeing numerous Hollywood productions in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • B. Nathaniel Parker Willis
    Nathaniel Parker Willis was a prominent 19th-century American author and editor known for his poetry, travel writing, and influential role in the New York literary scene.
  • C. John H. Dimond
    John H. Dimond was a prominent Alaskan jurist and early state leader who played a key role in shaping Alaska’s legal and constitutional foundations.
  • D. Samuel L. M. Barlow
    Samuel L. M. Barlow is a notable individual who shares the surname Barlow and is recognized as a distinguished bearer of that name.
  • E. Augustus Johnston
    Augustus Johnston was a colonial-era official and attorney in Rhode Island, notably serving as the colony’s attorney general around the time of the American 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_69ca829b45f481909040f7b99a1976ed completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb53a300481909d917e487d8aab56 completed April 2, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e525100e108190b4f6949695c7156e completed April 19, 2026, 6:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e52a78951c8190923711067cf4e7e5 completed April 19, 2026, 7:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e5319b6ef0819096debabfb6ffbe70 completed April 19, 2026, 7:48 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:41 p.m.