Triple

T9987032
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herbie film series E196793 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object Jim Douglas
Jim Douglas is the adventurous racing driver protagonist who becomes the human partner of the sentient Volkswagen Beetle Herbie in Disney’s comedy film series.
E854708 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: Jim Douglas | Statement: [Herbie film series, notableCharacter, Jim Douglas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jim Douglas
Context triple: [Herbie film series, notableCharacter, Jim Douglas]
  • A. Jim Douglas
    Jim Douglas is an American Republican politician who served as the 80th Governor of Vermont from 2003 to 2011.
  • B. J. Douglas Brown
    J. Douglas Brown was an American economist and academic who played a key role in shaping U.S. Social Security policy during the New Deal era.
  • C. Howard G. Cunningham
    Howard G. Cunningham, better known as Ward Cunningham, is an American computer programmer best known for creating the first wiki and contributing to agile software development practices.
  • D. Fred Haines
    Fred Haines was an American screenwriter and director best known for co-writing the 1967 film adaptation of James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
  • E. James K. Boyce
    James K. Boyce is an American economist known for his work on environmental economics, inequality, and the political economy of development.
  • 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: Jim Douglas
Triple: [Herbie film series, notableCharacter, Jim Douglas]
Generated description
Jim Douglas is the adventurous racing driver protagonist who becomes the human partner of the sentient Volkswagen Beetle Herbie in Disney’s comedy film series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jim Douglas
Target entity description: Jim Douglas is the adventurous racing driver protagonist who becomes the human partner of the sentient Volkswagen Beetle Herbie in Disney’s comedy film series.
  • A. Jim Douglas
    Jim Douglas is an American Republican politician who served as the 80th Governor of Vermont from 2003 to 2011.
  • B. J. Douglas Brown
    J. Douglas Brown was an American economist and academic who played a key role in shaping U.S. Social Security policy during the New Deal era.
  • C. Howard G. Cunningham
    Howard G. Cunningham, better known as Ward Cunningham, is an American computer programmer best known for creating the first wiki and contributing to agile software development practices.
  • D. Fred Haines
    Fred Haines was an American screenwriter and director best known for co-writing the 1967 film adaptation of James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
  • E. James K. Boyce
    James K. Boyce is an American economist known for his work on environmental economics, inequality, and the political economy of development.
  • 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_69ca82f1678c819093d06320a05f16a4 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdc79c8b80819091dc16ac8fd0c720 completed April 2, 2026, 1:34 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d71c3fa4b88190be4ce7b64335a99f completed April 9, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d71f76e3cc8190b21a5fe8825caa2b completed April 9, 2026, 3:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d7319938ec8190a4a1a5f09832e3e3 completed April 9, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:50 p.m.