Triple

T10236474
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Weeds E243476 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object John D. Hancock
John D. Hancock is an American film and television director best known for works such as the cult horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death" and various acclaimed TV movies.
E852936 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 D. Hancock | Statement: [Weeds, director, John D. Hancock]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John D. Hancock
Context triple: [Weeds, director, John D. Hancock]
  • A. Willard Bartlett
    Willard Bartlett was an American jurist who served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals in the early 20th century.
  • B. Joseph W. Martin Jr.
    Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
  • C. John May
    John May was a Chicago gangster and mechanic for Bugs Moran’s North Side Gang who was killed in the 1929 Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
  • D. John A. Whitaker
    John A. Whitaker was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Kentucky in the early 20th century.
  • E. John Murphy Farley
    John Murphy Farley was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of New York in the early 20th century.
  • 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 D. Hancock
Triple: [Weeds, director, John D. Hancock]
Generated description
John D. Hancock is an American film and television director best known for works such as the cult horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death" and various acclaimed TV movies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John D. Hancock
Target entity description: John D. Hancock is an American film and television director best known for works such as the cult horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death" and various acclaimed TV movies.
  • A. Willard Bartlett
    Willard Bartlett was an American jurist who served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals in the early 20th century.
  • B. Joseph W. Martin Jr.
    Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
  • C. John May
    John May was a Chicago gangster and mechanic for Bugs Moran’s North Side Gang who was killed in the 1929 Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
  • D. John A. Whitaker
    John A. Whitaker was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Kentucky in the early 20th century.
  • E. John Murphy Farley
    John Murphy Farley was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of New York in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69d381b0f97c819085c9b45799a5fb7c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4d219ab04819094a17c96bf1d65ae completed April 7, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d6f762732481909246dcb768074643 completed April 9, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d6fcaa16788190a4c7ef79a78febc6 completed April 9, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d6fd6d705c81908e469068937a79b3 completed April 9, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:22 a.m.