Triple

T1099135
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William C. deMille E24338 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object William Churchill de Mille
William Churchill de Mille was an American screenwriter and film director of the silent era, and the elder brother of famed director Cecil B. DeMille.
E24683 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: William Churchill de Mille | Statement: [William C. deMille, birthName, William Churchill de Mille]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Churchill de Mille
Context triple: [William C. deMille, birthName, William Churchill de Mille]
  • A. Robert Archibald Shaw
    Robert Archibald Shaw was a British actor and writer best known for his roles in films such as "Jaws," "From Russia with Love," and "The Sting."
  • B. Henry Churchill DeMille
    Henry Churchill DeMille was an American playwright and screenwriter of the late 19th century whose work helped lay early foundations for popular American theater.
  • C. M. G. Mellon
    M. G. Mellon was a distinguished chemist recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field, as evidenced by his receipt of the American Chemical Society’s highest honor, the Priestley Medal.
  • D. Robert Luce
    Robert Luce was an American politician and author who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts in the early 20th century.
  • E. Felix de Weldon
    Felix de Weldon was an Austrian-American sculptor best known for creating the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising statue and numerous other public monuments.
  • 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: William Churchill de Mille
Triple: [William C. deMille, birthName, William Churchill de Mille]
Generated description
William Churchill de Mille was an American screenwriter and film director of the silent era, and the elder brother of famed director Cecil B. DeMille.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Churchill de Mille
Target entity description: William Churchill de Mille was an American screenwriter and film director of the silent era, and the elder brother of famed director Cecil B. DeMille.
  • A. Robert Archibald Shaw
    Robert Archibald Shaw was a British actor and writer best known for his roles in films such as "Jaws," "From Russia with Love," and "The Sting."
  • B. Henry Churchill DeMille chosen
    Henry Churchill DeMille was an American playwright and screenwriter of the late 19th century whose work helped lay early foundations for popular American theater.
  • C. M. G. Mellon
    M. G. Mellon was a distinguished chemist recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field, as evidenced by his receipt of the American Chemical Society’s highest honor, the Priestley Medal.
  • D. Sylvester Churchill
    Sylvester Churchill was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and Inspector General noted for his service in the Mexican–American War, for whom Churchill County in Nevada is named.
  • E. Robert Luce
    Robert Luce was an American politician and author who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts in the early 20th century.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a4940542308190ac2a0b1f730b7cfc completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b9bd4eec819094fe09e13b7b07b8 completed March 1, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acce55b5748190b54b8205a735ae89 completed March 8, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69accf47541481909f2032cdf8e4272b completed March 8, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69accff8af488190a7580cf7c02ceed9 completed March 8, 2026, 1:25 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.