Triple

T110026
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad E2226 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Norman Ferguson
Norman Ferguson was an American animator and film director at Walt Disney Studios, best known for his influential work on classic Disney features during the Golden Age of animation.
E70797 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: Norman Ferguson | Statement: [The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, director, Norman Ferguson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman Ferguson
Context triple: [The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, director, Norman Ferguson]
  • A. Norman Winslow
    Norman Winslow is an architect best known for his role in designing Portland, Oregon’s iconic public space, Pioneer Courthouse Square.
  • B. Lloyd Bryce
    Lloyd Bryce was an American editor, politician, and diplomat best known for his influential leadership of the North American Review in the late 19th century.
  • C. Wilfred J. McNeil
    Wilfred J. McNeil was an American government official who served in senior defense-related administrative roles, including leadership of the U.S. Munitions Board during the mid-20th century.
  • D. Joseph E. Sheffield
    Joseph E. Sheffield was a 19th-century American railroad executive and philanthropist whose major donations to Yale University led to the establishment of the Sheffield Scientific School.
  • E. Herbert L. Anderson
    Herbert L. Anderson was an American experimental physicist who played a crucial role in the development of the first nuclear chain reaction and early atomic research during the Manhattan Project.
  • 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: Norman Ferguson
Triple: [The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, director, Norman Ferguson]
Generated description
Norman Ferguson was an American animator and film director at Walt Disney Studios, best known for his influential work on classic Disney features during the Golden Age of animation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman Ferguson
Target entity description: Norman Ferguson was an American animator and film director at Walt Disney Studios, best known for his influential work on classic Disney features during the Golden Age of animation.
  • A. Norman Winslow
    Norman Winslow is an architect best known for his role in designing Portland, Oregon’s iconic public space, Pioneer Courthouse Square.
  • B. Lloyd Bryce
    Lloyd Bryce was an American editor, politician, and diplomat best known for his influential leadership of the North American Review in the late 19th century.
  • C. Wilfred J. McNeil
    Wilfred J. McNeil was an American government official who served in senior defense-related administrative roles, including leadership of the U.S. Munitions Board during the mid-20th century.
  • D. Joseph E. Sheffield
    Joseph E. Sheffield was a 19th-century American railroad executive and philanthropist whose major donations to Yale University led to the establishment of the Sheffield Scientific School.
  • E. Herbert L. Anderson
    Herbert L. Anderson was an American experimental physicist who played a crucial role in the development of the first nuclear chain reaction and early atomic research during the Manhattan Project.
  • 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_69a24fcdaeb48190a2d796677e4b3281 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a256ce54b48190a3337f5f45d82859 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4ed2f315c8190a6cb00ce703b00b1 completed March 2, 2026, 1:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4ee8ff8908190a8d59f3bca394faf completed March 2, 2026, 1:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4eee1013c8190b1adce3ad9c6e053 completed March 2, 2026, 1:58 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:20 a.m.