Triple

T11464632
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Crowd E271748 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Esther Ralston
Esther Ralston was a prominent American silent film actress of the 1920s, known for her leading roles in major studio productions and her transition into early sound films.
 E929602 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: Esther Ralston | Statement: [The Crowd, starring, Esther Ralston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Esther Ralston
Context triple: [The Crowd, starring, Esther Ralston]
  • A. Esther Smith
    Esther Smith is the central teenage daughter in the classic 1944 MGM musical film "Meet Me in St. Louis," famously portrayed by Judy Garland.
  • B. Esther Dale
    Esther Dale was an American character actress known for her numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films and early television from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • C. Esther Blodgett
    Esther Blodgett is the aspiring singer and actress who becomes a Hollywood star under the stage name Vicki Lester in the 1954 film "A Star Is Born."
  • D. Esther Jane Williams
    Esther Jane Williams was an American competitive swimmer turned Hollywood film star, best known for her elaborate aquatic musical films in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • E. Esther Harvey
    Esther Harvey was the wife of renowned American Broadway baritone and actor Alfred Drake.
  • 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: Esther Ralston
Triple: [The Crowd, starring, Esther Ralston]
Generated description
Esther Ralston was a prominent American silent film actress of the 1920s, known for her leading roles in major studio productions and her transition into early sound films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Esther Ralston
Target entity description: Esther Ralston was a prominent American silent film actress of the 1920s, known for her leading roles in major studio productions and her transition into early sound films.
  • A. Esther Smith
    Esther Smith is the central teenage daughter in the classic 1944 MGM musical film "Meet Me in St. Louis," famously portrayed by Judy Garland.
  • B. Esther Dale
    Esther Dale was an American character actress known for her numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films and early television from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • C. Esther Blodgett
    Esther Blodgett is the aspiring singer and actress who becomes a Hollywood star under the stage name Vicki Lester in the 1954 film "A Star Is Born."
  • D. Esther Jane Williams
    Esther Jane Williams was an American competitive swimmer turned Hollywood film star, best known for her elaborate aquatic musical films in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • E. Esther Harvey
    Esther Harvey was the wife of renowned American Broadway baritone and actor Alfred Drake.
  • 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_69d6aae0c8d881908a5a360c0be3242e completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d822f488248190b9f603cd31c72174 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e6248d0db881909999049356f53ff6 completed April 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e62cf224f881908badcdab6aea1aef completed April 20, 2026, 1:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e663ffedfc8190a2b51995c62d1e6b completed April 20, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.