Triple

T11760467
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Pawnbroker E279641 entity
Predicate producer P490 FINISHED
Object Philip Langner
Philip Langner was an American theater and film producer best known for his work on influential mid-20th-century stage and screen productions.
 E985907 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: Philip Langner | Statement: [The Pawnbroker, producer, Philip Langner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Philip Langner
Context triple: [The Pawnbroker, producer, Philip Langner]
  • A. Paul Madvig
    Paul Madvig is the politically connected fixer and central protagonist of the 1942 film noir "The Glass Key," navigating corruption, loyalty, and murder in a tense urban underworld.
  • B. Fred Schuler
    Fred Schuler is a cinematographer best known for his work on films such as the 1980 comedy "Stir Crazy."
  • C. Frank Banholzer
    Frank Banholzer is a lesser-known relative of the German-American poet and theater critic Stefan Brecht, associated with the extended Brecht family.
  • D. Karl Schaefer
    Karl Schaefer is a television writer and producer best known for co-creating the zombie apocalypse series Z Nation and its Netflix prequel Black Summer.
  • E. William Diehl
    William Diehl was an American novelist best known for his gritty, suspenseful legal and crime thrillers.
  • 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: Philip Langner
Triple: [The Pawnbroker, producer, Philip Langner]
Generated description
Philip Langner was an American theater and film producer best known for his work on influential mid-20th-century stage and screen productions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Philip Langner
Target entity description: Philip Langner was an American theater and film producer best known for his work on influential mid-20th-century stage and screen productions.
  • A. Paul Madvig
    Paul Madvig is the politically connected fixer and central protagonist of the 1942 film noir "The Glass Key," navigating corruption, loyalty, and murder in a tense urban underworld.
  • B. Fred Schuler
    Fred Schuler is a cinematographer best known for his work on films such as the 1980 comedy "Stir Crazy."
  • C. Frank Banholzer
    Frank Banholzer is a lesser-known relative of the German-American poet and theater critic Stefan Brecht, associated with the extended Brecht family.
  • D. Karl Schaefer
    Karl Schaefer is a television writer and producer best known for co-creating the zombie apocalypse series Z Nation and its Netflix prequel Black Summer.
  • E. William Diehl
    William Diehl was an American novelist best known for his gritty, suspenseful legal and crime thrillers.
  • 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_69d6ab01038c819080714901502c84fc completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a52386708190b744746a2db37495 completed April 10, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f64b7cc0808190875d36fe978e4326 completed May 2, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f64c7c5d04819094fcbee0a4b5cbb4 completed May 2, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f64d653b988190b11d061f55ef7192 completed May 2, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:41 p.m.