Triple

T1200180
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Black Stallion E25761 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Carroll Ballard
Carroll Ballard is an American film director best known for his visually lyrical, nature-focused films such as "The Black Stallion" and "Never Cry Wolf."
E135991 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: Carroll Ballard | Statement: [The Black Stallion, director, Carroll Ballard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carroll Ballard
Context triple: [The Black Stallion, director, Carroll Ballard]
  • A. Leslie Harter
    Leslie Harter is a film producer known for her work in Hollywood and for being married to director Robert Zemeckis.
  • B. Warren Oates
    Warren Oates was an American character actor known for his rugged, intense performances in films such as "The Wild Bunch," "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia," and numerous other Westerns and crime dramas of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. Mel Daniels
    Mel Daniels was an American professional basketball center best known as a dominant force in the ABA, where he won multiple MVP awards and championships with the Indiana Pacers.
  • D. Paul Cushing Child
    Paul Cushing Child was an American civil servant, artist, and gourmand best known as the supportive husband of famed chef and television personality Julia Child.
  • E. Jed Harris
    Jed Harris was a prominent American theatrical producer and director known for staging influential Broadway productions in the mid-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: Carroll Ballard
Triple: [The Black Stallion, director, Carroll Ballard]
Generated description
Carroll Ballard is an American film director best known for his visually lyrical, nature-focused films such as "The Black Stallion" and "Never Cry Wolf."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carroll Ballard
Target entity description: Carroll Ballard is an American film director best known for his visually lyrical, nature-focused films such as "The Black Stallion" and "Never Cry Wolf."
  • A. Leslie Harter
    Leslie Harter is a film producer known for her work in Hollywood and for being married to director Robert Zemeckis.
  • B. Warren Oates
    Warren Oates was an American character actor known for his rugged, intense performances in films such as "The Wild Bunch," "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia," and numerous other Westerns and crime dramas of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. Mel Daniels
    Mel Daniels was an American professional basketball center best known as a dominant force in the ABA, where he won multiple MVP awards and championships with the Indiana Pacers.
  • D. Paul Cushing Child
    Paul Cushing Child was an American civil servant, artist, and gourmand best known as the supportive husband of famed chef and television personality Julia Child.
  • E. Jed Harris
    Jed Harris was a prominent American theatrical producer and director known for staging influential Broadway productions in the mid-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_69a49429f5ec8190a6a205eb0ae81e5e completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bd9ec3488190afe35af54efae5e9 completed March 1, 2026, 10:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac765c58d48190bbd460663d965097 completed March 7, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac76f20f308190be3c831eb2d59763 completed March 7, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac775a43d881908f12026a38fba2c8 completed March 7, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.