Triple

T1201340
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Captains Courageous (1937 film) E25787 entity
Predicate starredActor P5563 FINISHED
Object Melvyn Douglas
Melvyn Douglas was an acclaimed American actor known for his sophisticated screen presence and award-winning performances in both classic Hollywood films and later character roles.
 E169971 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: Melvyn Douglas | Statement: [Captains Courageous (1937 film), starredActor, Melvyn Douglas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Melvyn Douglas
Context triple: [Captains Courageous (1937 film), starredActor, Melvyn Douglas]
  • A. Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres was an American actor best known for his starring role in the anti-war film "All Quiet on the Western Front" and for his long-running portrayal of Dr. Kildare.
  • B. Victor Mature
    Victor Mature was an American film actor known for his rugged leading-man roles in 1940s and 1950s Hollywood epics and adventure films.
  • C. Edward G. Robinson
    Edward G. Robinson was a Romanian-American actor renowned for his intense portrayals of gangsters and complex characters in classic Hollywood films such as "Little Caesar."
  • D. Kirk Douglas
    Kirk Douglas was a legendary American actor and producer, renowned for his intense performances in classic films such as "Spartacus" and "Paths of Glory."
  • E. Richard Dix
    Richard Dix was an American leading man of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his rugged roles in dramas and Westerns and for earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
  • 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: Melvyn Douglas
Triple: [Captains Courageous (1937 film), starredActor, Melvyn Douglas]
Generated description
Melvyn Douglas was an acclaimed American actor known for his sophisticated screen presence and award-winning performances in both classic Hollywood films and later character roles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Melvyn Douglas
Target entity description: Melvyn Douglas was an acclaimed American actor known for his sophisticated screen presence and award-winning performances in both classic Hollywood films and later character roles.
  • A. Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres was an American actor best known for his starring role in the anti-war film "All Quiet on the Western Front" and for his long-running portrayal of Dr. Kildare.
  • B. Victor Mature
    Victor Mature was an American film actor known for his rugged leading-man roles in 1940s and 1950s Hollywood epics and adventure films.
  • C. Edward G. Robinson
    Edward G. Robinson was a Romanian-American actor renowned for his intense portrayals of gangsters and complex characters in classic Hollywood films such as "Little Caesar."
  • D. Kirk Douglas
    Kirk Douglas was a legendary American actor and producer, renowned for his intense performances in classic films such as "Spartacus" and "Paths of Glory."
  • E. Richard Dix
    Richard Dix was an American leading man of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his rugged roles in dramas and Westerns and for earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
  • 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_69a4bd9fece4819089a6a2d61e61fa2e completed March 1, 2026, 10:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad1c90c95081908af02d73f7d762ee completed March 8, 2026, 6:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad1ccce8548190bd65a3a380e6d2b7 completed March 8, 2026, 6:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad1d4782708190bd472726d42a5cd5 completed March 8, 2026, 6:55 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.