Triple

T12108406
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Von Ryan's Express E288360 entity
Predicate authorOfSourceWork P2353 FINISHED
Object David Westheimer
David Westheimer was an American novelist best known for writing the World War II adventure novel that inspired the film "Von Ryan's Express."
 E1011314 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: David Westheimer | Statement: [Von Ryan's Express, authorOfSourceWork, David Westheimer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Westheimer
Context triple: [Von Ryan's Express, authorOfSourceWork, David Westheimer]
  • A. Sidney Ehrlich
    Sidney Ehrlich is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Ehrlich surname.
  • B. David H. Steinberg
    David H. Steinberg is a television writer and producer best known for his work on American sitcoms, including creating the series "3rd Rock from the Sun."
  • C. Henry Wertheim
    Henry Wertheim is a member of the Wertheim family, known primarily in relation to his brother, the American investment banker and philanthropist Maurice Wertheim.
  • D. Donald A. Wollheim
    Donald A. Wollheim was an influential American science fiction editor, publisher, and author, best known for founding DAW Books and helping to shape modern science fiction and fantasy publishing.
  • E. Peter J. Weinberger
    Peter J. Weinberger is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming languages and tools at Bell Labs, including co-creating the AWK programming language.
  • 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: David Westheimer
Triple: [Von Ryan's Express, authorOfSourceWork, David Westheimer]
Generated description
David Westheimer was an American novelist best known for writing the World War II adventure novel that inspired the film "Von Ryan's Express."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Westheimer
Target entity description: David Westheimer was an American novelist best known for writing the World War II adventure novel that inspired the film "Von Ryan's Express."
  • A. Sidney Ehrlich
    Sidney Ehrlich is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Ehrlich surname.
  • B. David H. Steinberg
    David H. Steinberg is a television writer and producer best known for his work on American sitcoms, including creating the series "3rd Rock from the Sun."
  • C. Henry Wertheim
    Henry Wertheim is a member of the Wertheim family, known primarily in relation to his brother, the American investment banker and philanthropist Maurice Wertheim.
  • D. Donald A. Wollheim
    Donald A. Wollheim was an influential American science fiction editor, publisher, and author, best known for founding DAW Books and helping to shape modern science fiction and fantasy publishing.
  • E. Peter J. Weinberger
    Peter J. Weinberger is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming languages and tools at Bell Labs, including co-creating the AWK programming language.
  • 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_69d6ab4a5c448190a110d1273314b21a completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d915632dc48190863e0239cef37e24 completed April 10, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6af3b91288190ab2df6103bfa5a91 completed May 3, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b115720481908796955032043530 completed May 3, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6b1ea3d288190875888be8356da48 completed May 3, 2026, 2:24 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:49 p.m.