Triple

T12340176
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Girl (2012 television film) E294201 entity
Predicate basedOnWorkBy P2806 FINISHED
Object Donald Spoto
Donald Spoto was an American biographer and theologian best known for his detailed and often revealing biographies of film directors and Hollywood stars, including Alfred Hitchcock.
E977919 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: Donald Spoto | Statement: [The Girl (2012 television film), basedOnWorkBy, Donald Spoto]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Spoto
Context triple: [The Girl (2012 television film), basedOnWorkBy, Donald Spoto]
  • A. Edward Selzer
    Edward Selzer was an American film producer best known for overseeing numerous classic Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons during the mid-20th century.
  • B. P. Adams Sitney
    P. Adams Sitney is an American film historian and critic best known for his pioneering scholarship on avant-garde cinema and his central role in shaping the study and preservation of experimental film.
  • C. Joseph Strick
    Joseph Strick was an American filmmaker best known for his bold, often controversial adaptations of major literary works, including James Joyce’s "Ulysses" and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."
  • D. Carl Friedberg
    Carl Friedberg was a German pianist and influential teacher renowned for his interpretations of the Romantic repertoire and his close artistic lineage to the Schumann and Brahms traditions.
  • E. Paul Hollander
    Paul Hollander was a Hungarian-American sociologist and author best known for his critical analyses of communism, political ideology, and intellectuals’ attitudes toward totalitarian regimes.
  • 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: Donald Spoto
Triple: [The Girl (2012 television film), basedOnWorkBy, Donald Spoto]
Generated description
Donald Spoto was an American biographer and theologian best known for his detailed and often revealing biographies of film directors and Hollywood stars, including Alfred Hitchcock.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Spoto
Target entity description: Donald Spoto was an American biographer and theologian best known for his detailed and often revealing biographies of film directors and Hollywood stars, including Alfred Hitchcock.
  • A. Edward Selzer
    Edward Selzer was an American film producer best known for overseeing numerous classic Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons during the mid-20th century.
  • B. P. Adams Sitney
    P. Adams Sitney is an American film historian and critic best known for his pioneering scholarship on avant-garde cinema and his central role in shaping the study and preservation of experimental film.
  • C. Joseph Strick
    Joseph Strick was an American filmmaker best known for his bold, often controversial adaptations of major literary works, including James Joyce’s "Ulysses" and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."
  • D. Carl Friedberg
    Carl Friedberg was a German pianist and influential teacher renowned for his interpretations of the Romantic repertoire and his close artistic lineage to the Schumann and Brahms traditions.
  • E. Paul Hollander
    Paul Hollander was a Hungarian-American sociologist and author best known for his critical analyses of communism, political ideology, and intellectuals’ attitudes toward totalitarian regimes.
  • 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_69d6ab6ccbec8190b09e2d357aa80064 completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d93f7758dc8190bbc6a9ad00b01dce completed April 10, 2026, 6:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f62aa7e33c819084e5673a5fb8cac7 completed May 2, 2026, 4:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f62c55aacc8190a0544306825bdfab completed May 2, 2026, 4:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f62d4d0b8881908aa6b67db7d14609 completed May 2, 2026, 4:58 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:53 p.m.