Triple

T12683418
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject War Machine E303003 entity
Predicate basedOnAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object Michael Hastings
Michael Hastings was an American journalist and author best known for his hard-hitting political and war reporting, including the Rolling Stone article and subsequent book that inspired the film "War Machine."
 E997236 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: Michael Hastings | Statement: [War Machine, basedOnAuthor, Michael Hastings]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Michael Hastings
Context triple: [War Machine, basedOnAuthor, Michael Hastings]
  • A. Michael Hastings
    Michael Hastings was a British playwright and screenwriter known for his stage and television works, including adaptations of notable literary and historical subjects.
  • B. Chris Stevens
    Chris Stevens is a songwriter best known for co-writing the R&B ballad "You & I (Nobody in the World)."
  • C. Jeremy Scahill
    Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist and author known for his reporting on U.S. foreign policy, private military contractors, and national security issues.
  • D. Charles Jarrott
    Charles Jarrott was a British film and television director best known for his lavish historical dramas of the late 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. James D. Foley
    James D. Foley is a computer scientist best known for his pioneering work and influential textbooks in the field of computer graphics.
  • 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: Michael Hastings
Triple: [War Machine, basedOnAuthor, Michael Hastings]
Generated description
Michael Hastings was an American journalist and author best known for his hard-hitting political and war reporting, including the Rolling Stone article and subsequent book that inspired the film "War Machine."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Michael Hastings
Target entity description: Michael Hastings was an American journalist and author best known for his hard-hitting political and war reporting, including the Rolling Stone article and subsequent book that inspired the film "War Machine."
  • A. Michael Hastings
    Michael Hastings was a British playwright and screenwriter known for his stage and television works, including adaptations of notable literary and historical subjects.
  • B. Chris Stevens
    Chris Stevens is a songwriter best known for co-writing the R&B ballad "You & I (Nobody in the World)."
  • C. Jeremy Scahill
    Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist and author known for his reporting on U.S. foreign policy, private military contractors, and national security issues.
  • D. Charles Jarrott
    Charles Jarrott was a British film and television director best known for his lavish historical dramas of the late 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. James D. Foley
    James D. Foley is a computer scientist best known for his pioneering work and influential textbooks in the field of computer graphics.
  • 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_69d7bdee64a08190801c6d470aefd723 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d961d68358819095bdaab8adf1dcf0 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f671a733a48190b55d296573c86eaf completed May 2, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f67285019c8190be831d3f72cf121f completed May 2, 2026, 9:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f67323a724819092425cdb3a070b96 completed May 2, 2026, 9:56 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:21 p.m.