Triple

T12869418
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Still Alice E307807 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Alice Howland
Alice Howland is a linguistics professor and mother whose early-onset Alzheimer's disease and its impact on her identity and family are central to the story in "Still Alice."
E1007749 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: Alice Howland | Statement: [Still Alice, mainCharacter, Alice Howland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alice Howland
Context triple: [Still Alice, mainCharacter, Alice Howland]
  • A. Maria Bennett
    Maria Bennett is the main character portrayed by Naomi Watts in the 2012 disaster drama film "The Impossible," which is based on a true story of a family's survival during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
  • B. Virginia Quinn
    Virginia Quinn, better known as Ginny Newhart, was an American television personality and the longtime wife of comedian Bob Newhart.
  • C. Patricia Quinn
    Patricia Quinn is an Irish actress best known for her cult-classic role as Magenta in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
  • D. Shirley Sullivan
    Shirley Sullivan is best known as the mother of American actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
  • E. Olivia Pope
    Olivia Pope is the fiercely intelligent and influential crisis management expert at the center of the television series "Scandal," known for her political savvy, complex moral code, and iconic leadership style in Washington, D.C.
  • 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: Alice Howland
Triple: [Still Alice, mainCharacter, Alice Howland]
Generated description
Alice Howland is a linguistics professor and mother whose early-onset Alzheimer's disease and its impact on her identity and family are central to the story in "Still Alice."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alice Howland
Target entity description: Alice Howland is a linguistics professor and mother whose early-onset Alzheimer's disease and its impact on her identity and family are central to the story in "Still Alice."
  • A. Maria Bennett
    Maria Bennett is the main character portrayed by Naomi Watts in the 2012 disaster drama film "The Impossible," which is based on a true story of a family's survival during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
  • B. Virginia Quinn
    Virginia Quinn, better known as Ginny Newhart, was an American television personality and the longtime wife of comedian Bob Newhart.
  • C. Patricia Quinn
    Patricia Quinn is an Irish actress best known for her cult-classic role as Magenta in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
  • D. Shirley Sullivan
    Shirley Sullivan is best known as the mother of American actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
  • E. Olivia Pope
    Olivia Pope is the fiercely intelligent and influential crisis management expert at the center of the television series "Scandal," known for her political savvy, complex moral code, and iconic leadership style in Washington, D.C.
  • 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_69d7bdf69bc48190af6c2621f28ca351 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9708f510c8190b4c64dc340420e85 completed April 10, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f69bb26eb08190912d0b44c345bf41 completed May 3, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f69df1032881909255e506ddfd9c9f completed May 3, 2026, 12:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f69ea645a0819095edc112b9ed9bff completed May 3, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:38 p.m.