Triple

T13434622
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elephant (2003 film) E320197 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object John McFarland
John McFarland is a central student character in Gus Van Sant’s 2003 drama film "Elephant," which portrays an ordinary day at an American high school leading up to a tragic shooting.
E1050908 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: John McFarland | Statement: [Elephant (2003 film), mainCharacter, John McFarland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John McFarland
Context triple: [Elephant (2003 film), mainCharacter, John McFarland]
  • A. Michael McDowell
    Michael McDowell was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his Southern Gothic horror fiction and for writing the screenplay for the film "Beetlejuice."
  • B. Michael Mahoney
    Michael Mahoney is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the period crime drama miniseries "The Lizzie Borden Chronicles."
  • C. Brent Metcalf
    Brent Metcalf is an American freestyle and folkstyle wrestler best known for his dominant collegiate career at Iowa, where he became a multiple-time NCAA champion and one of the program’s most celebrated competitors.
  • D. John Ferrell
    John Ferrell was a photographer for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, contributing documentary images of American life during the Great Depression and World War II era.
  • E. Sean McKittrick
    Sean McKittrick is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed and genre-defining films such as "BlacKkKlansman," "Get Out," and "Donnie Darko."
  • 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: John McFarland
Triple: [Elephant (2003 film), mainCharacter, John McFarland]
Generated description
John McFarland is a central student character in Gus Van Sant’s 2003 drama film "Elephant," which portrays an ordinary day at an American high school leading up to a tragic shooting.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John McFarland
Target entity description: John McFarland is a central student character in Gus Van Sant’s 2003 drama film "Elephant," which portrays an ordinary day at an American high school leading up to a tragic shooting.
  • A. Michael McDowell
    Michael McDowell was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his Southern Gothic horror fiction and for writing the screenplay for the film "Beetlejuice."
  • B. Michael Mahoney
    Michael Mahoney is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the period crime drama miniseries "The Lizzie Borden Chronicles."
  • C. Brent Metcalf
    Brent Metcalf is an American freestyle and folkstyle wrestler best known for his dominant collegiate career at Iowa, where he became a multiple-time NCAA champion and one of the program’s most celebrated competitors.
  • D. John Ferrell
    John Ferrell was a photographer for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, contributing documentary images of American life during the Great Depression and World War II era.
  • E. Sean McKittrick
    Sean McKittrick is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed and genre-defining films such as "BlacKkKlansman," "Get Out," and "Donnie Darko."
  • 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_69d80761e6cc8190a90c844589998ecc completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaee29fec81908b07b4fca2922242 completed April 12, 2026, 2:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f77f7dcb8481909299419234dd30fe completed May 3, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f78043e4dc8190a996cc14d1ba6d0b completed May 3, 2026, 5:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f780d1a4c48190afc8060c6e065e00 completed May 3, 2026, 5:07 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:40 p.m.