Triple

T13831010
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Van Wilder E332397 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Walt Becker
Walt Becker is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for helming broad comedy films such as "Van Wilder" and "Wild Hogs."
E1064758 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: Walt Becker | Statement: [Van Wilder, director, Walt Becker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walt Becker
Context triple: [Van Wilder, director, Walt Becker]
  • A. Walter Becker
    Walter Becker was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer best known as the co-founder, guitarist, and bassist of the jazz-rock band Steely Dan.
  • B. Howe Gelb
    Howe Gelb is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the frontman of the influential indie rock band Giant Sand and a key figure in the Tucson desert rock scene.
  • C. Danny Kortchmar
    Danny Kortchmar is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer best known for his extensive work with major singer-songwriters of the 1970s and 1980s, including James Taylor, Carole King, and Don Henley.
  • D. Mike Garfath
    Mike Garfath is a cinematographer best known for his work on the British neo-noir film "Croupier."
  • E. Jeff Porcaro
    Jeff Porcaro was an American drummer, songwriter, and founding member of the rock band Toto, renowned as one of the most recorded and influential session drummers in popular music.
  • 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: Walt Becker
Triple: [Van Wilder, director, Walt Becker]
Generated description
Walt Becker is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for helming broad comedy films such as "Van Wilder" and "Wild Hogs."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walt Becker
Target entity description: Walt Becker is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for helming broad comedy films such as "Van Wilder" and "Wild Hogs."
  • A. Walter Becker
    Walter Becker was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer best known as the co-founder, guitarist, and bassist of the jazz-rock band Steely Dan.
  • B. Howe Gelb
    Howe Gelb is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the frontman of the influential indie rock band Giant Sand and a key figure in the Tucson desert rock scene.
  • C. Danny Kortchmar
    Danny Kortchmar is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer best known for his extensive work with major singer-songwriters of the 1970s and 1980s, including James Taylor, Carole King, and Don Henley.
  • D. Mike Garfath
    Mike Garfath is a cinematographer best known for his work on the British neo-noir film "Croupier."
  • E. Jeff Porcaro
    Jeff Porcaro was an American drummer, songwriter, and founding member of the rock band Toto, renowned as one of the most recorded and influential session drummers in popular music.
  • 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_69d81c5ae7c88190b0dd41bdafeb5999 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de0299334481908c2b271eaf06e4b7 completed April 14, 2026, 9:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7b8ebf2608190b1071ee6967fa8d3 completed May 3, 2026, 9:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7b9d928ac81908867a99740d6c3a0 completed May 3, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7ba6b2c208190b01e3a5ae872b14f completed May 3, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:13 p.m.