Triple

T14412874
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject There's Something About Mary E357374 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Ed Decter
Ed Decter is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work on hit comedies such as "There's Something About Mary" and for co-creating the TV series "Shadowhunters."
E1097615 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: Ed Decter | Statement: [There's Something About Mary, screenwriter, Ed Decter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed Decter
Context triple: [There's Something About Mary, screenwriter, Ed Decter]
  • A. Ben Decter
    Ben Decter is a television and film composer known for scoring series such as the action-comedy drama "Lethal Weapon."
  • B. Jack Pierce
    Jack Pierce was a legendary Hollywood makeup artist best known for creating the iconic monster makeups for Universal horror films such as Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Wolf Man.
  • C. Eric Draven
    Eric Draven is the vengeful, resurrected rock musician and antihero from the dark fantasy film and comic series "The Crow."
  • D. Max Renn
    Max Renn is the morally ambiguous television executive and protagonist of David Cronenberg’s 1983 sci-fi horror film "Videodrome," whose exposure to a mysterious broadcast leads to disturbing hallucinations and a descent into body horror.
  • E. Andy Starke
    Andy Starke is a British film producer known for his work on distinctive independent and genre films, including projects with the production company Rook Films.
  • 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: Ed Decter
Triple: [There's Something About Mary, screenwriter, Ed Decter]
Generated description
Ed Decter is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work on hit comedies such as "There's Something About Mary" and for co-creating the TV series "Shadowhunters."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed Decter
Target entity description: Ed Decter is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work on hit comedies such as "There's Something About Mary" and for co-creating the TV series "Shadowhunters."
  • A. Ben Decter
    Ben Decter is a television and film composer known for scoring series such as the action-comedy drama "Lethal Weapon."
  • B. Jack Pierce
    Jack Pierce was a legendary Hollywood makeup artist best known for creating the iconic monster makeups for Universal horror films such as Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Wolf Man.
  • C. Eric Draven
    Eric Draven is the vengeful, resurrected rock musician and antihero from the dark fantasy film and comic series "The Crow."
  • D. Max Renn
    Max Renn is the morally ambiguous television executive and protagonist of David Cronenberg’s 1983 sci-fi horror film "Videodrome," whose exposure to a mysterious broadcast leads to disturbing hallucinations and a descent into body horror.
  • E. Andy Starke
    Andy Starke is a British film producer known for his work on distinctive independent and genre films, including projects with the production company Rook Films.
  • 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_69d82793421c8190861eb0e673b085de completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de90cb3c708190822f5506ebf7ee9d completed April 14, 2026, 7:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd552858208190ba1550e7c1176a2a completed May 8, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd5671e4688190ab1b7a7ed6c0cfb8 completed May 8, 2026, 3:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd57710f648190a1344ac1363acce1 completed May 8, 2026, 3:24 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:17 a.m.