Triple

T14414033
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject They Might Be Giants (film) E357401 entity
Predicate editedBy P1954 FINISHED
Object John C. Howard
John C. Howard was a film editor best known for his work on the 1971 mystery-comedy film "They Might Be Giants."
 E1164408 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 C. Howard | Statement: [They Might Be Giants (film), editedBy, John C. Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John C. Howard
Context triple: [They Might Be Giants (film), editedBy, John C. Howard]
  • A. Joseph A. Howard
    Joseph A. Howard was the husband of American film actress Priscilla Lane.
  • B. George W. Howard
    George W. Howard was a prominent American labor leader and organizer associated with the American Railway Union during the late 19th century.
  • C. John F. Richardson
    John F. Richardson is the father of Mary Richardson Kennedy, who was known for her marriage to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and her work as an interior designer and philanthropist.
  • D. James O. McKinsey
    James O. McKinsey was an American accounting professor and management consultant who pioneered modern management consulting and founded the firm that became McKinsey & Company.
  • E. Glen H. Taylor
    Glen H. Taylor was an Idaho senator and progressive Democrat best known for serving as Henry A. Wallace’s vice-presidential running mate on the Progressive Party ticket in the 1948 U.S. presidential election.
  • 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 C. Howard
Triple: [They Might Be Giants (film), editedBy, John C. Howard]
Generated description
John C. Howard was a film editor best known for his work on the 1971 mystery-comedy film "They Might Be Giants."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John C. Howard
Target entity description: John C. Howard was a film editor best known for his work on the 1971 mystery-comedy film "They Might Be Giants."
  • A. Joseph A. Howard
    Joseph A. Howard was the husband of American film actress Priscilla Lane.
  • B. George W. Howard
    George W. Howard was a prominent American labor leader and organizer associated with the American Railway Union during the late 19th century.
  • C. John F. Richardson
    John F. Richardson is the father of Mary Richardson Kennedy, who was known for her marriage to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and her work as an interior designer and philanthropist.
  • D. James O. McKinsey
    James O. McKinsey was an American accounting professor and management consultant who pioneered modern management consulting and founded the firm that became McKinsey & Company.
  • E. Glen H. Taylor
    Glen H. Taylor was an Idaho senator and progressive Democrat best known for serving as Henry A. Wallace’s vice-presidential running mate on the Progressive Party ticket in the 1948 U.S. presidential election.
  • 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_69ff4c2a938081909ccd9fe7c5021dc6 completed May 9, 2026, 3 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff4d7e60dc8190aa80cb269b1811bc completed May 9, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff4e03e8748190a23e7577accaf04a completed May 9, 2026, 3:08 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:17 a.m.