Triple

T15012985
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Painted Veil (1934 film) E377884 entity
Predicate leadActorRole P5563 FINISHED
Object Herbert Marshall as Dr. Walter Fane
Herbert Marshall as Dr. Walter Fane is the central male character in the 1934 film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel "The Painted Veil," portraying a reserved British doctor whose troubled marriage unfolds against the backdrop of a cholera epidemic in China.
E1132405 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: Herbert Marshall as Dr. Walter Fane | Statement: [The Painted Veil (1934 film), leadActorRole, Herbert Marshall as Dr. Walter Fane]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Marshall as Dr. Walter Fane
Context triple: [The Painted Veil (1934 film), leadActorRole, Herbert Marshall as Dr. Walter Fane]
  • A. Michael Caine as Dr. Robert Elliott
    Michael Caine as Dr. Robert Elliott is the central, psychologically complex psychiatrist character he portrays in Brian De Palma’s 1980 thriller film "Dressed to Kill."
  • B. Michael Caine as Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead
    Michael Caine as Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead is the portrayal of a young, aristocratic British Army officer in the 1964 war film "Zulu," which helped launch Caine to international stardom.
  • C. Felix Aylmer
    Felix Aylmer was a distinguished English character actor known for his refined, often authoritative roles in British stage and film productions of the mid-20th century.
  • D. Noël Coward as Mr. Bridger
    Noël Coward as Mr. Bridger is the suave, aristocratic crime boss who orchestrates the heist from behind bars in the classic 1969 British caper film "The Italian Job."
  • E. Vincent Price as Nicholas Medina
    Vincent Price as Nicholas Medina is the iconic, tormented nobleman he portrays in Roger Corman’s 1961 Gothic horror film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum.”
  • 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: Herbert Marshall as Dr. Walter Fane
Triple: [The Painted Veil (1934 film), leadActorRole, Herbert Marshall as Dr. Walter Fane]
Generated description
Herbert Marshall as Dr. Walter Fane is the central male character in the 1934 film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel "The Painted Veil," portraying a reserved British doctor whose troubled marriage unfolds against the backdrop of a cholera epidemic in China.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Marshall as Dr. Walter Fane
Target entity description: Herbert Marshall as Dr. Walter Fane is the central male character in the 1934 film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel "The Painted Veil," portraying a reserved British doctor whose troubled marriage unfolds against the backdrop of a cholera epidemic in China.
  • A. Michael Caine as Dr. Robert Elliott
    Michael Caine as Dr. Robert Elliott is the central, psychologically complex psychiatrist character he portrays in Brian De Palma’s 1980 thriller film "Dressed to Kill."
  • B. Michael Caine as Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead
    Michael Caine as Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead is the portrayal of a young, aristocratic British Army officer in the 1964 war film "Zulu," which helped launch Caine to international stardom.
  • C. Felix Aylmer
    Felix Aylmer was a distinguished English character actor known for his refined, often authoritative roles in British stage and film productions of the mid-20th century.
  • D. Noël Coward as Mr. Bridger
    Noël Coward as Mr. Bridger is the suave, aristocratic crime boss who orchestrates the heist from behind bars in the classic 1969 British caper film "The Italian Job."
  • E. Vincent Price as Nicholas Medina
    Vincent Price as Nicholas Medina is the iconic, tormented nobleman he portrays in Roger Corman’s 1961 Gothic horror film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum.”
  • 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_69d85cd3a3c881908c71fc424d459c17 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded7613cec8190ac25e3f68c5d0edf completed April 15, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe96aa3c888190a65e7b3c3b130131 completed May 9, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe97af0a0c8190bca3ea103d05fd99 completed May 9, 2026, 2:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe98b18ab48190b2a47418904e6643 completed May 9, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:55 a.m.