Triple

T1637267
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Flight E35384 entity
Predicate characterIn P12208 FINISHED
Object Whip Whitaker
Whip Whitaker is the troubled airline pilot protagonist of the film "Flight," known for his heroic crash landing and subsequent struggle with addiction and accountability.
 E185487 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: Whip Whitaker | Statement: [Flight, characterIn, Whip Whitaker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Whip Whitaker
Context triple: [Flight, characterIn, Whip Whitaker]
  • A. Forest Steven Whitaker
    Forest Steven Whitaker is an American actor, producer, and director known for his intense, nuanced performances and his Academy Award–winning role as Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland."
  • B. Johnny Whitaker
    Johnny Whitaker is an American former child actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Family Affair" and films such as "Tom Sawyer" (1973) and "The Biscuit Eater."
  • C. Dwight Merriman
    Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
  • D. Maxwell Burns
    Maxwell Burns was one of the children of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns.
  • E. Sam J. Jones
    Sam J. Jones is an American actor best known for starring as the title character in the 1980 science fiction film "Flash Gordon."
  • 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: Whip Whitaker
Triple: [Flight, characterIn, Whip Whitaker]
Generated description
Whip Whitaker is the troubled airline pilot protagonist of the film "Flight," known for his heroic crash landing and subsequent struggle with addiction and accountability.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Whip Whitaker
Target entity description: Whip Whitaker is the troubled airline pilot protagonist of the film "Flight," known for his heroic crash landing and subsequent struggle with addiction and accountability.
  • A. Forest Steven Whitaker
    Forest Steven Whitaker is an American actor, producer, and director known for his intense, nuanced performances and his Academy Award–winning role as Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland."
  • B. Johnny Whitaker
    Johnny Whitaker is an American former child actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Family Affair" and films such as "Tom Sawyer" (1973) and "The Biscuit Eater."
  • C. Dwight Merriman
    Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
  • D. Maxwell Burns
    Maxwell Burns was one of the children of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns.
  • E. Sam J. Jones
    Sam J. Jones is an American actor best known for starring as the title character in the 1980 science fiction film "Flash Gordon."
  • 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_69a886036bc081909ff5de16dbe5e8ea completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90a192d588190bbfa4693ed787c05 completed March 5, 2026, 4:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad6099979481908e2c506323d546dd completed March 8, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad6111fcc8819086923966b485c592 completed March 8, 2026, 11:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad619f842c8190936b659b30d6aa10 completed March 8, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.