Triple

T16648206
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roger Thornhill E404530 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Lester Townsend
Lester Townsend is a fictional United Nations diplomat whose mistaken identity is central to the plot of Alfred Hitchcock’s film "North by Northwest."
E1230532 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: Lester Townsend | Statement: [Roger Thornhill, associatedWith, Lester Townsend]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester Townsend
Context triple: [Roger Thornhill, associatedWith, Lester Townsend]
  • A. Lester Whittington
    Lester Whittington was an architect best known for designing the Alaska State Capitol building in Juneau.
  • B. Lester Orlebeck
    Lester Orlebeck was an American film editor and occasional director known for his work on numerous Hollywood features, including classic family films of the mid-20th century.
  • C. Lester Ballard
    Lester Ballard is the violent, mentally unstable drifter and antihero at the center of Cormac McCarthy’s novel "Child of God," known for his descent into extreme depravity and isolation in rural Tennessee.
  • D. Lester Hubbard
    Lester Hubbard is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Hubbard, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
  • E. Lester Melroe
    Lester Melroe was an American inventor and entrepreneur best known for developing the compact skid-steer loader that led to the creation of the Bobcat brand.
  • 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: Lester Townsend
Triple: [Roger Thornhill, associatedWith, Lester Townsend]
Generated description
Lester Townsend is a fictional United Nations diplomat whose mistaken identity is central to the plot of Alfred Hitchcock’s film "North by Northwest."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester Townsend
Target entity description: Lester Townsend is a fictional United Nations diplomat whose mistaken identity is central to the plot of Alfred Hitchcock’s film "North by Northwest."
  • A. Lester Whittington
    Lester Whittington was an architect best known for designing the Alaska State Capitol building in Juneau.
  • B. Lester Orlebeck
    Lester Orlebeck was an American film editor and occasional director known for his work on numerous Hollywood features, including classic family films of the mid-20th century.
  • C. Lester Ballard
    Lester Ballard is the violent, mentally unstable drifter and antihero at the center of Cormac McCarthy’s novel "Child of God," known for his descent into extreme depravity and isolation in rural Tennessee.
  • D. Lester Hubbard
    Lester Hubbard is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Hubbard, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
  • E. Lester Melroe
    Lester Melroe was an American inventor and entrepreneur best known for developing the compact skid-steer loader that led to the creation of the Bobcat brand.
  • 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_69d8838a41f08190b0c3f79c47df5078 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e37ad794388190b2817d2ec5ff0de0 completed April 18, 2026, 12:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a009d2f7ad88190ba85a79154502841 completed May 10, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a009df9e4ec81909c4c155a026904fe completed May 10, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a009eb06d6481909914286301f9b4db completed May 10, 2026, 3:05 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:18 a.m.