Triple

T16698144
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Crooked Way E405772 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Richard H. Landau
Richard H. Landau was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century crime and noir films as well as numerous television scripts.
 E1229287 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: Richard H. Landau | Statement: [The Crooked Way, screenwriter, Richard H. Landau]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard H. Landau
Context triple: [The Crooked Way, screenwriter, Richard H. Landau]
  • A. David P. Landau
    David P. Landau is a physicist renowned for his pioneering work in computational statistical physics and Monte Carlo simulations of phase transitions and critical phenomena.
  • B. Lawrence Landau
    Lawrence Landau is an individual known primarily as the brother of Nathan Landau.
  • C. Robert R. Shrock
    Robert R. Shrock was a prominent American geologist recognized for his significant contributions to stratigraphy and sedimentology.
  • D. David Leonard Landau
    David Leonard Landau is the birth name of American actor and comedian David L. Lander, best known for playing Squiggy on the television sitcom "Laverne & Shirley."
  • E. Nigel Goldenfeld
    Nigel Goldenfeld is a theoretical physicist known for his influential work in statistical physics, complex systems, and fluid dynamics.
  • 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: Richard H. Landau
Triple: [The Crooked Way, screenwriter, Richard H. Landau]
Generated description
Richard H. Landau was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century crime and noir films as well as numerous television scripts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard H. Landau
Target entity description: Richard H. Landau was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century crime and noir films as well as numerous television scripts.
  • A. David P. Landau
    David P. Landau is a physicist renowned for his pioneering work in computational statistical physics and Monte Carlo simulations of phase transitions and critical phenomena.
  • B. Lawrence Landau
    Lawrence Landau is an individual known primarily as the brother of Nathan Landau.
  • C. Robert R. Shrock
    Robert R. Shrock was a prominent American geologist recognized for his significant contributions to stratigraphy and sedimentology.
  • D. David Leonard Landau
    David Leonard Landau is the birth name of American actor and comedian David L. Lander, best known for playing Squiggy on the television sitcom "Laverne & Shirley."
  • E. Nigel Goldenfeld
    Nigel Goldenfeld is a theoretical physicist known for his influential work in statistical physics, complex systems, and fluid dynamics.
  • 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_69d8838db21081909589220fd71440a4 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3832f550c8190bf7514d4611dec6a completed April 18, 2026, 1:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00919ee61c81909928dd26270e9614 completed May 10, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00925fda608190b3674bd5e9ca6bf5 completed May 10, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00939075d88190a63cdd942eb3fea8 completed May 10, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:19 a.m.