Triple

T16887412
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ice Age: Collision Course E421574 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Mike Thurmeier
Mike Thurmeier is a Canadian animator and film director best known for his work on the Ice Age animated film series.
 E1240696 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: Mike Thurmeier | Statement: [Ice Age: Collision Course, director, Mike Thurmeier]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mike Thurmeier
Context triple: [Ice Age: Collision Course, director, Mike Thurmeier]
  • A. Michael Thiel
    Michael Thiel is an individual notable enough to be specifically distinguished from others sharing the surname Thiel.
  • B. Michael Umlauf
    Michael Umlauf was a 19th-century Austrian composer, violinist, and conductor best known for co-conducting the premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
  • C. Michael Tuchner
    Michael Tuchner was a British film and television director known for his work on crime dramas and character-driven stories in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • D. Peter Vinnemeier
    Peter Vinnemeier is a German entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global hotel search and price comparison platform Trivago.
  • E. Michael Schiffer
    Michael Schiffer is an American screenwriter and playwright best known for scripting films such as "Lean on Me," "Crimson Tide," and "The Peacemaker."
  • 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: Mike Thurmeier
Triple: [Ice Age: Collision Course, director, Mike Thurmeier]
Generated description
Mike Thurmeier is a Canadian animator and film director best known for his work on the Ice Age animated film series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mike Thurmeier
Target entity description: Mike Thurmeier is a Canadian animator and film director best known for his work on the Ice Age animated film series.
  • A. Michael Thiel
    Michael Thiel is an individual notable enough to be specifically distinguished from others sharing the surname Thiel.
  • B. Michael Umlauf
    Michael Umlauf was a 19th-century Austrian composer, violinist, and conductor best known for co-conducting the premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
  • C. Michael Tuchner
    Michael Tuchner was a British film and television director known for his work on crime dramas and character-driven stories in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • D. Peter Vinnemeier
    Peter Vinnemeier is a German entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global hotel search and price comparison platform Trivago.
  • E. Michael Schiffer
    Michael Schiffer is an American screenwriter and playwright best known for scripting films such as "Lean on Me," "Crimson Tide," and "The Peacemaker."
  • 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_69d889d470fc8190b4aec199636c0c56 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3bbc1f42481909dcf595358c23497 completed April 18, 2026, 5:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00cfca11bc8190b0835de0d56ca0b1 completed May 10, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00d048da5c8190ba7b96665c4e0f8b completed May 10, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00d0d23c248190bf0cfedd846f2161 completed May 10, 2026, 6:39 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:29 a.m.