Triple

T17015355
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject UHF E412806 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Jay Levey
Jay Levey is an American film and music video director best known for directing "Weird Al" Yankovic’s 1989 cult comedy film *UHF* and many of the musician’s iconic videos.
E1248219 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: Jay Levey | Statement: [UHF, director, Jay Levey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jay Levey
Context triple: [UHF, director, Jay Levey]
  • A. Joel David Moore
    Joel David Moore is an American actor and director best known for his roles in films like "Avatar" and the TV series "Bones."
  • B. Michael Rapaport
    Michael Rapaport is an American actor and comedian known for his prolific character roles in film and television, as well as his outspoken, humorous public persona.
  • C. Jonathan Dancy
    Jonathan Dancy is a British moral philosopher best known for his work on moral particularism and contributions to contemporary ethical theory.
  • D. Bill Hartnett
    Bill Hartnett is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Hartnett, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
  • E. Liev Schreiber
    Liev Schreiber is an American actor, director, and producer known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including roles in "Ray Donovan," "Spotlight," and numerous Shakespearean stage productions.
  • 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: Jay Levey
Triple: [UHF, director, Jay Levey]
Generated description
Jay Levey is an American film and music video director best known for directing "Weird Al" Yankovic’s 1989 cult comedy film *UHF* and many of the musician’s iconic videos.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jay Levey
Target entity description: Jay Levey is an American film and music video director best known for directing "Weird Al" Yankovic’s 1989 cult comedy film *UHF* and many of the musician’s iconic videos.
  • A. Joel David Moore
    Joel David Moore is an American actor and director best known for his roles in films like "Avatar" and the TV series "Bones."
  • B. Michael Rapaport
    Michael Rapaport is an American actor and comedian known for his prolific character roles in film and television, as well as his outspoken, humorous public persona.
  • C. Jonathan Dancy
    Jonathan Dancy is a British moral philosopher best known for his work on moral particularism and contributions to contemporary ethical theory.
  • D. Bill Hartnett
    Bill Hartnett is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Hartnett, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
  • E. Liev Schreiber
    Liev Schreiber is an American actor, director, and producer known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including roles in "Ray Donovan," "Spotlight," and numerous Shakespearean stage productions.
  • 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_69d886cc4170819093deddc7b8b4b6a7 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3d47f198c8190b0473f638101f606 completed April 18, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01233311648190b5f8a8e7c209d124 completed May 11, 2026, 12:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0124f158a08190a803b37378a2c253 completed May 11, 2026, 12:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a012569322081908b60694851d50e4b completed May 11, 2026, 12:40 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:33 a.m.