Triple

T1747557
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Shape of Water E38368 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Richard Strickland
Richard Strickland is the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro's film "The Shape of Water," a cruel government agent whose brutality and obsession drive much of the story's conflict.
 E247263 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 Strickland | Statement: [The Shape of Water, character, Richard Strickland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard Strickland
Context triple: [The Shape of Water, character, Richard Strickland]
  • A. Richard Stolley
    Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
  • B. Richard Straker
    Richard Straker is a sinister antique dealer and human servant to the vampire Kurt Barlow in Stephen King’s horror novel "Salem’s Lot."
  • C. William Strickland
    William Strickland was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer known for pioneering the Greek Revival style in the United States.
  • D. Robert E. Strickland
    Robert E. Strickland was an actor who appeared in the 1943 musical film "Girl Crazy."
  • E. David Scearce
    David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
  • 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 Strickland
Triple: [The Shape of Water, character, Richard Strickland]
Generated description
Richard Strickland is the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro's film "The Shape of Water," a cruel government agent whose brutality and obsession drive much of the story's conflict.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard Strickland
Target entity description: Richard Strickland is the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro's film "The Shape of Water," a cruel government agent whose brutality and obsession drive much of the story's conflict.
  • A. Richard Stolley
    Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
  • B. Richard Straker
    Richard Straker is a sinister antique dealer and human servant to the vampire Kurt Barlow in Stephen King’s horror novel "Salem’s Lot."
  • C. William Strickland
    William Strickland was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer known for pioneering the Greek Revival style in the United States.
  • D. Robert E. Strickland
    Robert E. Strickland was an actor who appeared in the 1943 musical film "Girl Crazy."
  • E. David Scearce
    David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
  • 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_69a8862b01a48190ab47209063af82d9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa63ecda0c819091f81942a5bde31d completed March 6, 2026, 5:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6adefc088190b1c6173c4be1d5a2 completed March 9, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6b73bb688190bcade17d991c4862 completed March 9, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6be4431c81909c9b4ad82226215d completed March 9, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.