Triple

T18073555
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Big Sombrero E432494 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Frank McDonald
Frank McDonald was an American film director best known for his prolific work on mid-20th-century Hollywood B-movies and genre pictures, particularly Westerns and musicals.
 E1305725 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: Frank McDonald | Statement: [The Big Sombrero, director, Frank McDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Frank McDonald
Context triple: [The Big Sombrero, director, Frank McDonald]
  • A. Francis McDonald
    Francis McDonald was an American character actor known for his prolific work in early 20th-century film and television, often appearing in Westerns and adventure serials.
  • B. Donald MacDonald
    Donald MacDonald was a Loyalist officer who led Scottish Highlander forces against Patriot militia in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Donald MacDonald
    Donald MacDonald is best known as the founder of the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, one of the most prominent Scottish cultural festivals in the United States.
  • D. Les McDonald
    Les McDonald was a Canadian sports administrator and former triathlete best known for leading the global development of triathlon and helping secure its inclusion in the Olympic Games.
  • E. William McDonald
    William McDonald is a name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, academia, and the arts.
  • 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: Frank McDonald
Triple: [The Big Sombrero, director, Frank McDonald]
Generated description
Frank McDonald was an American film director best known for his prolific work on mid-20th-century Hollywood B-movies and genre pictures, particularly Westerns and musicals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Frank McDonald
Target entity description: Frank McDonald was an American film director best known for his prolific work on mid-20th-century Hollywood B-movies and genre pictures, particularly Westerns and musicals.
  • A. Francis McDonald
    Francis McDonald was an American character actor known for his prolific work in early 20th-century film and television, often appearing in Westerns and adventure serials.
  • B. Donald MacDonald
    Donald MacDonald was a Loyalist officer who led Scottish Highlander forces against Patriot militia in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Donald MacDonald
    Donald MacDonald is best known as the founder of the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, one of the most prominent Scottish cultural festivals in the United States.
  • D. Les McDonald
    Les McDonald was a Canadian sports administrator and former triathlete best known for leading the global development of triathlon and helping secure its inclusion in the Olympic Games.
  • E. William McDonald
    William McDonald is a name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, academia, and the arts.
  • 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_69d8b9070cac81909fa9473fb1c3f1c7 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4ccefcdc4819086d0b224731bfc4d completed April 19, 2026, 12:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a035d880f088190accc81d29e709a2b completed May 12, 2026, 5:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a036c7ff1ec81908732a11ba9864ca4 completed May 12, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a036d00e3a881909f6ddb1c96a802ee completed May 12, 2026, 6:10 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:26 a.m.