Triple

T18289751
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Man Who Came Back (1924 film) E438079 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Emmett J. Flynn
Emmett J. Flynn was an American film director of the silent era known for helming several dramas and literary adaptations in the 1920s.
E1360093 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: Emmett J. Flynn | Statement: [The Man Who Came Back (1924 film), director, Emmett J. Flynn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Emmett J. Flynn
Context triple: [The Man Who Came Back (1924 film), director, Emmett J. Flynn]
  • A. Eugene A. Fitzgerald
    Eugene A. Fitzgerald is an American materials scientist and engineer known for pioneering work in semiconductor materials and device technologies.
  • B. William F. O’Connor
    William F. O’Connor was an Irish political figure who succeeded Tomás Mac Curtain in office, likely in a local governmental role in Cork during the early 20th century.
  • C. Warren P. McGuirk
    Warren P. McGuirk was a longtime University of Massachusetts athletic director and influential figure in the school's sports history.
  • D. Cornelius J. Sullivan
    Cornelius J. Sullivan was an American lawyer and art collector active in early 20th-century New York cultural circles.
  • E. Thomas E. Molloy
    Thomas E. Molloy was a prominent 20th-century American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the long-time Bishop of Brooklyn, overseeing significant growth and development in the diocese.
  • 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: Emmett J. Flynn
Triple: [The Man Who Came Back (1924 film), director, Emmett J. Flynn]
Generated description
Emmett J. Flynn was an American film director of the silent era known for helming several dramas and literary adaptations in the 1920s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Emmett J. Flynn
Target entity description: Emmett J. Flynn was an American film director of the silent era known for helming several dramas and literary adaptations in the 1920s.
  • A. Eugene A. Fitzgerald
    Eugene A. Fitzgerald is an American materials scientist and engineer known for pioneering work in semiconductor materials and device technologies.
  • B. William F. O’Connor
    William F. O’Connor was an Irish political figure who succeeded Tomás Mac Curtain in office, likely in a local governmental role in Cork during the early 20th century.
  • C. Warren P. McGuirk
    Warren P. McGuirk was a longtime University of Massachusetts athletic director and influential figure in the school's sports history.
  • D. Cornelius J. Sullivan
    Cornelius J. Sullivan was an American lawyer and art collector active in early 20th-century New York cultural circles.
  • E. Thomas E. Molloy
    Thomas E. Molloy was a prominent 20th-century American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the long-time Bishop of Brooklyn, overseeing significant growth and development in the diocese.
  • 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_69d8b914530c8190b4474d862a2b2a1b completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e500fd65888190afdbb29dc60066af completed April 19, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05e6528cf08190a304eebf76d8b79b completed May 14, 2026, 3:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05e96742c8819086680fb949f8f1bc completed May 14, 2026, 3:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05ea69dea48190b97663a859645200 completed May 14, 2026, 3:29 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:35 a.m.