Triple

T18522943
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sidney Lanfield E452634 entity
Predicate directed P7373 FINISHED
Object The Meanest Man in the World — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: The Meanest Man in the World | Statement: [Sidney Lanfield, directed, The Meanest Man in the World]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Meanest Man in the World
Context triple: [Sidney Lanfield, directed, The Meanest Man in the World]
  • A. The Hard Man
    The Hard Man is a 1957 American Western film starring Guy Madison as a tough lawman caught in a deadly conflict with a powerful rancher.
  • B. The Last Angry Man
    The Last Angry Man is a 1959 American drama film, based on Gerald Green’s novel, about an idealistic, aging Brooklyn doctor confronting social and personal challenges in a changing world.
  • C. The Violent Men
    The Violent Men is a 1955 American Western film starring Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson, noted for its intense land war drama and striking cinematography.
  • D. Day of the Badman
    Day of the Badman is a 1958 American Western film starring Fred MacMurray as a principled judge facing down outlaws to uphold justice in a frontier town.
  • E. There Was a Crooked Man
    "There Was a Crooked Man" is a British comedy film featuring Norman Wisdom in one of his characteristic comic roles.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Meanest Man in the World
Target entity description: The Meanest Man in the World is a 1943 American comedy film starring Jack Benny as a mild-mannered lawyer who pretends to be ruthless to advance his career, leading to a series of humorous complications.
  • A. The Hard Man
    The Hard Man is a 1957 American Western film starring Guy Madison as a tough lawman caught in a deadly conflict with a powerful rancher.
  • B. The Last Angry Man
    The Last Angry Man is a 1959 American drama film, based on Gerald Green’s novel, about an idealistic, aging Brooklyn doctor confronting social and personal challenges in a changing world.
  • C. The Violent Men
    The Violent Men is a 1955 American Western film starring Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson, noted for its intense land war drama and striking cinematography.
  • D. Day of the Badman
    Day of the Badman is a 1958 American Western film starring Fred MacMurray as a principled judge facing down outlaws to uphold justice in a frontier town.
  • E. There Was a Crooked Man
    "There Was a Crooked Man" is a British comedy film featuring Norman Wisdom in one of his characteristic comic roles.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69d8d386df84819092355ebb260d848e completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5338f6da48190bdb374019d10db05 completed April 19, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:37 a.m.