Triple

T1928475
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Arsenic and Old Lace (film) E40885 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Mortimer Brewster
Mortimer Brewster is the frantic, increasingly unhinged drama critic protagonist of the dark comedy film "Arsenic and Old Lace," who discovers his seemingly sweet aunts are serial poisoners.
E215299 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: Mortimer Brewster | Statement: [Arsenic and Old Lace (film), mainCharacter, Mortimer Brewster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mortimer Brewster
Context triple: [Arsenic and Old Lace (film), mainCharacter, Mortimer Brewster]
  • A. Felix Unger
    Felix Unger is an Austrian cardiac surgeon and academic known for co-founding and leading the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
  • B. Felix Unger
    Felix Unger is a fictional, fastidious and neurotic neat-freak character best known as one of the mismatched roommates in Neil Simon’s play and subsequent adaptations of "The Odd Couple."
  • C. Harry Bentley
    Harry Bentley is a quirky, soft-spoken British neighbor and United Nations translator on the classic American sitcom "The Jeffersons."
  • D. Ralph Malph
    Ralph Malph is a wisecracking, redheaded teenager known for his corny jokes and nervous humor on the classic TV sitcom "Happy Days."
  • E. Laurence
    Laurence is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
  • 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: Mortimer Brewster
Triple: [Arsenic and Old Lace (film), mainCharacter, Mortimer Brewster]
Generated description
Mortimer Brewster is the frantic, increasingly unhinged drama critic protagonist of the dark comedy film "Arsenic and Old Lace," who discovers his seemingly sweet aunts are serial poisoners.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mortimer Brewster
Target entity description: Mortimer Brewster is the frantic, increasingly unhinged drama critic protagonist of the dark comedy film "Arsenic and Old Lace," who discovers his seemingly sweet aunts are serial poisoners.
  • A. Felix Unger
    Felix Unger is an Austrian cardiac surgeon and academic known for co-founding and leading the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
  • B. Felix Unger
    Felix Unger is a fictional, fastidious and neurotic neat-freak character best known as one of the mismatched roommates in Neil Simon’s play and subsequent adaptations of "The Odd Couple."
  • C. Harry Bentley
    Harry Bentley is a quirky, soft-spoken British neighbor and United Nations translator on the classic American sitcom "The Jeffersons."
  • D. Ralph Malph
    Ralph Malph is a wisecracking, redheaded teenager known for his corny jokes and nervous humor on the classic TV sitcom "Happy Days."
  • E. Laurence
    Laurence is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
  • 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_69a8864711648190b07bed24ed76258e completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb26593308190835863b760449d04 completed March 7, 2026, 5:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adf3ed31448190a2e5d088ab5886b8 completed March 8, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adf48412b08190b6ad0f3abf42a081 completed March 8, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adf4f7c908819089ccdc881af10da9 completed March 8, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.