Triple

T1928548
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Beast with Five Fingers E40887 entity
Predicate producer P490 FINISHED
Object William Jacobs
William Jacobs was an American film producer active during Hollywood's studio era, known for overseeing a range of genre films including classic horror titles.
E236800 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: William Jacobs | Statement: [The Beast with Five Fingers, producer, William Jacobs]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Jacobs
Context triple: [The Beast with Five Fingers, producer, William Jacobs]
  • A. Charles Jacobs
    Charles Jacobs was an entrepreneur best known as a founder of Delaware North, a major global hospitality and food service company.
  • B. Frank Lubey
    Frank Lubey is a minor but symbolically important neighbor in Arthur Miller’s play "All My Sons," whose interest in astrology and everyday normalcy contrasts with the Keller family’s buried guilt.
  • C. Andrew Heiskell
    Andrew Heiskell was an American publishing executive and philanthropist best known as a longtime leader of Time Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s cultural and civic life.
  • D. 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.
  • E. William Nolan
    William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
  • 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: William Jacobs
Triple: [The Beast with Five Fingers, producer, William Jacobs]
Generated description
William Jacobs was an American film producer active during Hollywood's studio era, known for overseeing a range of genre films including classic horror titles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Jacobs
Target entity description: William Jacobs was an American film producer active during Hollywood's studio era, known for overseeing a range of genre films including classic horror titles.
  • A. Charles Jacobs
    Charles Jacobs was an entrepreneur best known as a founder of Delaware North, a major global hospitality and food service company.
  • B. Frank Lubey
    Frank Lubey is a minor but symbolically important neighbor in Arthur Miller’s play "All My Sons," whose interest in astrology and everyday normalcy contrasts with the Keller family’s buried guilt.
  • C. Andrew Heiskell
    Andrew Heiskell was an American publishing executive and philanthropist best known as a longtime leader of Time Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s cultural and civic life.
  • D. 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.
  • E. William Nolan
    William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
  • 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_69ae5173b2188190bfb492c73a1bba06 completed March 9, 2026, 4:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae522f0394819087a7e7d9c6ca354c completed March 9, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5316acf881908dde9d83c36c8fd0 completed March 9, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.