Triple

T1928706
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Crime and Punishment (1935 film) E40890 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Douglass Dumbrille
Douglass Dumbrille was a Canadian-born character actor best known for his prolific work in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, often portraying suave villains and authority figures.
E300246 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: Douglass Dumbrille | Statement: [Crime and Punishment (1935 film), starring, Douglass Dumbrille]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglass Dumbrille
Context triple: [Crime and Punishment (1935 film), starring, Douglass Dumbrille]
  • A. James Hallock
    James Hallock is an aviation and safety expert who served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board that examined the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
  • B. Walter Darre
    Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
  • C. Charles Downing
    Charles Downing was the brother of influential American landscape designer and horticulturist Andrew Jackson Downing, and was himself involved in 19th-century American horticulture.
  • D. John Wildes
    John Wildes is a historical figure known primarily as the husband of Sarah Wildes, one of the women accused during the Salem witch trials.
  • E. James Dodd
    James Dodd is an actor known for his role in the fantasy superhero film "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
  • 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: Douglass Dumbrille
Triple: [Crime and Punishment (1935 film), starring, Douglass Dumbrille]
Generated description
Douglass Dumbrille was a Canadian-born character actor best known for his prolific work in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, often portraying suave villains and authority figures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglass Dumbrille
Target entity description: Douglass Dumbrille was a Canadian-born character actor best known for his prolific work in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, often portraying suave villains and authority figures.
  • A. James Hallock
    James Hallock is an aviation and safety expert who served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board that examined the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
  • B. Walter Darre
    Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
  • C. Charles Downing
    Charles Downing was the brother of influential American landscape designer and horticulturist Andrew Jackson Downing, and was himself involved in 19th-century American horticulture.
  • D. John Wildes
    John Wildes is a historical figure known primarily as the husband of Sarah Wildes, one of the women accused during the Salem witch trials.
  • E. James Dodd
    James Dodd is an actor known for his role in the fantasy superhero film "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
  • 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_69afc6200bd08190bd1d9fd3046fca00 completed March 10, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc9e306e8819094f24c22a9208fcb completed March 10, 2026, 7:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afca4638f8819093b6f5f49a950f52 completed March 10, 2026, 7:37 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.