Triple

T2007946
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Flying Down to Rio E43627 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Thornton Freeland
Thornton Freeland was an American film director active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his work on Hollywood musicals and comedies.
E224451 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: Thornton Freeland | Statement: [Flying Down to Rio, director, Thornton Freeland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thornton Freeland
Context triple: [Flying Down to Rio, director, Thornton Freeland]
  • A. Gulian McEvers
    Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • B. Frederic McLaughlin
    Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
  • C. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • D. Solomon Young
    Solomon Young was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and a significant early influence in Truman’s upbringing and character.
  • E. Samuel McIntire
    Samuel McIntire was an influential early American architect and woodcarver from Salem, Massachusetts, renowned for his Federal-style designs and decorative craftsmanship.
  • 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: Thornton Freeland
Triple: [Flying Down to Rio, director, Thornton Freeland]
Generated description
Thornton Freeland was an American film director active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his work on Hollywood musicals and comedies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thornton Freeland
Target entity description: Thornton Freeland was an American film director active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his work on Hollywood musicals and comedies.
  • A. Gulian McEvers
    Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • B. Frederic McLaughlin
    Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
  • C. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • D. Solomon Young
    Solomon Young was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and a significant early influence in Truman’s upbringing and character.
  • E. Samuel McIntire
    Samuel McIntire was an influential early American architect and woodcarver from Salem, Massachusetts, renowned for his Federal-style designs and decorative craftsmanship.
  • 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_69a88716e9f08190946313fdc949e3cf completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb89aca908190b8b659af65afdf6f completed March 7, 2026, 5:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae0ae12d708190bcfe91e3ab53f04e completed March 8, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae0b63b85c819096fc8ad12ace4d22 completed March 8, 2026, 11:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae0bc55fcc8190bf117ef1328b8a76 completed March 8, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.