Triple

T20396821
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject White Zombie E500227 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Victor Halperin
Victor Halperin was an American film director best known for his influential 1932 horror film "White Zombie," often cited as one of the first feature-length zombie movies.
 E1428538 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: Victor Halperin | Statement: [White Zombie, director, Victor Halperin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Victor Halperin
Context triple: [White Zombie, director, Victor Halperin]
  • A. Erich Pleskoff
    Erich Pleskoff is the birth name of Eric Pleskow, the Austrian-born American film producer and former president of United Artists and Orion Pictures.
  • B. Gregory Ratoff
    Gregory Ratoff was a Russian-born American actor, director, and producer known for his character roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • C. Anatole Litvak
    Anatole Litvak was a Ukrainian-born film director known for his work in Hollywood and Europe, particularly for psychologically intense dramas and wartime films.
  • D. Victor Schertzinger
    Victor Schertzinger was an American film director, composer, and musician active in the early 20th century, known for his work on Hollywood musicals and comedies.
  • E. Ernest Kinoy
    Ernest Kinoy was an American screenwriter and playwright known for his work in television and film, including contributions to landmark miniseries and socially conscious dramas.
  • 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: Victor Halperin
Triple: [White Zombie, director, Victor Halperin]
Generated description
Victor Halperin was an American film director best known for his influential 1932 horror film "White Zombie," often cited as one of the first feature-length zombie movies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Victor Halperin
Target entity description: Victor Halperin was an American film director best known for his influential 1932 horror film "White Zombie," often cited as one of the first feature-length zombie movies.
  • A. Erich Pleskoff
    Erich Pleskoff is the birth name of Eric Pleskow, the Austrian-born American film producer and former president of United Artists and Orion Pictures.
  • B. Gregory Ratoff
    Gregory Ratoff was a Russian-born American actor, director, and producer known for his character roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • C. Anatole Litvak
    Anatole Litvak was a Ukrainian-born film director known for his work in Hollywood and Europe, particularly for psychologically intense dramas and wartime films.
  • D. Victor Schertzinger
    Victor Schertzinger was an American film director, composer, and musician active in the early 20th century, known for his work on Hollywood musicals and comedies.
  • E. Ernest Kinoy
    Ernest Kinoy was an American screenwriter and playwright known for his work in television and film, including contributions to landmark miniseries and socially conscious dramas.
  • 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_69e0b4a81bec8190b69adfdc1336a015 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6798b6640819085d5b12dc35633fe completed April 20, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08762804ac81909e90e7983246cb28 completed May 16, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0877d6b364819080b5e701acea02aa completed May 16, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08787cfe6c8190881554ead3cfd248 completed May 16, 2026, 2 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:28 a.m.