Triple
T20883183
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966 TV special) |
E514203
|
entity |
| Predicate | director |
P255
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ben Washam |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Ben Washam | Statement: [How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966 TV special), director, Ben Washam]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Washam Context triple: [How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966 TV special), director, Ben Washam]
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A.
Ben Washam
chosen
Ben Washam was an American animator best known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons, where he was a key animator on many classic Looney Tunes shorts.
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B.
Boyd Parham
Boyd Parham is a central character in Cormac McCarthy’s novel "The Crossing," depicted as a young cowboy whose journeys across the U.S.–Mexico border confront him with loss, violence, and existential uncertainty.
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C.
Wayne Hardin
Wayne Hardin was a prominent American college football coach best known for his successful tenures leading the Navy Midshipmen and Temple Owls programs.
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D.
Randy Waldrum
Randy Waldrum is an American soccer coach best known for his long tenure leading the Notre Dame women’s team to multiple NCAA titles and for managing both professional clubs and national women’s teams.
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E.
Sam Houser
Sam Houser is a British video game producer and co-founder of Rockstar Games, best known for leading the creation of the Grand Theft Auto series.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0b4f733f081908a401c0b7beb0b9f |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6c67b03088190be7cbcde8c59509a |
completed | April 21, 2026, 12:36 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:46 p.m.