Triple

T2173021
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chinatown E48465 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object J. J. Gittes
J. J. Gittes is the cynical yet principled private investigator portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the classic neo-noir film "Chinatown."
E243073 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: J. J. Gittes | Statement: [Chinatown, mainCharacter, J. J. Gittes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. J. Gittes
Context triple: [Chinatown, mainCharacter, J. J. Gittes]
  • A. Jack Crawford
    Jack Crawford is a seasoned FBI agent and head of the Behavioral Science Unit who mentors Clarice Starling in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations.
  • B. Martin Beck
    Martin Beck was a prominent early 20th-century American theatrical impresario and vaudeville entrepreneur who played a key role in developing Broadway and national theater circuits.
  • C. Sam Spade
    Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private detective and the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," widely regarded as a defining figure in American noir fiction.
  • D. Philip Marlowe
    Philip Marlowe is a hardboiled, wisecracking private detective created by Raymond Chandler and featured in a series of classic American crime novels and film noir adaptations.
  • E. Jack Weston
    Jack Weston was an American character actor known for his comic and dramatic roles in film, television, and theater from the 1950s through the 1980s.
  • 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: J. J. Gittes
Triple: [Chinatown, mainCharacter, J. J. Gittes]
Generated description
J. J. Gittes is the cynical yet principled private investigator portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the classic neo-noir film "Chinatown."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. J. Gittes
Target entity description: J. J. Gittes is the cynical yet principled private investigator portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the classic neo-noir film "Chinatown."
  • A. Jack Crawford
    Jack Crawford is a seasoned FBI agent and head of the Behavioral Science Unit who mentors Clarice Starling in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations.
  • B. Martin Beck
    Martin Beck was a prominent early 20th-century American theatrical impresario and vaudeville entrepreneur who played a key role in developing Broadway and national theater circuits.
  • C. Sam Spade
    Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private detective and the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," widely regarded as a defining figure in American noir fiction.
  • D. Philip Marlowe
    Philip Marlowe is a hardboiled, wisecracking private detective created by Raymond Chandler and featured in a series of classic American crime novels and film noir adaptations.
  • E. Jack Weston
    Jack Weston was an American character actor known for his comic and dramatic roles in film, television, and theater from the 1950s through the 1980s.
  • 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_69a88aa3faa48190995b233af6525815 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbecb97a48190834e3e536184bbd1 completed March 7, 2026, 5:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae5d9c61448190930777bcf2028882 completed March 9, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae5e1ea6108190b22ead618d620613 completed March 9, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5ea7909c8190a93d87a5d07b84d4 completed March 9, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:45 p.m.