Triple

T22335757
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Painted Trail E552142 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Robert F. Hill
Robert F. Hill was a Canadian-born film director and screenwriter known for his prolific work on low-budget Westerns and serials during the silent and early sound eras of Hollywood.
E1566088 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: Robert F. Hill | Statement: [The Painted Trail, director, Robert F. Hill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert F. Hill
Context triple: [The Painted Trail, director, Robert F. Hill]
  • A. George N. Hollins
    George N. Hollins was a 19th-century American naval officer who served as a prominent commander in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.
  • B. Philip M. Landrum
    Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
  • C. Edwin J. Hill
    Edwin J. Hill was a U.S. Navy chief boatswain’s mate and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for his heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II.
  • D. Maurice F. Smith
    Maurice F. Smith was the first husband of American singer and television personality Dinah Shore, known primarily in relation to her early personal life.
  • E. Reginald H. Jones
    Reginald H. Jones was an American business executive best known for serving as chairman and CEO of General Electric during the 1970s and early 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: Robert F. Hill
Triple: [The Painted Trail, director, Robert F. Hill]
Generated description
Robert F. Hill was a Canadian-born film director and screenwriter known for his prolific work on low-budget Westerns and serials during the silent and early sound eras of Hollywood.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert F. Hill
Target entity description: Robert F. Hill was a Canadian-born film director and screenwriter known for his prolific work on low-budget Westerns and serials during the silent and early sound eras of Hollywood.
  • A. George N. Hollins
    George N. Hollins was a 19th-century American naval officer who served as a prominent commander in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.
  • B. Philip M. Landrum
    Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
  • C. Edwin J. Hill
    Edwin J. Hill was a U.S. Navy chief boatswain’s mate and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for his heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II.
  • D. Maurice F. Smith
    Maurice F. Smith was the first husband of American singer and television personality Dinah Shore, known primarily in relation to her early personal life.
  • E. Reginald H. Jones
    Reginald H. Jones was an American business executive best known for serving as chairman and CEO of General Electric during the 1970s and early 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_69e11e494eec81909c4d2d51f69499d9 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1577f2f208190ac6270ac4581fa15 completed April 29, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0bf28c6374819099ff8ca38085d7d3 completed May 19, 2026, 5:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0bf7935b088190b0b8098ee877302f completed May 19, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0bf7f426b88190b3b6897b116b7809 completed May 19, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:43 p.m.