Triple

T22664044
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sahara (2005 film) E559735 entity
Predicate leadCharacterPortrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Al Giordino – Steve Zahn
Al Giordino, portrayed by Steve Zahn, is the wisecracking, loyal sidekick and mechanic who accompanies adventurer Dirk Pitt in the action-adventure film "Sahara" (2005).
E1549674 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: Al Giordino – Steve Zahn | Statement: [Sahara (2005 film), leadCharacterPortrayedBy, Al Giordino – Steve Zahn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Al Giordino – Steve Zahn
Context triple: [Sahara (2005 film), leadCharacterPortrayedBy, Al Giordino – Steve Zahn]
  • A. Fantozzi
    Fantozzi is a popular Italian comedy film series centered on the misadventures of the hapless office clerk Ugo Fantozzi, a cult character in Italian pop culture.
  • B. The Italian Comedians
    The Italian Comedians is a celebrated painting by Antoine Watteau depicting a troupe of commedia dell’arte actors in an elegant, theatrical outdoor setting.
  • C. Giorgino
    Giorgino is an Italian diminutive form of the given name Giorgio, typically used as an affectionate or familiar nickname.
  • D. Gillo
    Gillo was the professional nickname of Italian film director Gillo Pontecorvo, best known for his influential anti-colonial war film "The Battle of Algiers."
  • E. Giardello
    Giardello is a fictional surname most notably associated with Al Giardello, a central character in the television series "Homicide: Life on the Street."
  • 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: Al Giordino – Steve Zahn
Triple: [Sahara (2005 film), leadCharacterPortrayedBy, Al Giordino – Steve Zahn]
Generated description
Al Giordino, portrayed by Steve Zahn, is the wisecracking, loyal sidekick and mechanic who accompanies adventurer Dirk Pitt in the action-adventure film "Sahara" (2005).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Al Giordino – Steve Zahn
Target entity description: Al Giordino, portrayed by Steve Zahn, is the wisecracking, loyal sidekick and mechanic who accompanies adventurer Dirk Pitt in the action-adventure film "Sahara" (2005).
  • A. Fantozzi
    Fantozzi is a popular Italian comedy film series centered on the misadventures of the hapless office clerk Ugo Fantozzi, a cult character in Italian pop culture.
  • B. The Italian Comedians
    The Italian Comedians is a celebrated painting by Antoine Watteau depicting a troupe of commedia dell’arte actors in an elegant, theatrical outdoor setting.
  • C. Giorgino
    Giorgino is an Italian diminutive form of the given name Giorgio, typically used as an affectionate or familiar nickname.
  • D. Gillo
    Gillo was the professional nickname of Italian film director Gillo Pontecorvo, best known for his influential anti-colonial war film "The Battle of Algiers."
  • E. Giardello
    Giardello is a fictional surname most notably associated with Al Giardello, a central character in the television series "Homicide: Life on the Street."
  • 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_69e2454a158c819093b8e35f5045efb6 completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f176617ed8819095a58a2c9f1e3918 completed April 29, 2026, 3:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b73e5fe208190b46cd7956dc4640a completed May 18, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b79cc34948190985f71a825fef91d completed May 18, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b7a57b09c819094bab59c7efa84b2 completed May 18, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:08 p.m.