Triple

T2269698
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hal Ashby E50627 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object William Hal Ashby
William Hal Ashby was an influential American film director and editor best known for his offbeat, character-driven films of the 1970s such as "Harold and Maude," "Shampoo," and "Being There."
E254785 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: William Hal Ashby | Statement: [Hal Ashby, birthName, William Hal Ashby]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hal Ashby
Context triple: [Hal Ashby, birthName, William Hal Ashby]
  • A. Edward Linden
    Edward Linden was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic early Hollywood films, including the pioneering visual effects and photography of the 1933 monster movie "King Kong."
  • B. Arthur J. Brown
    Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
  • C. Arthur E. Bryson Jr.
    Arthur E. Bryson Jr. is a pioneering control theorist and aerospace engineer often regarded as a founder of modern optimal control theory.
  • D. Christopher Parsons
    Christopher Parsons was a British wildlife film producer and director renowned for his pioneering work on nature documentaries, particularly with the BBC Natural History Unit.
  • E. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • 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: William Hal Ashby
Triple: [Hal Ashby, birthName, William Hal Ashby]
Generated description
William Hal Ashby was an influential American film director and editor best known for his offbeat, character-driven films of the 1970s such as "Harold and Maude," "Shampoo," and "Being There."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hal Ashby
Target entity description: William Hal Ashby was an influential American film director and editor best known for his offbeat, character-driven films of the 1970s such as "Harold and Maude," "Shampoo," and "Being There."
  • A. Edward Linden
    Edward Linden was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic early Hollywood films, including the pioneering visual effects and photography of the 1933 monster movie "King Kong."
  • B. Arthur J. Brown
    Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
  • C. Arthur E. Bryson Jr.
    Arthur E. Bryson Jr. is a pioneering control theorist and aerospace engineer often regarded as a founder of modern optimal control theory.
  • D. Christopher Parsons
    Christopher Parsons was a British wildlife film producer and director renowned for his pioneering work on nature documentaries, particularly with the BBC Natural History Unit.
  • E. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • 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_69a88b05910c8190a9a2b1ff230c85f9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc1bd376c8190a43decde599f62e6 completed March 7, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae894a20e0819097f08959f7a062ef completed March 9, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae89e2efd48190a2f0a4702dcbc081 completed March 9, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae8a7726dc8190a18f7f1e1609253a completed March 9, 2026, 8:53 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.