Triple

T2308205
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Midnight Cowboy E51890 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Waldo Salt
Waldo Salt was an American screenwriter renowned for his Oscar-winning work on films such as "Midnight Cowboy" and "Coming Home."
E252837 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: Waldo Salt | Statement: [Midnight Cowboy, screenwriter, Waldo Salt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Waldo Salt
Context triple: [Midnight Cowboy, screenwriter, Waldo Salt]
  • A. Bob Hartley
    Bob Hartley is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach best known for leading the Colorado Avalanche to a Stanley Cup championship and later coaching several NHL teams, including the Atlanta Thrashers and Calgary Flames.
  • B. Neil Hamburger
    Neil Hamburger is the alter ego of American comedian Gregg Turkington, known for his deliberately awkward, anti-comedy stand-up persona and offbeat comedy albums.
  • C. Hugh Johnson
    Hugh Johnson was an American soldier, lawyer, and government official best known for directing the National Recovery Administration during the New Deal era.
  • D. Robert Bacher
    Robert Bacher was an American nuclear physicist and key leader in the Manhattan Project who later became a prominent figure in U.S. science policy and administration.
  • E. Jerry Fielding
    Jerry Fielding was an American composer and arranger best known for his distinctive, often darkly atmospheric film and television scores, particularly in collaboration with directors like Clint Eastwood and Sam Peckinpah.
  • 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: Waldo Salt
Triple: [Midnight Cowboy, screenwriter, Waldo Salt]
Generated description
Waldo Salt was an American screenwriter renowned for his Oscar-winning work on films such as "Midnight Cowboy" and "Coming Home."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Waldo Salt
Target entity description: Waldo Salt was an American screenwriter renowned for his Oscar-winning work on films such as "Midnight Cowboy" and "Coming Home."
  • A. Bob Hartley
    Bob Hartley is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach best known for leading the Colorado Avalanche to a Stanley Cup championship and later coaching several NHL teams, including the Atlanta Thrashers and Calgary Flames.
  • B. Neil Hamburger
    Neil Hamburger is the alter ego of American comedian Gregg Turkington, known for his deliberately awkward, anti-comedy stand-up persona and offbeat comedy albums.
  • C. Hugh Johnson
    Hugh Johnson was an American soldier, lawyer, and government official best known for directing the National Recovery Administration during the New Deal era.
  • D. Robert Bacher
    Robert Bacher was an American nuclear physicist and key leader in the Manhattan Project who later became a prominent figure in U.S. science policy and administration.
  • E. Jerry Fielding
    Jerry Fielding was an American composer and arranger best known for his distinctive, often darkly atmospheric film and television scores, particularly in collaboration with directors like Clint Eastwood and Sam Peckinpah.
  • 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_69a88b0bb30c81908ded03b006d29387 completed March 4, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc605cf808190a326e6c78e3f9166 completed March 7, 2026, 6:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae7f379bbc8190b085b82e2e16401e completed March 9, 2026, 8:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae8005a5688190b3ef308b55d377e7 completed March 9, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae80c51b548190b44d6484b7644b1c completed March 9, 2026, 8:11 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:49 p.m.