Triple

T2326095
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spellbound (1945 film) E48290 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object John Ballantyne
John Ballantyne is the amnesiac patient and central male protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 psychological thriller "Spellbound."
E255052 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: John Ballantyne | Statement: [Spellbound (1945 film), character, John Ballantyne]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Ballantyne
Context triple: [Spellbound (1945 film), character, John Ballantyne]
  • A. Robert Stevenson
    Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • B. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • C. Thomas Fairbairn
    Thomas Fairbairn was a prominent 19th-century British industrialist and art patron known for his leading role in organizing major art exhibitions in Manchester.
  • D. Alexander Kerr
    Alexander Kerr is known primarily as the son of influential American academic and former University of California president Clark Kerr.
  • E. John Scott
    John Scott was a notable historical figure whose legacy is honored through the John Scott Medal, an award recognizing significant contributions to science and the useful arts.
  • 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: John Ballantyne
Triple: [Spellbound (1945 film), character, John Ballantyne]
Generated description
John Ballantyne is the amnesiac patient and central male protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 psychological thriller "Spellbound."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Ballantyne
Target entity description: John Ballantyne is the amnesiac patient and central male protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 psychological thriller "Spellbound."
  • A. Robert Stevenson
    Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • B. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • C. Thomas Fairbairn
    Thomas Fairbairn was a prominent 19th-century British industrialist and art patron known for his leading role in organizing major art exhibitions in Manchester.
  • D. Alexander Kerr
    Alexander Kerr is known primarily as the son of influential American academic and former University of California president Clark Kerr.
  • E. John Scott
    John Scott was a notable historical figure whose legacy is honored through the John Scott Medal, an award recognizing significant contributions to science and the useful arts.
  • 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_69a88aa308a88190b0b86c011fda7fce completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc64b62a08190b5a415769ce42645 completed March 7, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae897004308190bc2e335e9caea2ca completed March 9, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae8ace309c8190b57426d1449de723 completed March 9, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae8b56d8548190aa6a99f3f7d99c3e completed March 9, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:50 p.m.