Triple

T2326121
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Omen (1976 film) E48291 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object David Seltzer
David Seltzer is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing the horror classic "The Omen" (1976) and for his work on films such as "Lucas" and "Punchline."
E257112 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: David Seltzer | Statement: [The Omen (1976 film), screenwriter, David Seltzer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Seltzer
Context triple: [The Omen (1976 film), screenwriter, David Seltzer]
  • A. Jerry Schatzberg
    Jerry Schatzberg is an American photographer and film director known for his influential work in 1960s music photography and for directing acclaimed films such as "Panic in Needle Park" and "Scarecrow."
  • B. Richard Langer
    Richard Langer is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the available information.
  • C. Michael C. Gross
    Michael C. Gross was an American film producer and art director best known for his work on the Ghostbusters franchise and other popular comedies of the 1980s and early 1990s.
  • D. Tom Benedek
    Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
  • E. Robert Towne
    Robert Towne is an acclaimed American screenwriter and director best known for writing the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Chinatown" and contributing to several other landmark films of the New Hollywood era.
  • 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: David Seltzer
Triple: [The Omen (1976 film), screenwriter, David Seltzer]
Generated description
David Seltzer is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing the horror classic "The Omen" (1976) and for his work on films such as "Lucas" and "Punchline."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Seltzer
Target entity description: David Seltzer is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing the horror classic "The Omen" (1976) and for his work on films such as "Lucas" and "Punchline."
  • A. Jerry Schatzberg
    Jerry Schatzberg is an American photographer and film director known for his influential work in 1960s music photography and for directing acclaimed films such as "Panic in Needle Park" and "Scarecrow."
  • B. Richard Langer
    Richard Langer is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the available information.
  • C. Michael C. Gross
    Michael C. Gross was an American film producer and art director best known for his work on the Ghostbusters franchise and other popular comedies of the 1980s and early 1990s.
  • D. Tom Benedek
    Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
  • E. Robert Towne
    Robert Towne is an acclaimed American screenwriter and director best known for writing the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Chinatown" and contributing to several other landmark films of the New Hollywood era.
  • 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_69ae9615f000819092f9dc4700998b25 completed March 9, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae96c5a6308190b970ec78984a4e8a completed March 9, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae9728ebc081908e00e318bcd60e57 completed March 9, 2026, 9:47 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:50 p.m.