Triple

T23339608
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Heavy Metal (film) E591698 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Gerald Potterton
Gerald Potterton was a British–Canadian animator and film director best known for his work on the cult animated anthology film "Heavy Metal" and contributions to classic animation projects.
E1582180 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: Gerald Potterton | Statement: [Heavy Metal (film), director, Gerald Potterton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gerald Potterton
Context triple: [Heavy Metal (film), director, Gerald Potterton]
  • A. Russell Carpenter
    Russell Carpenter is an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer best known for his work on major films such as Titanic and other high-profile Hollywood productions.
  • B. Paul Bogoff
    Paul Bogoff is the birth name of American television and film director Paul Bogart, known for his work on series like "All in the Family" and various acclaimed TV movies.
  • C. Lloyd Dorfman
    Lloyd Dorfman is a British entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the Travelex foreign exchange company and for his major support of the arts.
  • D. Alan Walters
    Alan Walters was a British economist best known for serving as an economic adviser to UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and for his influential work on monetary policy.
  • E. Phil Tippett
    Phil Tippett is an acclaimed American visual effects supervisor and stop-motion animator renowned for his groundbreaking creature and character work on films such as Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and RoboCop.
  • 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: Gerald Potterton
Triple: [Heavy Metal (film), director, Gerald Potterton]
Generated description
Gerald Potterton was a British–Canadian animator and film director best known for his work on the cult animated anthology film "Heavy Metal" and contributions to classic animation projects.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gerald Potterton
Target entity description: Gerald Potterton was a British–Canadian animator and film director best known for his work on the cult animated anthology film "Heavy Metal" and contributions to classic animation projects.
  • A. Russell Carpenter
    Russell Carpenter is an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer best known for his work on major films such as Titanic and other high-profile Hollywood productions.
  • B. Paul Bogoff
    Paul Bogoff is the birth name of American television and film director Paul Bogart, known for his work on series like "All in the Family" and various acclaimed TV movies.
  • C. Lloyd Dorfman
    Lloyd Dorfman is a British entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the Travelex foreign exchange company and for his major support of the arts.
  • D. Alan Walters
    Alan Walters was a British economist best known for serving as an economic adviser to UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and for his influential work on monetary policy.
  • E. Phil Tippett
    Phil Tippett is an acclaimed American visual effects supervisor and stop-motion animator renowned for his groundbreaking creature and character work on films such as Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and RoboCop.
  • 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_69e25d20156c81908c5c53195bd9c738 completed April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f198317f4c8190a557cacb86568d6c completed April 29, 2026, 5:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c5dc838a48190ae85d3125b4d69af completed May 19, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c5e6aa3e48190874573d0f80f2093 completed May 19, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c5eef81e48190b62da26fb8d65223 completed May 19, 2026, 1 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:18 p.m.