Triple

T23339786
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Taking Lives E591701 entity
Predicate portraysCharacter P1668 FINISHED
Object Ethan Hawke as James Costa
Ethan Hawke as James Costa is the character played by Ethan Hawke, a seemingly helpful art dealer who becomes a key figure in the psychological thriller film "Taking Lives."
E1581738 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: Ethan Hawke as James Costa | Statement: [Taking Lives, portraysCharacter, Ethan Hawke as James Costa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ethan Hawke as James Costa
Context triple: [Taking Lives, portraysCharacter, Ethan Hawke as James Costa]
  • A. Ethan Hawke as John Harding
    Ethan Hawke as John Harding is the central male character in the romantic comedy film "Maggie’s Plan," portraying a conflicted academic whose relationships drive much of the story’s emotional and comedic tension.
  • B. Matt Dillon as Ethan Burke
    Matt Dillon as Ethan Burke is the central Secret Service agent protagonist in the mystery–sci-fi television series "Wayward Pines," whose investigation into a small town uncovers disturbing and surreal secrets.
  • C. Oscar Isaac as Nathan Bateman
    Oscar Isaac as Nathan Bateman is the intense, reclusive tech billionaire and AI visionary he portrays in the science fiction film "Ex Machina."
  • D. Ryan Gosling as Stephen Meyers
    Ryan Gosling as Stephen Meyers portrays an idealistic yet increasingly compromised young political strategist navigating moral ambiguity in the film "The Ides of March."
  • E. Edward Norton as Jack Teller
    Edward Norton as Jack Teller refers to Norton's portrayal of a cunning, duplicitous young thief who partners with Robert De Niro's veteran safecracker in the 2001 heist film "The Score."
  • 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: Ethan Hawke as James Costa
Triple: [Taking Lives, portraysCharacter, Ethan Hawke as James Costa]
Generated description
Ethan Hawke as James Costa is the character played by Ethan Hawke, a seemingly helpful art dealer who becomes a key figure in the psychological thriller film "Taking Lives."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ethan Hawke as James Costa
Target entity description: Ethan Hawke as James Costa is the character played by Ethan Hawke, a seemingly helpful art dealer who becomes a key figure in the psychological thriller film "Taking Lives."
  • A. Ethan Hawke as John Harding
    Ethan Hawke as John Harding is the central male character in the romantic comedy film "Maggie’s Plan," portraying a conflicted academic whose relationships drive much of the story’s emotional and comedic tension.
  • B. Matt Dillon as Ethan Burke
    Matt Dillon as Ethan Burke is the central Secret Service agent protagonist in the mystery–sci-fi television series "Wayward Pines," whose investigation into a small town uncovers disturbing and surreal secrets.
  • C. Oscar Isaac as Nathan Bateman
    Oscar Isaac as Nathan Bateman is the intense, reclusive tech billionaire and AI visionary he portrays in the science fiction film "Ex Machina."
  • D. Ryan Gosling as Stephen Meyers
    Ryan Gosling as Stephen Meyers portrays an idealistic yet increasingly compromised young political strategist navigating moral ambiguity in the film "The Ides of March."
  • E. Edward Norton as Jack Teller
    Edward Norton as Jack Teller refers to Norton's portrayal of a cunning, duplicitous young thief who partners with Robert De Niro's veteran safecracker in the 2001 heist film "The Score."
  • 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_6a0c4cb44540819093c6d899dd17347d completed May 19, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c4ef9dcc48190b0c0ca52555f5490 completed May 19, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c506b25ec819084b9522fa827abe7 completed May 19, 2026, 11:58 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:18 p.m.