Triple

T23388930
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Trash Fire E593957 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Richard Bates Jr.
Richard Bates Jr. is an American filmmaker known for his darkly comedic and psychologically unsettling horror films.
E1582297 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: Richard Bates Jr. | Statement: [Trash Fire, director, Richard Bates Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Bates Jr.
Context triple: [Trash Fire, director, Richard Bates Jr.]
  • A. Charles Starkweather
    Charles Starkweather was a 1950s American spree killer whose notorious murder rampage with his teenage girlfriend inspired numerous films and fictional characters.
  • B. Gary Starkweather
    Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
  • C. William Holmes
    William Holmes was a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the 1941 biographical war film "Sergeant York."
  • D. Gabriel Harris
    Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
  • E. William Boone
    William Boone is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Boone.
  • 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: Richard Bates Jr.
Triple: [Trash Fire, director, Richard Bates Jr.]
Generated description
Richard Bates Jr. is an American filmmaker known for his darkly comedic and psychologically unsettling horror films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Bates Jr.
Target entity description: Richard Bates Jr. is an American filmmaker known for his darkly comedic and psychologically unsettling horror films.
  • A. Charles Starkweather
    Charles Starkweather was a 1950s American spree killer whose notorious murder rampage with his teenage girlfriend inspired numerous films and fictional characters.
  • B. Gary Starkweather
    Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
  • C. William Holmes
    William Holmes was a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the 1941 biographical war film "Sergeant York."
  • D. Gabriel Harris
    Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
  • E. William Boone
    William Boone is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Boone.
  • 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_69e25d2754fc819085deea939bde60ab completed April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1a499bad88190afca1afb2e3fddb0 completed April 29, 2026, 6:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c5de999488190be021920241b7f25 completed May 19, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c5e7eb7b481908b3cece1823cf785 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, 5:35 p.m.