Triple

T2340592
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Dam Busters (1955 film) E45016 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object R. C. Sherriff
R. C. Sherriff was an English playwright and screenwriter best known for his World War I play "Journey's End" and his work on several notable British films.
E259172 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: R. C. Sherriff | Statement: [The Dam Busters (1955 film), screenwriter, R. C. Sherriff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. C. Sherriff
Context triple: [The Dam Busters (1955 film), screenwriter, R. C. Sherriff]
  • A. J. B. Priestley
    J. B. Priestley was a prominent 20th-century English novelist, playwright, and social commentator, best known for works such as "An Inspector Calls."
  • B. John Osborne
    John Osborne was a prominent British playwright and screenwriter, best known for his groundbreaking play "Look Back in Anger" and his influential role in the "Angry Young Men" movement in postwar British theatre.
  • C. Terence Rattigan
    Terence Rattigan was a prominent 20th-century British playwright known for his finely crafted, emotionally restrained dramas such as "The Winslow Boy" and "The Browning Version."
  • D. George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his sharp wit, social commentary, and works such as "Pygmalion" and "Man and Superman."
  • E. Sidney Howard
    Sidney Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting Margaret Mitchell’s novel into the Academy Award–winning screenplay for the film "Gone with the Wind."
  • 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: R. C. Sherriff
Triple: [The Dam Busters (1955 film), screenwriter, R. C. Sherriff]
Generated description
R. C. Sherriff was an English playwright and screenwriter best known for his World War I play "Journey's End" and his work on several notable British films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. C. Sherriff
Target entity description: R. C. Sherriff was an English playwright and screenwriter best known for his World War I play "Journey's End" and his work on several notable British films.
  • A. J. B. Priestley
    J. B. Priestley was a prominent 20th-century English novelist, playwright, and social commentator, best known for works such as "An Inspector Calls."
  • B. John Osborne
    John Osborne was a prominent British playwright and screenwriter, best known for his groundbreaking play "Look Back in Anger" and his influential role in the "Angry Young Men" movement in postwar British theatre.
  • C. Terence Rattigan
    Terence Rattigan was a prominent 20th-century British playwright known for his finely crafted, emotionally restrained dramas such as "The Winslow Boy" and "The Browning Version."
  • D. George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his sharp wit, social commentary, and works such as "Pygmalion" and "Man and Superman."
  • E. Sidney Howard
    Sidney Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting Margaret Mitchell’s novel into the Academy Award–winning screenplay for the film "Gone with the Wind."
  • 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_69a88917935081909b755dbf38e81024 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc6abf1688190b7c404de0979149a completed March 7, 2026, 6:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae961fd8748190a82ca4c4b840d9f6 completed March 9, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae980425b0819092477f5cf9816d65 completed March 9, 2026, 9:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae9bef58f881908161d143369ba11a completed March 9, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:52 p.m.