Triple

T2459577
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Soldier's Story E54498 entity
Predicate starredActor P5563 FINISHED
Object Robert Townsend
Robert Townsend is an American actor, director, and filmmaker known for his influential work in African-American cinema, including films like "Hollywood Shuffle" and "The Five Heartbeats."
E268044 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: Robert Townsend | Statement: [A Soldier's Story, starredActor, Robert Townsend]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Townsend
Context triple: [A Soldier's Story, starredActor, Robert Townsend]
  • A. Norman Lloyd
    Norman Lloyd was an American actor, producer, and director whose career in film, television, and theater spanned more than eight decades.
  • B. Robert Allen
    Robert Allen was an American film actor active in the 1930s, best known for his roles in Westerns and crime dramas.
  • C. Don Hahn
    Don Hahn is an American film producer best known for overseeing several of Disney’s most acclaimed animated features, including Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King.
  • D. Andrew Form
    Andrew Form is an American film and television producer best known as the co-founder of Platinum Dunes and for producing popular horror and thriller franchises such as The Purge.
  • E. Kevin Kiner
    Kevin Kiner is an American composer best known for his prolific work on film and television scores, including major franchises like Star Wars and DC Comics adaptations.
  • 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: Robert Townsend
Triple: [A Soldier's Story, starredActor, Robert Townsend]
Generated description
Robert Townsend is an American actor, director, and filmmaker known for his influential work in African-American cinema, including films like "Hollywood Shuffle" and "The Five Heartbeats."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Townsend
Target entity description: Robert Townsend is an American actor, director, and filmmaker known for his influential work in African-American cinema, including films like "Hollywood Shuffle" and "The Five Heartbeats."
  • A. Norman Lloyd
    Norman Lloyd was an American actor, producer, and director whose career in film, television, and theater spanned more than eight decades.
  • B. Robert Allen
    Robert Allen was an American film actor active in the 1930s, best known for his roles in Westerns and crime dramas.
  • C. Don Hahn
    Don Hahn is an American film producer best known for overseeing several of Disney’s most acclaimed animated features, including Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King.
  • D. Andrew Form
    Andrew Form is an American film and television producer best known as the co-founder of Platinum Dunes and for producing popular horror and thriller franchises such as The Purge.
  • E. Kevin Kiner
    Kevin Kiner is an American composer best known for his prolific work on film and television scores, including major franchises like Star Wars and DC Comics adaptations.
  • 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_69ab49dee84c819096b50a0049c347ac completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd10a35f88190b102a2cb5c88146e completed March 7, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aef0cff4248190832f75ce36a357e2 completed March 9, 2026, 4:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aef186935c81909301659a96e1a4e2 completed March 9, 2026, 4:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aef8272668819084626e890a49e1b3 completed March 9, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.