Triple

T2547232
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Bells of San Angelo E57932 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object William Witney
William Witney was an American film director best known for his prolific work on action-packed B-movies and serials, particularly Westerns, during Hollywood’s mid-20th-century studio era.
E277290 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: William Witney | Statement: [The Bells of San Angelo, director, William Witney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Witney
Context triple: [The Bells of San Angelo, director, William Witney]
  • A. Joe E. Brown
    Joe E. Brown was a popular American comedian and film actor of the 1930s and 1940s, known for his wide-mouthed grin and roles in numerous Hollywood comedies.
  • B. Mack Swain
    Mack Swain was an American silent film actor and comedian best known for his frequent collaborations with Charlie Chaplin and his roles in early slapstick comedies.
  • C. Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
    Charles "Buddy" Rogers was an American actor and musician best known as a popular leading man of the late silent and early sound film era, often called "America's Boyfriend."
  • D. Raymond Griffith
    Raymond Griffith was a prominent American silent film comedian and producer known for his sophisticated, understated style and influential work in early Hollywood cinema.
  • E. Andy Devine
    Andy Devine was an American character actor best known for his distinctive raspy voice and roles in numerous Western films and the television series "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok."
  • 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: William Witney
Triple: [The Bells of San Angelo, director, William Witney]
Generated description
William Witney was an American film director best known for his prolific work on action-packed B-movies and serials, particularly Westerns, during Hollywood’s mid-20th-century studio era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Witney
Target entity description: William Witney was an American film director best known for his prolific work on action-packed B-movies and serials, particularly Westerns, during Hollywood’s mid-20th-century studio era.
  • A. Joe E. Brown
    Joe E. Brown was a popular American comedian and film actor of the 1930s and 1940s, known for his wide-mouthed grin and roles in numerous Hollywood comedies.
  • B. Mack Swain
    Mack Swain was an American silent film actor and comedian best known for his frequent collaborations with Charlie Chaplin and his roles in early slapstick comedies.
  • C. Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
    Charles "Buddy" Rogers was an American actor and musician best known as a popular leading man of the late silent and early sound film era, often called "America's Boyfriend."
  • D. Raymond Griffith
    Raymond Griffith was a prominent American silent film comedian and producer known for his sophisticated, understated style and influential work in early Hollywood cinema.
  • E. Andy Devine
    Andy Devine was an American character actor best known for his distinctive raspy voice and roles in numerous Western films and the television series "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok."
  • 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_69ab4a5212d88190b989ce129f2ad87f completed March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd2e672948190bb7fe9b47535a172 completed March 7, 2026, 7:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af5d0e6e188190be190965cc02838e completed March 9, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af5d9dcf608190b580beb10619ab86 completed March 9, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af5e781360819080b4b96942beb17d completed March 9, 2026, 11:57 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.