Triple

T2791773
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Close Encounters of the Third Kind E61945 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Claude Lacombe
Claude Lacombe is a French scientist and UFO researcher who leads the government’s investigation into alien encounters in the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
E444902 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: Claude Lacombe | Statement: [Close Encounters of the Third Kind, mainCharacter, Claude Lacombe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Claude Lacombe
Context triple: [Close Encounters of the Third Kind, mainCharacter, Claude Lacombe]
  • A. Georges Lacombe
    Georges Lacombe was a French Post-Impressionist painter and sculptor associated with the Nabi group, known for his symbolist and decorative style.
  • B. Ernest Cormier
    Ernest Cormier was a prominent Canadian architect and engineer known for his influential Art Deco designs, including major institutional and governmental buildings in Canada.
  • C. Émile Trelat
    Émile Trelat was a 19th-century French engineer, architect, and politician known for his contributions to civil engineering and his role in the early development of technical education in France.
  • D. Jacques Villon
    Jacques Villon was a French Cubist painter and printmaker known for his innovative use of color and geometric abstraction in early 20th-century art.
  • E. Jean-Luc Vaillant
    Jean-Luc Vaillant is a French software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former chief technology officer of LinkedIn.
  • 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: Claude Lacombe
Triple: [Close Encounters of the Third Kind, mainCharacter, Claude Lacombe]
Generated description
Claude Lacombe is a French scientist and UFO researcher who leads the government’s investigation into alien encounters in the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Claude Lacombe
Target entity description: Claude Lacombe is a French scientist and UFO researcher who leads the government’s investigation into alien encounters in the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
  • A. Georges Lacombe
    Georges Lacombe was a French Post-Impressionist painter and sculptor associated with the Nabi group, known for his symbolist and decorative style.
  • B. Ernest Cormier
    Ernest Cormier was a prominent Canadian architect and engineer known for his influential Art Deco designs, including major institutional and governmental buildings in Canada.
  • C. Émile Trelat
    Émile Trelat was a 19th-century French engineer, architect, and politician known for his contributions to civil engineering and his role in the early development of technical education in France.
  • D. Jacques Villon
    Jacques Villon was a French Cubist painter and printmaker known for his innovative use of color and geometric abstraction in early 20th-century art.
  • E. Jean-Luc Vaillant
    Jean-Luc Vaillant is a French software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former chief technology officer of LinkedIn.
  • 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_69ab4b7f51d881908768300ebd2fbdae completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abddcfe19c81908f94dd449f18a2c2 completed March 7, 2026, 8:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b66b1c9cb881908df6998f752f13d0 completed March 15, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b66cc2f0a081909c3021683ba6c791 completed March 15, 2026, 8:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b66d36218481908dd59c49d3d55b71 completed March 15, 2026, 8:26 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:58 p.m.