Triple

T2900945
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bridge of Spies E62650 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object James B. Donovan
James B. Donovan was an American lawyer and negotiator best known for defending Soviet spy Rudolf Abel and orchestrating the Cold War prisoner exchange dramatized in the film "Bridge of Spies."
 E308446 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: James B. Donovan | Statement: [Bridge of Spies, mainCharacter, James B. Donovan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James B. Donovan
Context triple: [Bridge of Spies, mainCharacter, James B. Donovan]
  • A. Lewis Powell
    Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
  • B. William Donovan III
    William Donovan III is the son of American basketball coach Billy Donovan.
  • C. Sidney Sherman
    Sidney Sherman was a Texas Revolution officer and politician best known for leading a volunteer regiment at the Battle of San Jacinto and later serving in the Republic of Texas legislature.
  • D. James P. Gordon
    James P. Gordon was an American physicist and pioneer in quantum electronics and laser science, known for his foundational work on the maser and optical communications.
  • E. Henry J. Friendly
    Henry J. Friendly was a highly influential American federal appellate judge renowned for his intellectual rigor and major contributions to U.S. jurisprudence.
  • 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: James B. Donovan
Triple: [Bridge of Spies, mainCharacter, James B. Donovan]
Generated description
James B. Donovan was an American lawyer and negotiator best known for defending Soviet spy Rudolf Abel and orchestrating the Cold War prisoner exchange dramatized in the film "Bridge of Spies."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James B. Donovan
Target entity description: James B. Donovan was an American lawyer and negotiator best known for defending Soviet spy Rudolf Abel and orchestrating the Cold War prisoner exchange dramatized in the film "Bridge of Spies."
  • A. Lewis Powell
    Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
  • B. William Donovan III
    William Donovan III is the son of American basketball coach Billy Donovan.
  • C. Sidney Sherman
    Sidney Sherman was a Texas Revolution officer and politician best known for leading a volunteer regiment at the Battle of San Jacinto and later serving in the Republic of Texas legislature.
  • D. James P. Gordon
    James P. Gordon was an American physicist and pioneer in quantum electronics and laser science, known for his foundational work on the maser and optical communications.
  • E. Henry J. Friendly
    Henry J. Friendly was a highly influential American federal appellate judge renowned for his intellectual rigor and major contributions to U.S. jurisprudence.
  • 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_69ab4c3e070c8190b78d3d2c005876dd completed March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abe0b261c081909b66b21520b4731b completed March 7, 2026, 8:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b0318f2c908190aa10aa93f8fb139c completed March 10, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b0405be9008190b1a264bc20e794c6 completed March 10, 2026, 4:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b044ad7cd48190b4a3ae143131616e completed March 10, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:10 p.m.