Triple

T3017989
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Man Who Cheated Himself E82383 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Felix E. Feist
Felix E. Feist was an American film and television director and screenwriter known for his work in mid-20th-century crime dramas and film noir.
E449246 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: Felix E. Feist | Statement: [The Man Who Cheated Himself, director, Felix E. Feist]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Felix E. Feist
Context triple: [The Man Who Cheated Himself, director, Felix E. Feist]
  • A. Fred F. Finklehoffe
    Fred F. Finklehoffe was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films and collaborations with major studios during the 1940s.
  • B. Walter Wolfrum
    Walter Wolfrum was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War II, credited with numerous aerial victories on the Eastern Front.
  • C. Fredric Steinkamp
    Fredric Steinkamp was an American film editor best known for his acclaimed work on major Hollywood productions, including the Oscar-winning epic "Out of Africa."
  • D. Walter Naegle
    Walter Naegle is an American activist and archivist best known as the longtime partner and estate executor of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
  • E. William Sachse
    William Sachse was a 19th-century Texas pioneer and landowner after whom the city of Sachse, Texas, is named.
  • 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: Felix E. Feist
Triple: [The Man Who Cheated Himself, director, Felix E. Feist]
Generated description
Felix E. Feist was an American film and television director and screenwriter known for his work in mid-20th-century crime dramas and film noir.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Felix E. Feist
Target entity description: Felix E. Feist was an American film and television director and screenwriter known for his work in mid-20th-century crime dramas and film noir.
  • A. Fred F. Finklehoffe
    Fred F. Finklehoffe was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films and collaborations with major studios during the 1940s.
  • B. Walter Wolfrum
    Walter Wolfrum was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War II, credited with numerous aerial victories on the Eastern Front.
  • C. Fredric Steinkamp
    Fredric Steinkamp was an American film editor best known for his acclaimed work on major Hollywood productions, including the Oscar-winning epic "Out of Africa."
  • D. Walter Naegle
    Walter Naegle is an American activist and archivist best known as the longtime partner and estate executor of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
  • E. William Sachse
    William Sachse was a 19th-century Texas pioneer and landowner after whom the city of Sachse, Texas, is named.
  • 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_69ad8b1eb53481908c39bbcd1ec104b2 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9a90ea64819080620e60bbd6aa24 completed March 8, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bda3e679a881908f91a36675037d1a completed March 20, 2026, 7:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bda46fa0f08190b02b98fd51d65166 completed March 20, 2026, 7:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bda556d4188190a00d6e6259139c10 completed March 20, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3 p.m.