Triple

T3143580
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Night at the Roxbury E65710 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object John Fortenberry
John Fortenberry is an American film and television director best known for helming the comedy film "A Night at the Roxbury" and working on various popular TV comedies.
 E331728 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: John Fortenberry | Statement: [A Night at the Roxbury, director, John Fortenberry]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Fortenberry
Context triple: [A Night at the Roxbury, director, John Fortenberry]
  • A. Peter Paul Marshall
    Peter Paul Marshall was a 19th-century British painter and civil engineer best known as one of the founding partners of the Arts and Crafts firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
  • B. Ralph J. Roberts
    Ralph J. Roberts was an American businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of Comcast, which he helped grow into one of the largest media and telecommunications companies in the United States.
  • C. Robin Lawford
    Robin Lawford is a member of the prominent Lawford family, related to actor Peter Lawford and connected to the extended Kennedy family.
  • D. Mark Shriver
    Mark Shriver is an American politician, author, and advocate for social justice, known for his work with Save the Children and as a member of the prominent Kennedy family.
  • E. Lester Holt
    Lester Holt is an American television journalist and news anchor best known for anchoring NBC's flagship evening news program and moderating major political debates.
  • 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: John Fortenberry
Triple: [A Night at the Roxbury, director, John Fortenberry]
Generated description
John Fortenberry is an American film and television director best known for helming the comedy film "A Night at the Roxbury" and working on various popular TV comedies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Fortenberry
Target entity description: John Fortenberry is an American film and television director best known for helming the comedy film "A Night at the Roxbury" and working on various popular TV comedies.
  • A. Peter Paul Marshall
    Peter Paul Marshall was a 19th-century British painter and civil engineer best known as one of the founding partners of the Arts and Crafts firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
  • B. Ralph J. Roberts
    Ralph J. Roberts was an American businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of Comcast, which he helped grow into one of the largest media and telecommunications companies in the United States.
  • C. Robin Lawford
    Robin Lawford is a member of the prominent Lawford family, related to actor Peter Lawford and connected to the extended Kennedy family.
  • D. Mark Shriver
    Mark Shriver is an American politician, author, and advocate for social justice, known for his work with Save the Children and as a member of the prominent Kennedy family.
  • E. Lester Holt
    Lester Holt is an American television journalist and news anchor best known for anchoring NBC's flagship evening news program and moderating major political debates.
  • 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_69ad8582f564819088c27e1f96153938 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada59489a88190b0962cef091f4ddb completed March 8, 2026, 4:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b224ed4d748190a2af68bf284110e8 completed March 12, 2026, 2:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b227bc33e881908d43307d51156ec7 completed March 12, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2285e7a5c8190a4e15a9f9b0f0e03 completed March 12, 2026, 2:43 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:05 p.m.