Triple

T315409
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Singing Fool E7694 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Alfred A. Cohn
Alfred A. Cohn was an American screenwriter and title writer of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his work on influential films such as The Jazz Singer.
E96039 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: Alfred A. Cohn | Statement: [The Singing Fool, screenwriter, Alfred A. Cohn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred A. Cohn
Context triple: [The Singing Fool, screenwriter, Alfred A. Cohn]
  • A. Harold T. Shapiro
    Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
  • B. Sidney Verba
    Sidney Verba was a prominent American political scientist renowned for his pioneering work on political participation, comparative politics, and civic culture.
  • C. George Engel
    George Engel was a German-American labor activist and anarchist who was executed following the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
  • D. Leonard M. Isitt
    Leonard M. Isitt was a senior Royal New Zealand Air Force officer who represented New Zealand at the formal Japanese surrender ceremony ending World War II.
  • E. Harold Hazen
    Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
  • 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: Alfred A. Cohn
Triple: [The Singing Fool, screenwriter, Alfred A. Cohn]
Generated description
Alfred A. Cohn was an American screenwriter and title writer of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his work on influential films such as The Jazz Singer.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred A. Cohn
Target entity description: Alfred A. Cohn was an American screenwriter and title writer of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his work on influential films such as The Jazz Singer.
  • A. Harold T. Shapiro
    Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
  • B. Sidney Verba
    Sidney Verba was a prominent American political scientist renowned for his pioneering work on political participation, comparative politics, and civic culture.
  • C. George Engel
    George Engel was a German-American labor activist and anarchist who was executed following the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
  • D. Leonard M. Isitt
    Leonard M. Isitt was a senior Royal New Zealand Air Force officer who represented New Zealand at the formal Japanese surrender ceremony ending World War II.
  • E. Harold Hazen
    Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
  • 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_69a2e7e7af7881908890039d6be4e9b8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ea6462148190825acc57f6d2adaf completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d6061508190b6fd3c907107fc63 completed March 3, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a78328882881908d25e2fec0909da6 completed March 4, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7839196fc819097800de8c360cef9 completed March 4, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.