Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Crumb E67876 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Terry Zwigoff
Terry Zwigoff is an American filmmaker best known for his darkly comic and offbeat documentaries and feature films, including the acclaimed documentary "Crumb" and the cult favorite "Ghost World."
E340298 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: Terry Zwigoff | Statement: [Crumb, director, Terry Zwigoff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Terry Zwigoff
Context triple: [Crumb, director, Terry Zwigoff]
  • A. Mick Garris
    Mick Garris is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for his work in the horror genre and for creating and directing numerous Stephen King adaptations for film and television.
  • B. Paul Weitz
    Paul Weitz is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for co-directing "American Pie" and directing films such as "About a Boy" and "In Good Company."
  • C. Vincenzo Natali
    Vincenzo Natali is a Canadian filmmaker best known for directing the cult science fiction horror film "Cube" and other visually inventive genre movies.
  • D. Bruce Weitz
    Bruce Weitz is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the eccentric detective Mick Belker on the television series "Hill Street Blues."
  • E. John Hyams
    John Hyams is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter known for his work in action and horror, including the series "Black Summer" and entries in the "Universal Soldier" franchise.
  • 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: Terry Zwigoff
Triple: [Crumb, director, Terry Zwigoff]
Generated description
Terry Zwigoff is an American filmmaker best known for his darkly comic and offbeat documentaries and feature films, including the acclaimed documentary "Crumb" and the cult favorite "Ghost World."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Terry Zwigoff
Target entity description: Terry Zwigoff is an American filmmaker best known for his darkly comic and offbeat documentaries and feature films, including the acclaimed documentary "Crumb" and the cult favorite "Ghost World."
  • A. Mick Garris
    Mick Garris is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for his work in the horror genre and for creating and directing numerous Stephen King adaptations for film and television.
  • B. Paul Weitz
    Paul Weitz is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for co-directing "American Pie" and directing films such as "About a Boy" and "In Good Company."
  • C. Vincenzo Natali
    Vincenzo Natali is a Canadian filmmaker best known for directing the cult science fiction horror film "Cube" and other visually inventive genre movies.
  • D. Bruce Weitz
    Bruce Weitz is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the eccentric detective Mick Belker on the television series "Hill Street Blues."
  • E. John Hyams
    John Hyams is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter known for his work in action and horror, including the series "Black Summer" and entries in the "Universal Soldier" franchise.
  • 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_69ad858d27348190abb61c280b4c86a9 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adaef29bf48190a9aa3a39f0138428 completed March 8, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b277459d1081909766934ce6a56091 completed March 12, 2026, 8:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2780e41e0819080ddb26668f32838 completed March 12, 2026, 8:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b27bd238a48190b9d13ee8a8bc955d completed March 12, 2026, 8:39 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:08 p.m.