Triple

T3474263
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject It Happened One Night E73332 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Walter Connolly
Walter Connolly was an American character actor of the 1930s known for his comic and often blustery supporting roles in Hollywood films.
E363409 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: Walter Connolly | Statement: [It Happened One Night, starring, Walter Connolly]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Connolly
Context triple: [It Happened One Night, starring, Walter Connolly]
  • A. Douglas Clifton Brown
    Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
  • B. Geoffrey Streatfeild
    Geoffrey Streatfeild is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "The Thick of It" and "Spooks."
  • C. Walter Findlay
    Walter Findlay is a central character on the 1970s American sitcom "Maude," known as Maude Findlay's often exasperated but loving husband.
  • D. George Seaton
    George Seaton was an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for films such as "Miracle on 34th Street" and "Airport."
  • E. R. D. W. Connor
    R. D. W. Connor was an American historian and educator who became the first Archivist of the United States, helping to establish the foundations of the National Archives.
  • 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: Walter Connolly
Triple: [It Happened One Night, starring, Walter Connolly]
Generated description
Walter Connolly was an American character actor of the 1930s known for his comic and often blustery supporting roles in Hollywood films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Connolly
Target entity description: Walter Connolly was an American character actor of the 1930s known for his comic and often blustery supporting roles in Hollywood films.
  • A. Douglas Clifton Brown
    Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
  • B. Geoffrey Streatfeild
    Geoffrey Streatfeild is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "The Thick of It" and "Spooks."
  • C. Walter Findlay
    Walter Findlay is a central character on the 1970s American sitcom "Maude," known as Maude Findlay's often exasperated but loving husband.
  • D. George Seaton
    George Seaton was an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for films such as "Miracle on 34th Street" and "Airport."
  • E. R. D. W. Connor
    R. D. W. Connor was an American historian and educator who became the first Archivist of the United States, helping to establish the foundations of the National Archives.
  • 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_69ad85b2fed48190948c8765e453d270 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbb580d4c819080bcc0bccd1e18e2 completed March 8, 2026, 6:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b373b2058081908558bdea4043b051 completed March 13, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b374354c0c8190ba46845904b76340 completed March 13, 2026, 2:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b374ad3bcc8190ac7d6e614eb696fa completed March 13, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:17 p.m.