Triple

T3630437
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Horton Hears a Who! E76941 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Jimmy Hayward
Jimmy Hayward is a Canadian animator and film director known for his work on major animated features such as "Horton Hears a Who!" and "Free Birds."
 E374984 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: Jimmy Hayward | Statement: [Horton Hears a Who!, director, Jimmy Hayward]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jimmy Hayward
Context triple: [Horton Hears a Who!, director, Jimmy Hayward]
  • A. Bill Travers
    Bill Travers was a British actor and wildlife conservationist best known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and for co-founding the Born Free Foundation.
  • B. Phil Harris
    Phil Harris was an American bandleader, singer, comedian, and radio personality best known for his wisecracking persona on classic radio shows and his later voice work in Disney animated films.
  • C. Bob Wells
    Bob Wells was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the classic holiday standard "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)."
  • D. Bob Wells
    Bob Wells is a real-life van-dwelling nomad, YouTube personality, and advocate for alternative, minimalist living who appears as himself in the film "Nomadland."
  • E. Cal Henderson
    Cal Henderson is a British software engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CTO of the workplace communication platform Slack.
  • 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: Jimmy Hayward
Triple: [Horton Hears a Who!, director, Jimmy Hayward]
Generated description
Jimmy Hayward is a Canadian animator and film director known for his work on major animated features such as "Horton Hears a Who!" and "Free Birds."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jimmy Hayward
Target entity description: Jimmy Hayward is a Canadian animator and film director known for his work on major animated features such as "Horton Hears a Who!" and "Free Birds."
  • A. Bill Travers
    Bill Travers was a British actor and wildlife conservationist best known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and for co-founding the Born Free Foundation.
  • B. Phil Harris
    Phil Harris was an American bandleader, singer, comedian, and radio personality best known for his wisecracking persona on classic radio shows and his later voice work in Disney animated films.
  • C. Bob Wells
    Bob Wells is a real-life van-dwelling nomad, YouTube personality, and advocate for alternative, minimalist living who appears as himself in the film "Nomadland."
  • D. Bob Wells
    Bob Wells was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the classic holiday standard "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)."
  • E. Cal Henderson
    Cal Henderson is a British software engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CTO of the workplace communication platform Slack.
  • 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_69ad85dc03948190b35b7189e4175bcc completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc300223881909019982ebf194f78 completed March 8, 2026, 6:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b44f12c2608190bd0eb25c9df97ec6 completed March 13, 2026, 5:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b45092464c8190b9ad6db8c8845026 completed March 13, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b450f261548190b5cd667b35453dcb completed March 13, 2026, 6:01 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:23 p.m.