Triple

T3672981
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject St. Vincent E77921 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Theodore Melfi
Theodore Melfi is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for helming character-driven comedies and dramas such as "Hidden Figures."
E377397 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: Theodore Melfi | Statement: [St. Vincent, director, Theodore Melfi]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore Melfi
Context triple: [St. Vincent, director, Theodore Melfi]
  • A. John Melfi
    John Melfi is an American television and film producer known for his work on acclaimed series such as "Sex and the City," "House of Cards," and "Rome."
  • B. Gregory Mottola
    Gregory Mottola is an American film director and screenwriter best known for directing the comedy films "Superbad" and "Adventureland."
  • C. Blake Snyder
    Blake Snyder was an American screenwriter and influential author of the screenwriting guide "Save the Cat!", known for popularizing a widely used story-structure method in Hollywood.
  • D. Mark Heyman
    Mark Heyman is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing the psychological thriller film "Black Swan."
  • E. Mike Noyce
    Mike Noyce is an American musician and producer best known as a member of the indie folk band Bon Iver.
  • 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: Theodore Melfi
Triple: [St. Vincent, director, Theodore Melfi]
Generated description
Theodore Melfi is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for helming character-driven comedies and dramas such as "Hidden Figures."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore Melfi
Target entity description: Theodore Melfi is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for helming character-driven comedies and dramas such as "Hidden Figures."
  • A. John Melfi
    John Melfi is an American television and film producer known for his work on acclaimed series such as "Sex and the City," "House of Cards," and "Rome."
  • B. Gregory Mottola
    Gregory Mottola is an American film director and screenwriter best known for directing the comedy films "Superbad" and "Adventureland."
  • C. Blake Snyder
    Blake Snyder was an American screenwriter and influential author of the screenwriting guide "Save the Cat!", known for popularizing a widely used story-structure method in Hollywood.
  • D. Mark Heyman
    Mark Heyman is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing the psychological thriller film "Black Swan."
  • E. Mike Noyce
    Mike Noyce is an American musician and producer best known as a member of the indie folk band Bon Iver.
  • 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_69ad85e083008190b2e1b7085fe500bd completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc42f82548190b4d5f0fe7250decb completed March 8, 2026, 6:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b48854a2308190ba6a9fc39929b35c completed March 13, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b48b48c5f48190b9db5f3feca08e0e completed March 13, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4af0410e8819091cb1259d06d60cc completed March 14, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.