Triple

T3681408
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject What About Bob? E78119 entity
Predicate writer P1360 FINISHED
Object Alvin Sargent
Alvin Sargent was an American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning work on films like "Julia" and "Ordinary People" and for co-writing several "Spider-Man" movies.
E404645 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: Alvin Sargent | Statement: [What About Bob?, writer, Alvin Sargent]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alvin Sargent
Context triple: [What About Bob?, writer, Alvin Sargent]
  • A. Frank Sargent
    Frank Sargent was a prominent Canadian ice hockey administrator best known for his influential leadership within the country’s amateur hockey system.
  • B. Cliff Hagan
    Cliff Hagan is an American Hall of Fame basketball player best known for his scoring prowess with the St. Louis Hawks and later as a player-coach in the ABA.
  • C. Alvin Adams
    Alvin Adams was a 19th-century American entrepreneur best known for founding Adams Express Company, one of the earliest and most influential express shipping firms in the United States.
  • D. Russell Harlan
    Russell Harlan was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic films, including "Witness for the Prosecution," "To Kill a Mockingbird," and "Red River."
  • E. Herschel Daugherty
    Herschel Daugherty was an American film and television director best known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century TV dramas and anthology series.
  • 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: Alvin Sargent
Triple: [What About Bob?, writer, Alvin Sargent]
Generated description
Alvin Sargent was an American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning work on films like "Julia" and "Ordinary People" and for co-writing several "Spider-Man" movies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alvin Sargent
Target entity description: Alvin Sargent was an American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning work on films like "Julia" and "Ordinary People" and for co-writing several "Spider-Man" movies.
  • A. Frank Sargent
    Frank Sargent was a prominent Canadian ice hockey administrator best known for his influential leadership within the country’s amateur hockey system.
  • B. Cliff Hagan
    Cliff Hagan is an American Hall of Fame basketball player best known for his scoring prowess with the St. Louis Hawks and later as a player-coach in the ABA.
  • C. Alvin Adams
    Alvin Adams was a 19th-century American entrepreneur best known for founding Adams Express Company, one of the earliest and most influential express shipping firms in the United States.
  • D. Russell Harlan
    Russell Harlan was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic films, including "Witness for the Prosecution," "To Kill a Mockingbird," and "Red River."
  • E. Herschel Daugherty
    Herschel Daugherty was an American film and television director best known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century TV dramas and anthology series.
  • 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_69ad85e18c1c8190be8aafb227f39f48 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc492aed481909e8986378ad283fc completed March 8, 2026, 6:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b53fd9ce4081908dee7b37946e86ae completed March 14, 2026, 11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5440331908190b7a2f32550c2c1f0 completed March 14, 2026, 11:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5451619d48190bcaa97f079397dcf completed March 14, 2026, 11:23 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.