Triple

T3884270
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The 39 Steps E92900 entity
Predicate cinematographer P1953 FINISHED
Object Bernard Knowles
Bernard Knowles was a British cinematographer and film director best known for his work on several classic Alfred Hitchcock films and later for directing features and television in the mid-20th century.
E394445 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: Bernard Knowles | Statement: [The 39 Steps, cinematographer, Bernard Knowles]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard Knowles
Context triple: [The 39 Steps, cinematographer, Bernard Knowles]
  • A. Dudley Nichols
    Dudley Nichols was an American screenwriter and director best known for his prolific work in Hollywood’s Golden Age, including his Academy Award-winning script for "The Informer."
  • B. George Scott
    George Scott was a power-hitting first baseman and three-time All-Star known for his strong defense and key role with the Boston Red Sox in the late 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. Rupert Baxter
    Rupert Baxter is a recurring character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, known as the hyper-efficient, suspicious former secretary whose attempts to impose order often lead to comic chaos.
  • D. Ross Harrison
    Ross Harrison was a pioneering American biologist and anatomist best known for developing the first successful tissue culture techniques, which laid the groundwork for modern cell biology.
  • E. John Paddy Carstairs
    John Paddy Carstairs was a British film director and screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century comedies, including several films starring Norman Wisdom.
  • 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: Bernard Knowles
Triple: [The 39 Steps, cinematographer, Bernard Knowles]
Generated description
Bernard Knowles was a British cinematographer and film director best known for his work on several classic Alfred Hitchcock films and later for directing features and television in the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard Knowles
Target entity description: Bernard Knowles was a British cinematographer and film director best known for his work on several classic Alfred Hitchcock films and later for directing features and television in the mid-20th century.
  • A. Dudley Nichols
    Dudley Nichols was an American screenwriter and director best known for his prolific work in Hollywood’s Golden Age, including his Academy Award-winning script for "The Informer."
  • B. George Scott
    George Scott was a power-hitting first baseman and three-time All-Star known for his strong defense and key role with the Boston Red Sox in the late 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. Rupert Baxter
    Rupert Baxter is a recurring character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, known as the hyper-efficient, suspicious former secretary whose attempts to impose order often lead to comic chaos.
  • D. Ross Harrison
    Ross Harrison was a pioneering American biologist and anatomist best known for developing the first successful tissue culture techniques, which laid the groundwork for modern cell biology.
  • E. John Paddy Carstairs
    John Paddy Carstairs was a British film director and screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century comedies, including several films starring Norman Wisdom.
  • 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_69aed9697de0819087c2559295ff3d12 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeec9029908190a7b36a3827734db1 completed March 9, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5125bee048190ba7553797e9fd254 completed March 14, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b512e3721c8190accd26499191c153 completed March 14, 2026, 7:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b513618b888190acda94dcc91d24d2 completed March 14, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:20 p.m.