Triple

T3971073
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject North by Northwest E92335 entity
Predicate portraysCharacter P1668 FINISHED
Object James Mason as Phillip Vandamm
James Mason as Phillip Vandamm is the suave, calculating villain and foreign spy mastermind in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller "North by Northwest."
E404532 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: James Mason as Phillip Vandamm | Statement: [North by Northwest, portraysCharacter, James Mason as Phillip Vandamm]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Mason as Phillip Vandamm
Context triple: [North by Northwest, portraysCharacter, James Mason as Phillip Vandamm]
  • A. Jean-Claude Casanova
    Jean-Claude Casanova is a French economist, intellectual, and public commentator known for his work on liberal thought, economic policy, and his role in shaping contemporary French political debate.
  • B. Miguel Ferrer
    Miguel Ferrer was an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in film and television, including notable performances in projects like "RoboCop," "Twin Peaks," and "NCIS: Los Angeles."
  • C. Abraham Van Helsing
    Abraham Van Helsing is a wise and determined Dutch professor and vampire hunter who leads the fight against Count Dracula in Bram Stoker’s classic Gothic novel.
  • D. Michael Cage
    Michael Cage is a former American professional basketball player and dominant rebounder who starred in college before enjoying a long NBA career primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.
  • E. Walter Varney
    Walter Varney was an early American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur who founded airlines that later evolved into major U.S. carriers such as United Airlines and Continental Airlines.
  • 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: James Mason as Phillip Vandamm
Triple: [North by Northwest, portraysCharacter, James Mason as Phillip Vandamm]
Generated description
James Mason as Phillip Vandamm is the suave, calculating villain and foreign spy mastermind in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller "North by Northwest."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Mason as Phillip Vandamm
Target entity description: James Mason as Phillip Vandamm is the suave, calculating villain and foreign spy mastermind in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller "North by Northwest."
  • A. Jean-Claude Casanova
    Jean-Claude Casanova is a French economist, intellectual, and public commentator known for his work on liberal thought, economic policy, and his role in shaping contemporary French political debate.
  • B. Miguel Ferrer
    Miguel Ferrer was an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in film and television, including notable performances in projects like "RoboCop," "Twin Peaks," and "NCIS: Los Angeles."
  • C. Abraham Van Helsing
    Abraham Van Helsing is a wise and determined Dutch professor and vampire hunter who leads the fight against Count Dracula in Bram Stoker’s classic Gothic novel.
  • D. Michael Cage
    Michael Cage is a former American professional basketball player and dominant rebounder who starred in college before enjoying a long NBA career primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.
  • E. Walter Varney
    Walter Varney was an early American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur who founded airlines that later evolved into major U.S. carriers such as United Airlines and Continental Airlines.
  • 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_69aed96624188190ac8c45bb57ab72b5 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aef995d27881908b24a5b2ef57455f completed March 9, 2026, 4:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5400b75d081909b8e4840b15d19f1 completed March 14, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b540eb53788190aa281ee38edc1729 completed March 14, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b541a55cb081909ec1f87a7553b6f2 completed March 14, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:32 p.m.