Triple

T4033377
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film) E83766 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Tay Garnett
Tay Garnett was an American film director best known for his work in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, including notable film noir and adventure titles.
E417748 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: Tay Garnett | Statement: [The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film), director, Tay Garnett]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tay Garnett
Context triple: [The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film), director, Tay Garnett]
  • A. Mervyn LeRoy
    Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer known for his influential work in classic Hollywood cinema, including a key role in bringing "The Wizard of Oz" to the screen.
  • B. Allan Dwan
    Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canadian-born American film director and producer whose prolific career spanned the silent and early sound eras of Hollywood cinema.
  • C. Clarence Brown
    Clarence Brown was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s silent and early sound eras, directing classics such as "Anna Christie," "National Velvet," and several Greta Garbo films.
  • D. Charles Vidor
    Charles Vidor was a Hungarian-American film director best known for classic Hollywood movies such as "Gilda" and other major studio productions of the 1940s and 1950s.
  • E. George Sidney
    George Sidney was an American film director best known for his lavish MGM musicals and comedies during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics like "Anchors Aweigh" and "Show Boat."
  • 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: Tay Garnett
Triple: [The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film), director, Tay Garnett]
Generated description
Tay Garnett was an American film director best known for his work in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, including notable film noir and adventure titles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tay Garnett
Target entity description: Tay Garnett was an American film director best known for his work in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, including notable film noir and adventure titles.
  • A. Mervyn LeRoy
    Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer known for his influential work in classic Hollywood cinema, including a key role in bringing "The Wizard of Oz" to the screen.
  • B. Allan Dwan
    Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canadian-born American film director and producer whose prolific career spanned the silent and early sound eras of Hollywood cinema.
  • C. Clarence Brown
    Clarence Brown was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s silent and early sound eras, directing classics such as "Anna Christie," "National Velvet," and several Greta Garbo films.
  • D. Charles Vidor
    Charles Vidor was a Hungarian-American film director best known for classic Hollywood movies such as "Gilda" and other major studio productions of the 1940s and 1950s.
  • E. George Sidney
    George Sidney was an American film director best known for his lavish MGM musicals and comedies during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics like "Anchors Aweigh" and "Show Boat."
  • 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_69aed92e29ac819080f7a98b594fec05 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefb108fc0819080c8f41da2e558e0 completed March 9, 2026, 4:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b57f15f0088190b2ec453183f0ca7f completed March 14, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5804d3f488190b6826dfd50b7126d completed March 14, 2026, 3:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b580a0be508190b0410d2de905da71 completed March 14, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:36 p.m.