Triple

T4036667
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kurt Russell E83842 entity
Predicate portrayed P1668 FINISHED
Object R.J. MacReady
R.J. MacReady is the rugged, resourceful helicopter pilot and reluctant hero who leads the fight against a shape-shifting alien in John Carpenter’s 1982 horror film "The Thing."
E409594 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: R.J. MacReady | Statement: [Kurt Russell, portrayed, R.J. MacReady]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R.J. MacReady
Context triple: [Kurt Russell, portrayed, R.J. MacReady]
  • A. Matt Kowalski
    Matt Kowalski is a veteran NASA astronaut and spacewalker featured as a central character in the science fiction film "Gravity."
  • B. James Cole
    James Cole is the time-traveling convict protagonist of the science fiction film and TV series "12 Monkeys," tasked with preventing a devastating global plague.
  • C. Richard Ripley
    Richard Ripley is a wealthy, somewhat hapless businessman who becomes entangled in the criminal schemes and prison-break plot at the center of the film "Out of Sight."
  • D. Carl Ellsworth
    Carl Ellsworth is an American screenwriter known for writing suspense and thriller films such as "Red Eye" and "Disturbia."
  • E. John Anderton
    John Anderton is the troubled chief of a futuristic "Precrime" police unit who becomes a fugitive after being accused of a murder he has yet to commit in the science fiction story Minority Report.
  • 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: R.J. MacReady
Triple: [Kurt Russell, portrayed, R.J. MacReady]
Generated description
R.J. MacReady is the rugged, resourceful helicopter pilot and reluctant hero who leads the fight against a shape-shifting alien in John Carpenter’s 1982 horror film "The Thing."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R.J. MacReady
Target entity description: R.J. MacReady is the rugged, resourceful helicopter pilot and reluctant hero who leads the fight against a shape-shifting alien in John Carpenter’s 1982 horror film "The Thing."
  • A. Matt Kowalski
    Matt Kowalski is a veteran NASA astronaut and spacewalker featured as a central character in the science fiction film "Gravity."
  • B. James Cole
    James Cole is the time-traveling convict protagonist of the science fiction film and TV series "12 Monkeys," tasked with preventing a devastating global plague.
  • C. Richard Ripley
    Richard Ripley is a wealthy, somewhat hapless businessman who becomes entangled in the criminal schemes and prison-break plot at the center of the film "Out of Sight."
  • D. Carl Ellsworth
    Carl Ellsworth is an American screenwriter known for writing suspense and thriller films such as "Red Eye" and "Disturbia."
  • E. John Anderton
    John Anderton is the troubled chief of a futuristic "Precrime" police unit who becomes a fugitive after being accused of a murder he has yet to commit in the science fiction story Minority Report.
  • 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_69aed92f7cf0819098e0539bdcc3767f completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefb349e648190b9f227df4cd76fa0 completed March 9, 2026, 4:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5564436788190aff89ebfeeed6d9b completed March 14, 2026, 12:36 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5572b27c48190989311cef00b5f44 completed March 14, 2026, 12:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b55b333ffc8190a5df8b8d7bffa77f completed March 14, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:36 p.m.