Triple

T4245717
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Searchers E95523 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Frank S. Nugent
Frank S. Nugent was an American screenwriter and former film critic best known for his influential collaborations with director John Ford on classic Westerns.
E485216 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: Frank S. Nugent | Statement: [The Searchers, screenwriter, Frank S. Nugent]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank S. Nugent
Context triple: [The Searchers, screenwriter, Frank S. Nugent]
  • A. John J. Eagan
    John J. Eagan was a New Jersey politician who served as a Democratic U.S. Representative in the early 20th century.
  • B. John T. Flanagan
    John T. Flanagan was an American sculptor best known for designing the Washington quarter, a widely circulated U.S. coin featuring George Washington’s profile.
  • C. Frank D. Gilroy
    Frank D. Gilroy was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Subject Was Roses."
  • D. Patrick H. McCarren
    Patrick H. McCarren was a prominent early 20th-century Brooklyn politician and New York State senator known for his influence in local Democratic Party politics.
  • E. William G. McGowan
    William G. McGowan was an American businessman best known for transforming MCI into a major telecommunications competitor to AT&T and helping to deregulate the U.S. long-distance phone industry.
  • 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: Frank S. Nugent
Triple: [The Searchers, screenwriter, Frank S. Nugent]
Generated description
Frank S. Nugent was an American screenwriter and former film critic best known for his influential collaborations with director John Ford on classic Westerns.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank S. Nugent
Target entity description: Frank S. Nugent was an American screenwriter and former film critic best known for his influential collaborations with director John Ford on classic Westerns.
  • A. John J. Eagan
    John J. Eagan was a New Jersey politician who served as a Democratic U.S. Representative in the early 20th century.
  • B. John T. Flanagan
    John T. Flanagan was an American sculptor best known for designing the Washington quarter, a widely circulated U.S. coin featuring George Washington’s profile.
  • C. Frank D. Gilroy
    Frank D. Gilroy was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Subject Was Roses."
  • D. Patrick H. McCarren
    Patrick H. McCarren was a prominent early 20th-century Brooklyn politician and New York State senator known for his influence in local Democratic Party politics.
  • E. William G. McGowan
    William G. McGowan was an American businessman best known for transforming MCI into a major telecommunications competitor to AT&T and helping to deregulate the U.S. long-distance phone industry.
  • 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_69b3453d91548190b4d4ef8fe52aa2ac completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34e8db5bc8190873c5ae3753aaa58 completed March 12, 2026, 11:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be89b9fcbc8190868b8d0584e94118 completed March 21, 2026, 12:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be8b54b7648190a32236301384a54f completed March 21, 2026, 12:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be8ba6dc4c81909a64f409bd18aa63 completed March 21, 2026, 12:14 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:05 p.m.