Triple

T4330128
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film) E96728 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Alfred L. Werker
Alfred L. Werker was an American film director active from the silent era through the 1950s, known for directing crime dramas, mysteries, and studio features in Hollywood.
E833212 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: Alfred L. Werker | Statement: [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film), director, Alfred L. Werker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred L. Werker
Context triple: [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film), director, Alfred L. Werker]
  • A. Alfred P. Boller
    Alfred P. Boller was an American civil engineer known for designing major infrastructure projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Harold L. Volkmer
    Harold L. Volkmer was a longtime Democratic U.S. Representative from Missouri known for his strong advocacy of gun owners’ rights and co-sponsorship of the Firearm Owners Protection Act.
  • C. George R. Volkert
    George R. Volkert was a British aeronautical engineer best known for his key role in designing the Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber used by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
  • D. Julius A. Wolf
    Julius A. Wolf was a criminal defendant whose case, Wolf v. Colorado, became a landmark 1949 U.S. Supreme Court decision on the application of the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule to the states.
  • E. Edward M. Kern
    Edward M. Kern was a 19th-century American topographer and explorer after whom California’s Kern County was named.
  • 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: Alfred L. Werker
Triple: [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film), director, Alfred L. Werker]
Generated description
Alfred L. Werker was an American film director active from the silent era through the 1950s, known for directing crime dramas, mysteries, and studio features in Hollywood.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred L. Werker
Target entity description: Alfred L. Werker was an American film director active from the silent era through the 1950s, known for directing crime dramas, mysteries, and studio features in Hollywood.
  • A. Alfred P. Boller
    Alfred P. Boller was an American civil engineer known for designing major infrastructure projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Harold L. Volkmer
    Harold L. Volkmer was a longtime Democratic U.S. Representative from Missouri known for his strong advocacy of gun owners’ rights and co-sponsorship of the Firearm Owners Protection Act.
  • C. George R. Volkert
    George R. Volkert was a British aeronautical engineer best known for his key role in designing the Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber used by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
  • D. Julius A. Wolf
    Julius A. Wolf was a criminal defendant whose case, Wolf v. Colorado, became a landmark 1949 U.S. Supreme Court decision on the application of the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule to the states.
  • E. Edward M. Kern
    Edward M. Kern was a 19th-century American topographer and explorer after whom California’s Kern County was named.
  • 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_69b34542fd908190b11b08faad8decfd completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3513545fc81909e29de7eae1829f7 completed March 12, 2026, 11:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2571ac8ec8190bf59c2cec5e2e6e2 completed April 5, 2026, 12:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d25889b0f08190a28c5401417fe3cc completed April 5, 2026, 12:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d25977ab988190969ed8ff8eb53ddd completed April 5, 2026, 12:45 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:13 p.m.