Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Meet John Doe E98972 entity
Predicate plotSummary P264 FINISHED
Object A reporter invents a fictional everyman named John Doe, leading to a nationwide movement that is exploited by a powerful politician.
Meet John Doe is a 1941 Frank Capra drama film that explores media manipulation, populism, and political corruption through the story of an invented everyman who becomes the unwitting symbol of a mass movement.
E434962 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: A reporter invents a fictional everyman named John Doe, leading to a nationwide movement that is exploited by a powerful politician. | Statement: [Meet John Doe, plotSummary, A reporter invents a fictional everyman named John Doe, leading to a nationwide movement that is exploited by a powerful politician.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A reporter invents a fictional everyman named John Doe, leading to a nationwide movement that is exploited by a powerful politician.
Context triple: [Meet John Doe, plotSummary, A reporter invents a fictional everyman named John Doe, leading to a nationwide movement that is exploited by a powerful politician.]
  • A. The Great American Lie
    The Great American Lie is a documentary film that examines economic inequality and the cultural values underpinning the American Dream, directed by filmmaker and activist Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
  • B. Saturday Night Massacre
    The Saturday Night Massacre was the 1973 constitutional crisis during the Watergate scandal in which President Richard Nixon ordered the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox, prompting the resignations of top Justice Department officials.
  • C. Spotlight investigative team
    The Spotlight investigative team is the Boston Globe’s renowned investigative journalism unit best known for its groundbreaking exposés on systemic abuses, including the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal.
  • D. FBI ABSCAM operation
    The FBI ABSCAM operation was a late-1970s undercover sting in which federal agents posed as wealthy Arab investors to expose political corruption among U.S. public officials.
  • E. The Politician
    The Politician is a 17th-century stage play by English dramatist James Shirley, known as one of his notable tragic works exploring court intrigue and moral corruption.
  • 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: A reporter invents a fictional everyman named John Doe, leading to a nationwide movement that is exploited by a powerful politician.
Triple: [Meet John Doe, plotSummary, A reporter invents a fictional everyman named John Doe, leading to a nationwide movement that is exploited by a powerful politician.]
Generated description
Meet John Doe is a 1941 Frank Capra drama film that explores media manipulation, populism, and political corruption through the story of an invented everyman who becomes the unwitting symbol of a mass movement.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A reporter invents a fictional everyman named John Doe, leading to a nationwide movement that is exploited by a powerful politician.
Target entity description: Meet John Doe is a 1941 Frank Capra drama film that explores media manipulation, populism, and political corruption through the story of an invented everyman who becomes the unwitting symbol of a mass movement.
  • A. The Great American Lie
    The Great American Lie is a documentary film that examines economic inequality and the cultural values underpinning the American Dream, directed by filmmaker and activist Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
  • B. Saturday Night Massacre
    The Saturday Night Massacre was the 1973 constitutional crisis during the Watergate scandal in which President Richard Nixon ordered the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox, prompting the resignations of top Justice Department officials.
  • C. Spotlight investigative team
    The Spotlight investigative team is the Boston Globe’s renowned investigative journalism unit best known for its groundbreaking exposés on systemic abuses, including the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal.
  • D. FBI ABSCAM operation
    The FBI ABSCAM operation was a late-1970s undercover sting in which federal agents posed as wealthy Arab investors to expose political corruption among U.S. public officials.
  • E. The Politician
    The Politician is a 17th-century stage play by English dramatist James Shirley, known as one of his notable tragic works exploring court intrigue and moral corruption.
  • 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_69b3454db3708190aeafd814413c4c3d completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b35220fa648190b116e786783a7eba completed March 12, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e512350081908da06038e3080a3e completed March 14, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5e58d77d88190b59e372eeec35195 completed March 14, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5e5fa68c08190a482cb7ea9030515 completed March 14, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:17 p.m.