Triple

T4422594
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film) E95136 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Sidney Lanfield
Sidney Lanfield was an American film and television director best known for his work on Hollywood comedies and genre films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
 E452634 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: Sidney Lanfield | Statement: [The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film), director, Sidney Lanfield]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sidney Lanfield
Context triple: [The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film), director, Sidney Lanfield]
  • A. Sidney Luft
    Sidney Luft was an American show business figure and film producer best known as the husband and manager of Judy Garland, helping to revive her career in the 1950s.
  • B. Sidney Lee
    Sidney Lee was a British biographer and literary scholar best known for his extensive work on the Dictionary of National Biography and his influential studies of William Shakespeare.
  • C. Cecil Irwin
    Cecil Irwin was an English professional footballer and long-serving right-back for Sunderland AFC during the mid-20th century.
  • D. Victor A. Crutchley
    Victor A. Crutchley was a British Royal Navy admiral and Victoria Cross recipient who served with distinction in both World Wars.
  • E. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • 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: Sidney Lanfield
Triple: [The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film), director, Sidney Lanfield]
Generated description
Sidney Lanfield was an American film and television director best known for his work on Hollywood comedies and genre films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sidney Lanfield
Target entity description: Sidney Lanfield was an American film and television director best known for his work on Hollywood comedies and genre films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • A. Sidney Luft
    Sidney Luft was an American show business figure and film producer best known as the husband and manager of Judy Garland, helping to revive her career in the 1950s.
  • B. Sidney Lee
    Sidney Lee was a British biographer and literary scholar best known for his extensive work on the Dictionary of National Biography and his influential studies of William Shakespeare.
  • C. Cecil Irwin
    Cecil Irwin was an English professional footballer and long-serving right-back for Sunderland AFC during the mid-20th century.
  • D. Victor A. Crutchley
    Victor A. Crutchley was a British Royal Navy admiral and Victoria Cross recipient who served with distinction in both World Wars.
  • E. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • 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_69b3453a36908190b95a79a297ca083c completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3554a0e7c8190b704d00d07b1857d completed March 13, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdc532cd9c8190bb0763f5b78ed32f completed March 20, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdc9f5c524819084be0a744d3dc73a completed March 20, 2026, 10:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdca5a25dc81909ce6294b747e1e81 completed March 20, 2026, 10:29 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:30 p.m.