Triple

T4484304
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Whip Hand E107198 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Ben Roberts
Ben Roberts was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly in the crime and thriller genres.
 E450566 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: Ben Roberts | Statement: [The Whip Hand, screenwriter, Ben Roberts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ben Roberts
Context triple: [The Whip Hand, screenwriter, Ben Roberts]
  • A. Don Roberts
    Don Roberts is a software engineer and author known for his contributions to object-oriented design and refactoring, including work on the influential book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
  • B. Robert C. Roberts
    Robert C. Roberts is a philosopher and psychologist known for his influential work on the philosophy of emotions and Christian psychology.
  • C. David Ray Roberts
    David Ray Roberts is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and current manager, best known for his pivotal stolen base in the 2004 ALCS with the Boston Red Sox and for managing the Los Angeles Dodgers.
  • D. Jon A. McBride
    Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
  • E. John M. Balch
    John M. Balch was an individual significant enough in local history that the city of Balch Springs, Texas, was named in his honor.
  • 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: Ben Roberts
Triple: [The Whip Hand, screenwriter, Ben Roberts]
Generated description
Ben Roberts was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly in the crime and thriller genres.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ben Roberts
Target entity description: Ben Roberts was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly in the crime and thriller genres.
  • A. Don Roberts
    Don Roberts is a software engineer and author known for his contributions to object-oriented design and refactoring, including work on the influential book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
  • B. Robert C. Roberts
    Robert C. Roberts is a philosopher and psychologist known for his influential work on the philosophy of emotions and Christian psychology.
  • C. David Ray Roberts
    David Ray Roberts is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and current manager, best known for his pivotal stolen base in the 2004 ALCS with the Boston Red Sox and for managing the Los Angeles Dodgers.
  • D. Jon A. McBride
    Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
  • E. John M. Balch
    John M. Balch was an individual significant enough in local history that the city of Balch Springs, Texas, was named in his honor.
  • 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_69bd43f84f788190a1383579c4a595be completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd52a54c6c8190a7421bea6e3c00f1 completed March 20, 2026, 1:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdacc9ef8c81909ff2a16cf68844d0 completed March 20, 2026, 8:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdad757394819091d334c12b660b95 completed March 20, 2026, 8:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdadd612a48190b088fe6ac894dbb5 completed March 20, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.