Triple

T4484392
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Dove (1927 film) E107200 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Roland West
Roland West was an American film director of the silent and early sound era, best known for his atmospheric crime dramas and for his association with the 1932 murder scandal involving actress Thelma Todd.
E446698 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: Roland West | Statement: [The Dove (1927 film), director, Roland West]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roland West
Context triple: [The Dove (1927 film), director, Roland West]
  • A. Roland Williams
    Roland Williams is a former NFL tight end best known for his role on the high-powered St. Louis Rams "Greatest Show on Turf" offense that won Super Bowl XXXIV.
  • B. Roland Anderson
    Roland Anderson was an American art director known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s, earning multiple Academy Award nominations for his production design.
  • C. Roland Young
    Roland Young was a British-born character actor best known for his urbane, often bemused comic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, including the "Topper" series.
  • D. Roland Totheroh
    Roland Totheroh was an American cinematographer best known for his long collaboration with Charlie Chaplin, shaping the visual style of many of Chaplin’s classic films.
  • E. Arvin Brown
    Arvin Brown is an American theatre and television director best known for his long tenure leading and shaping the artistic vision of New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre.
  • 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: Roland West
Triple: [The Dove (1927 film), director, Roland West]
Generated description
Roland West was an American film director of the silent and early sound era, best known for his atmospheric crime dramas and for his association with the 1932 murder scandal involving actress Thelma Todd.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roland West
Target entity description: Roland West was an American film director of the silent and early sound era, best known for his atmospheric crime dramas and for his association with the 1932 murder scandal involving actress Thelma Todd.
  • A. Roland Williams
    Roland Williams is a former NFL tight end best known for his role on the high-powered St. Louis Rams "Greatest Show on Turf" offense that won Super Bowl XXXIV.
  • B. Roland Anderson
    Roland Anderson was an American art director known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s, earning multiple Academy Award nominations for his production design.
  • C. Roland Young
    Roland Young was a British-born character actor best known for his urbane, often bemused comic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, including the "Topper" series.
  • D. Roland Totheroh
    Roland Totheroh was an American cinematographer best known for his long collaboration with Charlie Chaplin, shaping the visual style of many of Chaplin’s classic films.
  • E. Arvin Brown
    Arvin Brown is an American theatre and television director best known for his long tenure leading and shaping the artistic vision of New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre.
  • 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_69bd679792f48190a19ce4ab91cab3bc completed March 20, 2026, 3:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bd6a1e07208190aab48ee3e7b7728a completed March 20, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bd6a8d928c8190b2208431df458863 completed March 20, 2026, 3:41 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.