Triple
T4532373
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Things to Come |
E106326
|
entity |
| Predicate | director |
P255
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Cameron Menzies |
E19580
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: William Cameron Menzies | Statement: [Things to Come, director, William Cameron Menzies]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cameron Menzies Context triple: [Things to Come, director, William Cameron Menzies]
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A.
William Cameron Menzies
chosen
William Cameron Menzies was a pioneering American film producer, director, and especially influential art director and production designer, renowned for shaping the visual style of early Hollywood cinema.
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B.
Stewart Menzies
Stewart Menzies was the head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during World War II, overseeing key intelligence operations including those at Bletchley Park.
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C.
Ken Annakin
Ken Annakin was a British film director known for his work on large-scale adventure and war films, including classics like "Swiss Family Robinson" and "The Longest Day."
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D.
King Vidor
King Vidor was an influential American film director of Hollywood’s Golden Age, known for classics such as "The Big Parade," "The Crowd," and his uncredited work on "The Wizard of Oz."
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E.
Michael Powell
Michael Powell is an American bookseller and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd43f3d6e08190a91824f833d51bbe |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd579f27ac8190ae9a4252109e56e1 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 2:20 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bdd38b19a481908b84b49436517387 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 11:08 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:03 p.m.