Triple

T4559768
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Company Men E120563 entity
Predicate portraysCharacter P1668 FINISHED
Object Chris Cooper as Phil Woodward
Chris Cooper as Phil Woodward is a portrayal of a seasoned, high-ranking corporate executive whose life unravels after a layoff in the drama film "The Company Men."
E452264 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: Chris Cooper as Phil Woodward | Statement: [The Company Men, portraysCharacter, Chris Cooper as Phil Woodward]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chris Cooper as Phil Woodward
Context triple: [The Company Men, portraysCharacter, Chris Cooper as Phil Woodward]
  • A. Fred Ward as John Anglin
    Fred Ward as John Anglin is the actor’s portrayal of one of the real-life inmate escapees in the 1979 prison drama film "Escape from Alcatraz."
  • B. Joe Foster
    Joe Foster is a British entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the global sportswear brand Reebok.
  • C. Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman
    Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman is the comedic portrayal of a middle-aged Manhattan publishing executive whose wandering eye and vivid fantasies are tested by temptation in the classic film "The Seven Year Itch."
  • D. Frank Nugent in The Negotiator
    Frank Nugent in *The Negotiator* is a supporting character portrayed by David Morse in the 1998 action-thriller film about a police hostage negotiator framed for corruption.
  • E. George Cooper
    George Cooper was an American character actor active in the silent and early sound film era, known for his supporting roles in numerous 1920s motion pictures.
  • 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: Chris Cooper as Phil Woodward
Triple: [The Company Men, portraysCharacter, Chris Cooper as Phil Woodward]
Generated description
Chris Cooper as Phil Woodward is a portrayal of a seasoned, high-ranking corporate executive whose life unravels after a layoff in the drama film "The Company Men."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chris Cooper as Phil Woodward
Target entity description: Chris Cooper as Phil Woodward is a portrayal of a seasoned, high-ranking corporate executive whose life unravels after a layoff in the drama film "The Company Men."
  • A. Fred Ward as John Anglin
    Fred Ward as John Anglin is the actor’s portrayal of one of the real-life inmate escapees in the 1979 prison drama film "Escape from Alcatraz."
  • B. Joe Foster
    Joe Foster is a British entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the global sportswear brand Reebok.
  • C. Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman
    Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman is the comedic portrayal of a middle-aged Manhattan publishing executive whose wandering eye and vivid fantasies are tested by temptation in the classic film "The Seven Year Itch."
  • D. Frank Nugent in The Negotiator
    Frank Nugent in *The Negotiator* is a supporting character portrayed by David Morse in the 1998 action-thriller film about a police hostage negotiator framed for corruption.
  • E. George Cooper
    George Cooper is the fictional husband character in the classic radio and television sitcom "My Favorite Husband," known for his humorous domestic adventures with his wife Liz.
  • 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_69bd4636f1648190a701445c2fcd9c17 completed March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd582b871c8190be0b70c76d639000 completed March 20, 2026, 2:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdc593eaf881908a9043366230b391 completed March 20, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdc5f0b52c8190bbfa2a6a22d56725 completed March 20, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdc63b1e0881908f861f7c9c5ce3ac completed March 20, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:09 p.m.