Triple

T4623491
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Midnight (1939 film) E101040 entity
Predicate storyBy P1955 FINISHED
Object Franz Schulz
Franz Schulz was a German-born screenwriter and playwright known for his work on European and Hollywood films in the early 20th century.
E457006 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: Franz Schulz | Statement: [Midnight (1939 film), storyBy, Franz Schulz]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Franz Schulz
Context triple: [Midnight (1939 film), storyBy, Franz Schulz]
  • A. Edgar Schmued
    Edgar Schmued was an aeronautical engineer best known as the chief designer of several iconic World War II and early jet-era fighter aircraft for North American Aviation.
  • B. Herman Glogauer
    Herman Glogauer is a bombastic Hollywood studio head character in the play "Once in a Lifetime," embodying the excess and absurdity of early 20th-century film industry moguls.
  • C. Arthur Franz
    Arthur Franz was an American film and television actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his roles in science fiction and war movies.
  • D. Karl Grobben
    Karl Grobben was an Austrian zoologist known for his influential work in animal classification, including helping to establish major groups such as the Deuterostomia.
  • E. Thomas Braun
    Thomas Braun is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different professions, without a single universally recognized primary bearer.
  • 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: Franz Schulz
Triple: [Midnight (1939 film), storyBy, Franz Schulz]
Generated description
Franz Schulz was a German-born screenwriter and playwright known for his work on European and Hollywood films in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Franz Schulz
Target entity description: Franz Schulz was a German-born screenwriter and playwright known for his work on European and Hollywood films in the early 20th century.
  • A. Edgar Schmued
    Edgar Schmued was an aeronautical engineer best known as the chief designer of several iconic World War II and early jet-era fighter aircraft for North American Aviation.
  • B. Herman Glogauer
    Herman Glogauer is a bombastic Hollywood studio head character in the play "Once in a Lifetime," embodying the excess and absurdity of early 20th-century film industry moguls.
  • C. Arthur Franz
    Arthur Franz was an American film and television actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his roles in science fiction and war movies.
  • D. Karl Grobben
    Karl Grobben was an Austrian zoologist known for his influential work in animal classification, including helping to establish major groups such as the Deuterostomia.
  • E. Thomas Braun
    Thomas Braun is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different professions, without a single universally recognized primary bearer.
  • 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_69bd43d0497c8190ac23c65c5804846a completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5a053d38819097b3ecbc06aa6e4d completed March 20, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfaa069388190b6482315708b85c2 completed March 21, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfb9422e48190819d5d99e72e8854 completed March 21, 2026, 1:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfc6ac91c819090776365d3dc05d4 completed March 21, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:12 p.m.