Triple

T4709910
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hammer Film Productions E104482 entity
Predicate notableDirectorCollaborator P45033 FINISHED
Object John Gilling
John Gilling was a British film director and screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century horror and thriller films, particularly for Hammer Film Productions.
E464799 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: John Gilling | Statement: [Hammer Film Productions, notableDirectorCollaborator, John Gilling]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Gilling
Context triple: [Hammer Film Productions, notableDirectorCollaborator, John Gilling]
  • A. Jimmy Sangster
    Jimmy Sangster was a British screenwriter and director best known for his influential work on Hammer Films’ classic horror movies in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • B. Terence Fisher
    Terence Fisher was a British film director best known for his influential work on gothic horror films for Hammer Film Productions in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • C. Granville Barker
    Granville Barker was an influential early 20th-century English actor, director, and playwright known for his innovative staging and advocacy of modern drama.
  • D. John Paddy Carstairs
    John Paddy Carstairs was a British film director and screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century comedies, including several films starring Norman Wisdom.
  • E. Jack Clayton
    Jack Clayton was a British film director known for his atmospheric, character-driven dramas and literary adaptations, including the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby.
  • 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: John Gilling
Triple: [Hammer Film Productions, notableDirectorCollaborator, John Gilling]
Generated description
John Gilling was a British film director and screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century horror and thriller films, particularly for Hammer Film Productions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Gilling
Target entity description: John Gilling was a British film director and screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century horror and thriller films, particularly for Hammer Film Productions.
  • A. Jimmy Sangster
    Jimmy Sangster was a British screenwriter and director best known for his influential work on Hammer Films’ classic horror movies in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • B. Terence Fisher
    Terence Fisher was a British film director best known for his influential work on gothic horror films for Hammer Film Productions in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • C. Granville Barker
    Granville Barker was an influential early 20th-century English actor, director, and playwright known for his innovative staging and advocacy of modern drama.
  • D. John Paddy Carstairs
    John Paddy Carstairs was a British film director and screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century comedies, including several films starring Norman Wisdom.
  • E. Jack Clayton
    Jack Clayton was a British film director known for his atmospheric, character-driven dramas and literary adaptations, including the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby.
  • 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_69bd43eac3c08190af7e4020c6c3704c completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6c3f283c8190b2d18ad5159a35ed completed March 20, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be1078784c81908e9a3fd0b168cadc completed March 21, 2026, 3:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be11c41a7c81909f00d8301e224ec2 completed March 21, 2026, 3:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be12497a90819086176bf8a8111517 completed March 21, 2026, 3:36 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:17 p.m.