Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Great Wall (2016 film) E105472 entity
Predicate storyBy P1955 FINISHED
Object Max Brooks
Max Brooks is an American author and screenwriter best known for his zombie-themed works such as "World War Z" and "The Zombie Survival Guide."
E467318 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: Max Brooks | Statement: [The Great Wall (2016 film), storyBy, Max Brooks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Max Brooks
Context triple: [The Great Wall (2016 film), storyBy, Max Brooks]
  • A. Paul Brooks
    Paul Brooks is known primarily as the husband of civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks.
  • B. Max Allan Collins
    Max Allan Collins is an American mystery and crime writer best known for his graphic novel "Road to Perdition" and his extensive work in detective fiction and tie-in novels.
  • C. Rand Brooks
    Rand Brooks was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic Hollywood productions such as "Gone with the Wind" and numerous Westerns.
  • D. Greg Iles
    Greg Iles is an American novelist best known for his suspense and crime thrillers, many set in the American South.
  • E. Robert Kirkman
    Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer and television producer best known as the creator of the post-apocalyptic horror series "The Walking Dead."
  • 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: Max Brooks
Triple: [The Great Wall (2016 film), storyBy, Max Brooks]
Generated description
Max Brooks is an American author and screenwriter best known for his zombie-themed works such as "World War Z" and "The Zombie Survival Guide."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Max Brooks
Target entity description: Max Brooks is an American author and screenwriter best known for his zombie-themed works such as "World War Z" and "The Zombie Survival Guide."
  • A. Paul Brooks
    Paul Brooks is known primarily as the husband of civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks.
  • B. Max Allan Collins
    Max Allan Collins is an American mystery and crime writer best known for his graphic novel "Road to Perdition" and his extensive work in detective fiction and tie-in novels.
  • C. Rand Brooks
    Rand Brooks was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic Hollywood productions such as "Gone with the Wind" and numerous Westerns.
  • D. Greg Iles
    Greg Iles is an American novelist best known for his suspense and crime thrillers, many set in the American South.
  • E. Robert Kirkman
    Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer and television producer best known as the creator of the post-apocalyptic horror series "The Walking Dead."
  • 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_69bd43f07fa48190954317d01600994a completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd64c97b548190815083f2f8df907c completed March 20, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be3a561a7c8190a5ab87751ab36e0d completed March 21, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be3d2063e48190afb3fdfd5ad6749f completed March 21, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be3d99a288819088e42e04de5c17a4 completed March 21, 2026, 6:41 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:20 p.m.