Triple

T4763727
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject They Drive by Night E105758 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Richard Macaulay
Richard Macaulay was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic studio era, known for his work on crime dramas and film noirs.
E467705 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: Richard Macaulay | Statement: [They Drive by Night, screenwriter, Richard Macaulay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Macaulay
Context triple: [They Drive by Night, screenwriter, Richard Macaulay]
  • A. William Robertson
    William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • B. John Carlyle
    John Carlyle was an 18th-century Scottish merchant and prominent early resident of Alexandria, Virginia, whose wealth and status are reflected in the grand Carlyle House built for him.
  • C. Thomas Hume
    Thomas Hume was a prominent 19th-century lumber baron and businessman in Muskegon, Michigan, whose success in the lumber industry led to the construction of the historic Hackley and Hume homes.
  • D. Philip MacDonald
    Philip MacDonald was a British-born novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery fiction and his contributions to classic Hollywood films.
  • E. Alexander Muir
    Alexander Muir was a Scottish-born Canadian songwriter, poet, and schoolteacher best known for composing the patriotic song "The Maple Leaf Forever."
  • 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: Richard Macaulay
Triple: [They Drive by Night, screenwriter, Richard Macaulay]
Generated description
Richard Macaulay was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic studio era, known for his work on crime dramas and film noirs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Macaulay
Target entity description: Richard Macaulay was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic studio era, known for his work on crime dramas and film noirs.
  • A. William Robertson
    William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • B. John Carlyle
    John Carlyle was an 18th-century Scottish merchant and prominent early resident of Alexandria, Virginia, whose wealth and status are reflected in the grand Carlyle House built for him.
  • C. Thomas Hume
    Thomas Hume was a prominent 19th-century lumber baron and businessman in Muskegon, Michigan, whose success in the lumber industry led to the construction of the historic Hackley and Hume homes.
  • D. Philip MacDonald
    Philip MacDonald was a British-born novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery fiction and his contributions to classic Hollywood films.
  • E. Alexander Muir
    Alexander Muir was a Scottish-born Canadian songwriter, poet, and schoolteacher best known for composing the patriotic song "The Maple Leaf Forever."
  • 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_69bd43f14cac819081c7c69803648211 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6530f0648190b76db9964471cfeb completed March 20, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be3a87741081909380c51ba4efed92 completed March 21, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be3d444b888190b2df7433502604ff completed March 21, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be3dd31c648190bfdac15fb85cfec9 completed March 21, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:20 p.m.