Triple

T4763837
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Objective, Burma! E105760 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Alvah Bessie
Alvah Bessie was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter best known as one of the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
E467712 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: Alvah Bessie | Statement: [Objective, Burma!, screenwriter, Alvah Bessie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alvah Bessie
Context triple: [Objective, Burma!, screenwriter, Alvah Bessie]
  • A. H. M. Woodard
    H. M. Woodard was the father of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
  • B. E. D. Nixon
    E. D. Nixon was an African American civil rights leader and NAACP organizer in Montgomery, Alabama, who played a key role in initiating and organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.
  • C. Berrien Kinnard Upshaw
    Berrien Kinnard Upshaw was the first husband of American novelist Margaret Mitchell, best known as the author of "Gone with the Wind."
  • D. Arthur Powell Davis
    Arthur Powell Davis was an American civil engineer and early director of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation known for his influential work on water resource development in the American West.
  • E. Mahlon Sweet
    Mahlon Sweet was a prominent local aviation advocate and civic leader in Eugene, Oregon, whose efforts were instrumental in establishing the city’s municipal airport.
  • 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: Alvah Bessie
Triple: [Objective, Burma!, screenwriter, Alvah Bessie]
Generated description
Alvah Bessie was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter best known as one of the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alvah Bessie
Target entity description: Alvah Bessie was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter best known as one of the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
  • A. H. M. Woodard
    H. M. Woodard was the father of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
  • B. E. D. Nixon
    E. D. Nixon was an African American civil rights leader and NAACP organizer in Montgomery, Alabama, who played a key role in initiating and organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.
  • C. Berrien Kinnard Upshaw
    Berrien Kinnard Upshaw was the first husband of American novelist Margaret Mitchell, best known as the author of "Gone with the Wind."
  • D. Arthur Powell Davis
    Arthur Powell Davis was an American civil engineer and early director of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation known for his influential work on water resource development in the American West.
  • E. Mahlon Sweet
    Mahlon Sweet was a prominent local aviation advocate and civic leader in Eugene, Oregon, whose efforts were instrumental in establishing the city’s municipal airport.
  • 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.