Triple

T4763870
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gentleman Jim E105761 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Horace McCoy
Horace McCoy was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his hardboiled crime fiction, including the classic novel "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?".
 E469941 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: Horace McCoy | Statement: [Gentleman Jim, screenwriter, Horace McCoy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Horace McCoy
Context triple: [Gentleman Jim, screenwriter, Horace McCoy]
  • A. Horace Albert McKinney
    Horace Albert "Bones" McKinney was an American basketball player and coach best known for his colorful personality and successful coaching career at Wake Forest University.
  • B. C. T. Wilkins
    C. T. Wilkins was an aircraft designer best known for his role in creating the British World War II de Havilland Mosquito multirole combat aircraft.
  • C. H. M. Woodard
    H. M. Woodard was the father of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
  • D. Don Carlos Smith
    Don Carlos Smith was a younger brother of Joseph Smith who served as an early leader and publisher in the Latter Day Saint movement before his death in 1841.
  • E. Archdale Wilson
    Archdale Wilson was a British Army officer best known for leading the successful recapture of Delhi during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • 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: Horace McCoy
Triple: [Gentleman Jim, screenwriter, Horace McCoy]
Generated description
Horace McCoy was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his hardboiled crime fiction, including the classic novel "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?".
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Horace McCoy
Target entity description: Horace McCoy was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his hardboiled crime fiction, including the classic novel "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?".
  • A. Horace Albert McKinney
    Horace Albert "Bones" McKinney was an American basketball player and coach best known for his colorful personality and successful coaching career at Wake Forest University.
  • B. C. T. Wilkins
    C. T. Wilkins was an aircraft designer best known for his role in creating the British World War II de Havilland Mosquito multirole combat aircraft.
  • C. H. M. Woodard
    H. M. Woodard was the father of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
  • D. Don Carlos Smith
    Don Carlos Smith was a younger brother of Joseph Smith who served as an early leader and publisher in the Latter Day Saint movement before his death in 1841.
  • E. Archdale Wilson
    Archdale Wilson was a British Army officer best known for leading the successful recapture of Delhi during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • 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_69be43bad99c8190a170baefea057038 completed March 21, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be44210b8081908d2de14acf013c54 completed March 21, 2026, 7:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be45477cbc8190bbfea83dfc64637f completed March 21, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:20 p.m.