Triple

T5019338
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Carpenter films E112810 entity
Predicate hasWork P6260 FINISHED
Object The Thing (1982 film)
The Thing (1982 film) is a 1982 science fiction horror movie about a shape-shifting alien terrorizing an Antarctic research station, renowned for its practical effects, paranoia-driven plot, and status as a cult classic.
E486717 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: The Thing (1982 film) | Statement: [John Carpenter films, hasWork, The Thing (1982 film)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Thing (1982 film)
Context triple: [John Carpenter films, hasWork, The Thing (1982 film)]
  • A. The Shining (1980 film)
    The Shining (1980 film) is Stanley Kubrick’s iconic psychological horror movie, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, about a family’s terrifying descent into madness at an isolated, haunted hotel.
  • B. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film) is a critically acclaimed science-fiction horror remake about an alien pod invasion that subtly replaces humans with emotionless duplicates, noted for its paranoid atmosphere and enduring cultural impact.
  • C. The Fly
    "The Fly" is a U2 song, released as a lead single from their album Achtung Baby, that marked a bold shift toward a darker, more experimental rock and electronic sound.
  • D. The Fly
    The Fly is a comic book superhero, later known as Fly-Man, who debuted in the early 1960s from Archie Comics as an insect-powered crimefighter.
  • E. The Fly
    The Fly is a 1986 science fiction horror film directed by David Cronenberg about a scientist whose teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, leading to his gradual transformation into a human-fly hybrid.
  • 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: The Thing (1982 film)
Triple: [John Carpenter films, hasWork, The Thing (1982 film)]
Generated description
The Thing (1982 film) is a 1982 science fiction horror movie about a shape-shifting alien terrorizing an Antarctic research station, renowned for its practical effects, paranoia-driven plot, and status as a cult classic.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Thing (1982 film)
Target entity description: The Thing (1982 film) is a 1982 science fiction horror movie about a shape-shifting alien terrorizing an Antarctic research station, renowned for its practical effects, paranoia-driven plot, and status as a cult classic.
  • A. The Shining (1980 film)
    The Shining (1980 film) is Stanley Kubrick’s iconic psychological horror movie, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, about a family’s terrifying descent into madness at an isolated, haunted hotel.
  • B. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film) is a critically acclaimed science-fiction horror remake about an alien pod invasion that subtly replaces humans with emotionless duplicates, noted for its paranoid atmosphere and enduring cultural impact.
  • C. The Fly
    The Fly is a comic book superhero, later known as Fly-Man, who debuted in the early 1960s from Archie Comics as an insect-powered crimefighter.
  • D. The Fly
    "The Fly" is a U2 song, released as a lead single from their album Achtung Baby, that marked a bold shift toward a darker, more experimental rock and electronic sound.
  • E. The Fly
    The Fly is a 1986 science fiction horror film directed by David Cronenberg about a scientist whose teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, leading to his gradual transformation into a human-fly hybrid.
  • 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_69bd4435c2f48190be593158cbfcf8a3 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7342c62881909acb35849da8761c completed March 20, 2026, 4:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be927bdfa481908a5face7b4fd7058 completed March 21, 2026, 12:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be93e00fc08190a0706dd7375020f5 completed March 21, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be94a7e15481908f17feafb593b97b completed March 21, 2026, 12:52 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:35 p.m.