Triple

T5042793
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Outsider (1961 film) E113584 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object William Bradford Huie
William Bradford Huie was an American journalist and author known for his hard-hitting nonfiction books on race, war, and crime, several of which were adapted into films.
E488996 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: William Bradford Huie | Statement: [The Outsider (1961 film), screenwriter, William Bradford Huie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Bradford Huie
Context triple: [The Outsider (1961 film), screenwriter, William Bradford Huie]
  • A. Floyd McKissick
    Floyd McKissick was a prominent American civil rights attorney and activist who led the Congress of Racial Equality in the 1960s and later became a key advocate of Black economic empowerment and political participation.
  • B. Lonnie E. Smith
    Lonnie E. Smith was an African American voter whose challenge to racially discriminatory primary elections led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright (1944), which struck down white-only primaries.
  • C. Clarence "Big House" Gaines
    Clarence "Big House" Gaines was a legendary college basketball coach who built Winston-Salem State into a powerhouse program and became one of the winningest coaches in NCAA history.
  • D. Ordell Robbie
    Ordell Robbie is a ruthless and manipulative gunrunner in Quentin Tarantino’s film "Jackie Brown," known for his charismatic yet menacing demeanor.
  • E. Garland Mosley
    Garland Mosley is an American songwriter and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with his brother, the acclaimed producer Timbaland.
  • 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: William Bradford Huie
Triple: [The Outsider (1961 film), screenwriter, William Bradford Huie]
Generated description
William Bradford Huie was an American journalist and author known for his hard-hitting nonfiction books on race, war, and crime, several of which were adapted into films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Bradford Huie
Target entity description: William Bradford Huie was an American journalist and author known for his hard-hitting nonfiction books on race, war, and crime, several of which were adapted into films.
  • A. Floyd McKissick
    Floyd McKissick was a prominent American civil rights attorney and activist who led the Congress of Racial Equality in the 1960s and later became a key advocate of Black economic empowerment and political participation.
  • B. Lonnie E. Smith
    Lonnie E. Smith was an African American voter whose challenge to racially discriminatory primary elections led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright (1944), which struck down white-only primaries.
  • C. Clarence "Big House" Gaines
    Clarence "Big House" Gaines was a legendary college basketball coach who built Winston-Salem State into a powerhouse program and became one of the winningest coaches in NCAA history.
  • D. Ordell Robbie
    Ordell Robbie is a ruthless and manipulative gunrunner in Quentin Tarantino’s film "Jackie Brown," known for his charismatic yet menacing demeanor.
  • E. Garland Mosley
    Garland Mosley is an American songwriter and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with his brother, the acclaimed producer Timbaland.
  • 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_69bd44391fc48190a311ce9c826c209b completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd73df8f7481909a8b86c4ae69aab9 completed March 20, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be9c87455081908b759eed55730503 completed March 21, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be9fc4f8bc8190a21c828ea5cb9529 completed March 21, 2026, 1:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bea026f1008190861990c7a330222e completed March 21, 2026, 1:41 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:37 p.m.