Triple

T5042889
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Blue and the Gray E113586 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Andrew V. McLaglen
Andrew V. McLaglen was a British-American film and television director best known for his work on Westerns and action films, including numerous collaborations with John Wayne and James Stewart.
E489014 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: Andrew V. McLaglen | Statement: [The Blue and the Gray, director, Andrew V. McLaglen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andrew V. McLaglen
Context triple: [The Blue and the Gray, director, Andrew V. McLaglen]
  • A. John D. Ryan
    John D. Ryan was a United States Air Force general who served as Chief of Staff of the Air Force and played a key leadership role in American strategic air operations during the Cold War.
  • B. Dick Van Patten
    Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
  • C. Lee Flaherty
    Lee Flaherty is an American businessman and race organizer best known for creating and launching the Chicago Marathon in the 1970s.
  • D. William Flanagan
    William Flanagan is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Flanagan.
  • E. Charles Farrell
    Charles Farrell was an American film actor best known as a popular romantic leading man of the late silent and early sound era, frequently paired on screen with Janet Gaynor.
  • 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: Andrew V. McLaglen
Triple: [The Blue and the Gray, director, Andrew V. McLaglen]
Generated description
Andrew V. McLaglen was a British-American film and television director best known for his work on Westerns and action films, including numerous collaborations with John Wayne and James Stewart.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andrew V. McLaglen
Target entity description: Andrew V. McLaglen was a British-American film and television director best known for his work on Westerns and action films, including numerous collaborations with John Wayne and James Stewart.
  • A. John D. Ryan
    John D. Ryan was a United States Air Force general who served as Chief of Staff of the Air Force and played a key leadership role in American strategic air operations during the Cold War.
  • B. Dick Van Patten
    Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
  • C. Lee Flaherty
    Lee Flaherty is an American businessman and race organizer best known for creating and launching the Chicago Marathon in the 1970s.
  • D. William Flanagan
    William Flanagan is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Flanagan.
  • E. Charles Farrell
    Charles Farrell was an American film actor best known as a popular romantic leading man of the late silent and early sound era, frequently paired on screen with Janet Gaynor.
  • 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.