Triple

T5043346
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shotgun E113598 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Zachary Scott
Zachary Scott was an American actor best known for his suave yet often villainous roles in 1940s and 1950s Hollywood films.
 E527690 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: Zachary Scott | Statement: [Shotgun, starring, Zachary Scott]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Zachary Scott
Context triple: [Shotgun, starring, Zachary Scott]
  • A. Robert Cummings
    Robert Cummings was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in comedies and thrillers during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
  • B. Dick Powell
    Dick Powell was an American actor, singer, and later film director and producer, known for his transition from light musical roles to hard-boiled film noir leads in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • C. Dana Andrews
    Dana Andrews was a prominent American film actor of the 1940s and 1950s, best known for his leading roles in classics such as "Laura" and "The Best Years of Our Lives."
  • D. Sterling Hayden
    Sterling Hayden was an American actor and World War II hero known for his rugged film roles and his clandestine service as a Marine and OSS operative.
  • E. Peter Neal
    Peter Neal is an American lawyer known for being married to Naomi Biden, the granddaughter of U.S. President Joe Biden.
  • 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: Zachary Scott
Triple: [Shotgun, starring, Zachary Scott]
Generated description
Zachary Scott was an American actor best known for his suave yet often villainous roles in 1940s and 1950s Hollywood films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Zachary Scott
Target entity description: Zachary Scott was an American actor best known for his suave yet often villainous roles in 1940s and 1950s Hollywood films.
  • A. Robert Cummings
    Robert Cummings was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in comedies and thrillers during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
  • B. Dick Powell
    Dick Powell was an American actor, singer, and later film director and producer, known for his transition from light musical roles to hard-boiled film noir leads in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • C. Dana Andrews
    Dana Andrews was a prominent American film actor of the 1940s and 1950s, best known for his leading roles in classics such as "Laura" and "The Best Years of Our Lives."
  • D. Sterling Hayden
    Sterling Hayden was an American actor and World War II hero known for his rugged film roles and his clandestine service as a Marine and OSS operative.
  • E. Peter Neal
    Peter Neal is an American lawyer known for being married to Naomi Biden, the granddaughter of U.S. President Joe Biden.
  • 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_69bd73fc04f08190aba851fa0192d0fb completed March 20, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bff960da7c8190a72458b56f6c5c52 completed March 22, 2026, 2:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bffa3a3b1c8190ab03cc1c4f4ca926 completed March 22, 2026, 2:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bffa8b06b88190b1a98348bc4d962e completed March 22, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:37 p.m.