Triple

T5143593
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Star Trek: The Motion Picture E116016 entity
Predicate storyBy P1955 FINISHED
Object Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster is an American science fiction and fantasy author known for his novelizations and original works tied to major film and television franchises, including Star Trek and Star Wars.
E498116 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: Alan Dean Foster | Statement: [Star Trek: The Motion Picture, storyBy, Alan Dean Foster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Dean Foster
Context triple: [Star Trek: The Motion Picture, storyBy, Alan Dean Foster]
  • A. Gene Reynolds
    Gene Reynolds was an American actor and Emmy-winning television producer and director, best known for co-creating and producing the acclaimed TV series M*A*S*H.
  • B. Piers Anthony
    Piers Anthony is a British-American fantasy and science fiction author best known for his long-running Xanth series.
  • C. Ian McDonald
    Ian McDonald is a British science fiction author known for his richly imagined, culturally diverse speculative novels such as "River of Gods" and "Brasyl."
  • D. F. Paul Wilson
    F. Paul Wilson is an American author best known for his science fiction, horror, and thriller novels, including the "Repairman Jack" series.
  • E. Jack Asher
    Jack Asher was a British cinematographer best known for his atmospheric, color-rich work on classic Hammer horror films of the 1950s and 1960s.
  • 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: Alan Dean Foster
Triple: [Star Trek: The Motion Picture, storyBy, Alan Dean Foster]
Generated description
Alan Dean Foster is an American science fiction and fantasy author known for his novelizations and original works tied to major film and television franchises, including Star Trek and Star Wars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Dean Foster
Target entity description: Alan Dean Foster is an American science fiction and fantasy author known for his novelizations and original works tied to major film and television franchises, including Star Trek and Star Wars.
  • A. Gene Reynolds
    Gene Reynolds was an American actor and Emmy-winning television producer and director, best known for co-creating and producing the acclaimed TV series M*A*S*H.
  • B. Piers Anthony
    Piers Anthony is a British-American fantasy and science fiction author best known for his long-running Xanth series.
  • C. Ian McDonald
    Ian McDonald is a British science fiction author known for his richly imagined, culturally diverse speculative novels such as "River of Gods" and "Brasyl."
  • D. F. Paul Wilson
    F. Paul Wilson is an American author best known for his science fiction, horror, and thriller novels, including the "Repairman Jack" series.
  • E. Jack Asher
    Jack Asher was a British cinematographer best known for his atmospheric, color-rich work on classic Hammer horror films of the 1950s and 1960s.
  • 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_69bd4446c0e08190a7c29dc74976bf03 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7883004881909c763da818d9b6e2 completed March 20, 2026, 4:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69becfec5c108190a3882c25118179a7 completed March 21, 2026, 5:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bed07c9cd081908f8246e24b2f6458 completed March 21, 2026, 5:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bed1013fe88190b76855a042226359 completed March 21, 2026, 5:10 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:43 p.m.