Triple

T5286695
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject They Live by Night E119635 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Charles Schnee
Charles Schnee was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including several notable film noirs and dramas.
E566774 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: Charles Schnee | Statement: [They Live by Night, screenwriter, Charles Schnee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Schnee
Context triple: [They Live by Night, screenwriter, Charles Schnee]
  • A. Karl Schaefer
    Karl Schaefer is a television writer and producer best known for co-creating the zombie apocalypse series Z Nation and its Netflix prequel Black Summer.
  • B. Carl Braun
    Carl Braun was a prominent American professional basketball player of the 1940s and 1950s, best known as a star guard for the New York Knicks and later a Hall of Famer.
  • C. Carl Schuhmann
    Carl Schuhmann was a German athlete renowned for winning multiple gold medals in gymnastics and wrestling at the inaugural modern Olympic Games in 1896.
  • D. Edgar Schmued
    Edgar Schmued was an aeronautical engineer best known as the chief designer of several iconic World War II and early jet-era fighter aircraft for North American Aviation.
  • E. George Boemler
    George Boemler was a film editor known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the musical comedy "High Society."
  • 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: Charles Schnee
Triple: [They Live by Night, screenwriter, Charles Schnee]
Generated description
Charles Schnee was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including several notable film noirs and dramas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Schnee
Target entity description: Charles Schnee was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including several notable film noirs and dramas.
  • A. Karl Schaefer
    Karl Schaefer is a television writer and producer best known for co-creating the zombie apocalypse series Z Nation and its Netflix prequel Black Summer.
  • B. Carl Braun
    Carl Braun was a prominent American professional basketball player of the 1940s and 1950s, best known as a star guard for the New York Knicks and later a Hall of Famer.
  • C. Carl Schuhmann
    Carl Schuhmann was a German athlete renowned for winning multiple gold medals in gymnastics and wrestling at the inaugural modern Olympic Games in 1896.
  • D. Edgar Schmued
    Edgar Schmued was an aeronautical engineer best known as the chief designer of several iconic World War II and early jet-era fighter aircraft for North American Aviation.
  • E. George Boemler
    George Boemler was a film editor known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the musical comedy "High Society."
  • 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_69bd446de5648190b313a90bd96730d2 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd84d9a0788190a4a85a9cab07903f completed March 20, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c11c83f8bc8190bdf139c9da2dd66b completed March 23, 2026, 10:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c11d9102648190a61e9a85ead0fff4 completed March 23, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c11e76f5c48190adabb10472729cb2 completed March 23, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:52 p.m.