Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mr. Holland's Opus E120037 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Stephen Herek
Stephen Herek is an American film director known for popular movies such as "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," "The Mighty Ducks," and "Mr. Holland's Opus."
 E509644 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: Stephen Herek | Statement: [Mr. Holland's Opus, director, Stephen Herek]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Stephen Herek
Context triple: [Mr. Holland's Opus, director, Stephen Herek]
  • A. Scott Ehrlich
    Scott Ehrlich is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
  • B. Scott Devendorf
    Scott Devendorf is an American bassist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the indie rock band The National.
  • C. Kirk Stievely
    Kirk Stievely is a British actor best known as the former husband of actress Victoria Tennant.
  • D. Eric Strobel
    Eric Strobel is a former American ice hockey forward best known as a member of the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic team that won gold in Lake Placid.
  • E. Mark Okerstrom
    Mark Okerstrom is a Canadian business executive best known for serving as the former CEO of Expedia Group.
  • 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: Stephen Herek
Triple: [Mr. Holland's Opus, director, Stephen Herek]
Generated description
Stephen Herek is an American film director known for popular movies such as "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," "The Mighty Ducks," and "Mr. Holland's Opus."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Stephen Herek
Target entity description: Stephen Herek is an American film director known for popular movies such as "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," "The Mighty Ducks," and "Mr. Holland's Opus."
  • A. Scott Ehrlich
    Scott Ehrlich is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
  • B. Scott Devendorf
    Scott Devendorf is an American bassist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the indie rock band The National.
  • C. Kirk Stievely
    Kirk Stievely is a British actor best known as the former husband of actress Victoria Tennant.
  • D. Eric Strobel
    Eric Strobel is a former American ice hockey forward best known as a member of the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic team that won gold in Lake Placid.
  • E. Mark Okerstrom
    Mark Okerstrom is a Canadian business executive best known for serving as the former CEO of Expedia Group.
  • 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_69bd44704be88190acdb2ac481b0ff55 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd851b685c8190b7ed8c762a807395 completed March 20, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf10f3b9ac81909cd2ca2278b11d3e completed March 21, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf11635b9c819092130c46caea9306 completed March 21, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf11e982d08190bc74312bf6ee7127 completed March 21, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:53 p.m.