Triple

T5514950
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Letter (1940 film) E144658 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Howard E. Koch
Howard E. Koch was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films such as "Casablanca" and for his involvement in the infamous 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast.
E599167 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: Howard E. Koch | Statement: [The Letter (1940 film), screenwriter, Howard E. Koch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard E. Koch
Context triple: [The Letter (1940 film), screenwriter, Howard E. Koch]
  • A. Howard W. Koch
    Howard W. Koch was an American film and television producer and director known for his work on numerous mid-20th-century Hollywood movies and for serving as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
  • B. Seymour Boorstein
    Seymour Boorstein was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for integrating psychoanalytic theory with spirituality and transpersonal psychology.
  • C. Irving Gertz
    Irving Gertz was an American film composer known for scoring mid-20th-century Hollywood movies, particularly war and science fiction films.
  • D. Harry Fischbeck
    Harry Fischbeck was an early American cinematographer best known as one of the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers, helping to establish professional standards and recognition for the craft.
  • E. Ralph Berkowitz
    Ralph Berkowitz was an American pianist, accompanist, and arts administrator known for his influential work in classical music performance and education.
  • 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: Howard E. Koch
Triple: [The Letter (1940 film), screenwriter, Howard E. Koch]
Generated description
Howard E. Koch was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films such as "Casablanca" and for his involvement in the infamous 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard E. Koch
Target entity description: Howard E. Koch was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films such as "Casablanca" and for his involvement in the infamous 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast.
  • A. Howard W. Koch
    Howard W. Koch was an American film and television producer and director known for his work on numerous mid-20th-century Hollywood movies and for serving as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
  • B. Seymour Boorstein
    Seymour Boorstein was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for integrating psychoanalytic theory with spirituality and transpersonal psychology.
  • C. Irving Gertz
    Irving Gertz was an American film composer known for scoring mid-20th-century Hollywood movies, particularly war and science fiction films.
  • D. Harry Fischbeck
    Harry Fischbeck was an early American cinematographer best known as one of the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers, helping to establish professional standards and recognition for the craft.
  • E. Ralph Berkowitz
    Ralph Berkowitz was an American pianist, accompanist, and arts administrator known for his influential work in classical music performance and education.
  • 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_69c008f77ff88190b0cd50ca207295d1 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01f5b4e988190b590b4157cf089c1 completed March 22, 2026, 4:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6cad46d4081908f685d961d100d42 completed March 27, 2026, 6:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6cc960e088190bd9643aa1c46128d completed March 27, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6cd4d50948190ac60ec518f00e5d8 completed March 27, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:33 p.m.