Triple

T5514955
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Letter (1940 film) E144658 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object James Stephenson
James Stephenson was a British actor best known for his acclaimed supporting roles in Hollywood films of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
E530714 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: James Stephenson | Statement: [The Letter (1940 film), starring, James Stephenson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Stephenson
Context triple: [The Letter (1940 film), starring, James Stephenson]
  • A. Sam Stephenson
    Sam Stephenson is a software developer best known for creating the rbenv Ruby version management tool and contributing to various open-source projects.
  • B. William Stephens
    William Stephens was an American politician who served as the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.
  • C. John Henry Brodribb
    John Henry Brodribb, better known as Sir Henry Irving, was a renowned 19th-century English stage actor and the first actor to be knighted.
  • D. James Staniford
    James Staniford is a central character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," serving as the intelligent, somewhat skeptical American gentleman whose evolving feelings toward the heroine drive much of the story’s romantic and social drama.
  • E. Thomas Sampson
    Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
  • 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: James Stephenson
Triple: [The Letter (1940 film), starring, James Stephenson]
Generated description
James Stephenson was a British actor best known for his acclaimed supporting roles in Hollywood films of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Stephenson
Target entity description: James Stephenson was a British actor best known for his acclaimed supporting roles in Hollywood films of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
  • A. Sam Stephenson
    Sam Stephenson is a software developer best known for creating the rbenv Ruby version management tool and contributing to various open-source projects.
  • B. William Stephens
    William Stephens was an American politician who served as the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.
  • C. John Henry Brodribb
    John Henry Brodribb, better known as Sir Henry Irving, was a renowned 19th-century English stage actor and the first actor to be knighted.
  • D. James Staniford
    James Staniford is a central character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," serving as the intelligent, somewhat skeptical American gentleman whose evolving feelings toward the heroine drive much of the story’s romantic and social drama.
  • E. Thomas Sampson
    Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
  • 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_69c027d92e0c8190ad5552d66e370a22 completed March 22, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0376eea3c8190af11dbb0030cc57d completed March 22, 2026, 6:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0384d023081909cb0d4ba4b80c07e completed March 22, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:33 p.m.