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]
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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.
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B.
William Stephens
William Stephens was an American politician who served as the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.