Triple
T5590931
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Thin Man |
E146874
|
entity |
| Predicate | director |
P255
|
FINISHED |
| Object | W. S. Van Dyke |
E361919
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: W. S. Van Dyke | Statement: [The Thin Man, director, W. S. Van Dyke]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. S. Van Dyke Context triple: [The Thin Man, director, W. S. Van Dyke]
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A.
W. S. Van Dyke
chosen
W. S. Van Dyke was an American film director of Hollywood’s classic era, best known for his efficient, fast-paced filmmaking on hits like The Thin Man series and San Francisco.
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B.
Arthur Dove
Arthur Dove was an early American modernist painter known for his pioneering abstract works inspired by nature and organic forms.
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C.
Olin Levi Warner
Olin Levi Warner was a prominent 19th-century American sculptor known for his portrait busts, reliefs, and architectural sculpture on major public buildings.
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D.
Everett Shinn
Everett Shinn was an American painter and illustrator associated with the Ashcan School, known for his dynamic depictions of urban life and theatrical scenes in early 20th-century New York City.
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E.
Carl Mydans
Carl Mydans was an American photojournalist best known for his powerful documentary images of the Great Depression and World War II, including work for the Farm Security Administration and Life magazine.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c009036c408190981a8d690b679b67 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c020a1d4cc8190a52264dfba6aa011 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 5:02 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c07d8c6f8881909ac2018d11f5aef8 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 11:38 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:38 p.m.