Triple

T6449241
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Gunfighter E139821 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object William Sellers
William Sellers is a screenwriter known for his work on the Western film "The Gunfighter."
 E690161 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: William Sellers | Statement: [The Gunfighter, screenwriter, William Sellers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Sellers
Context triple: [The Gunfighter, screenwriter, William Sellers]
  • A. James L. Massey
    James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
  • B. William Peyton Hubbard
    William Peyton Hubbard was a pioneering Black Canadian politician and civic leader in early 20th-century Toronto, known for breaking racial barriers in municipal government.
  • C. J. E. Nourse
    J. E. Nourse was a United States Navy officer and hydrographer who served as Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory in the late 19th century.
  • D. Richard T. Wetherald
    Richard T. Wetherald was an atmospheric scientist known for his pioneering work with Syukuro Manabe on early climate modeling and the greenhouse effect.
  • E. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • 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: William Sellers
Triple: [The Gunfighter, screenwriter, William Sellers]
Generated description
William Sellers is a screenwriter known for his work on the Western film "The Gunfighter."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Sellers
Target entity description: William Sellers is a screenwriter known for his work on the Western film "The Gunfighter."
  • A. James L. Massey
    James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
  • B. William Peyton Hubbard
    William Peyton Hubbard was a pioneering Black Canadian politician and civic leader in early 20th-century Toronto, known for breaking racial barriers in municipal government.
  • C. J. E. Nourse
    J. E. Nourse was a United States Navy officer and hydrographer who served as Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory in the late 19th century.
  • D. Richard T. Wetherald
    Richard T. Wetherald was an atmospheric scientist known for his pioneering work with Syukuro Manabe on early climate modeling and the greenhouse effect.
  • E. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • 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_69c008b301948190a35854e5284dc822 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c069b1a61c81908610264c098d25b0 completed March 22, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c91f3e6cec8190ad66e8f4feb6b911 completed March 29, 2026, 12:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c9206a41388190a40a5bf39ab50e0d completed March 29, 2026, 12:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c920bcd7a0819096bcc4cb36e6c4f3 completed March 29, 2026, 12:53 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:47 p.m.