Triple

T6464671
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Young Philadelphians E142203 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Vincent Sherman
Vincent Sherman was an American film director and actor best known for his work on Hollywood melodramas and crime dramas from the 1940s through the 1960s.
E606485 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: Vincent Sherman | Statement: [The Young Philadelphians, director, Vincent Sherman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vincent Sherman
Context triple: [The Young Philadelphians, director, Vincent Sherman]
  • A. Vince Sherman
    Vince Sherman is a central character in the psychological thriller film "Mindhunters," portrayed as one of the FBI profiler trainees trapped on a remote island during a deadly training exercise.
  • B. Dick Van Patten
    Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
  • C. Kevin Kiner
    Kevin Kiner is an American composer best known for his prolific work on film and television scores, including major franchises like Star Wars and DC Comics adaptations.
  • D. George Bergman
    George Bergman was an American mathematician known for his work in algebra and category theory and for his influential contributions to mathematical education and expository writing.
  • E. Josh Mankiewicz
    Josh Mankiewicz is an American journalist best known as a longtime correspondent for NBC's newsmagazine program "Dateline NBC."
  • 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: Vincent Sherman
Triple: [The Young Philadelphians, director, Vincent Sherman]
Generated description
Vincent Sherman was an American film director and actor best known for his work on Hollywood melodramas and crime dramas from the 1940s through the 1960s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vincent Sherman
Target entity description: Vincent Sherman was an American film director and actor best known for his work on Hollywood melodramas and crime dramas from the 1940s through the 1960s.
  • A. Vince Sherman
    Vince Sherman is a central character in the psychological thriller film "Mindhunters," portrayed as one of the FBI profiler trainees trapped on a remote island during a deadly training exercise.
  • B. Dick Van Patten
    Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
  • C. Kevin Kiner
    Kevin Kiner is an American composer best known for his prolific work on film and television scores, including major franchises like Star Wars and DC Comics adaptations.
  • D. George Bergman
    George Bergman was an American mathematician known for his work in algebra and category theory and for his influential contributions to mathematical education and expository writing.
  • E. Josh Mankiewicz
    Josh Mankiewicz is an American journalist best known as a longtime correspondent for NBC's newsmagazine program "Dateline NBC."
  • 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_69c008d3bf4c8190bcf798c5ba9d6fb3 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c06a10305081909521ee200cf70a30 completed March 22, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6e40c193c8190b4d7acd4530121f0 completed March 27, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6e50db2cc8190932c4d44257acb83 completed March 27, 2026, 8:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6e5eacefc819092d0e9f79d90c4a6 completed March 27, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:49 p.m.