Triple

T7354894
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Grumpy Old Men E169597 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Donald Petrie
Donald Petrie is an American film director known for popular comedies such as "Grumpy Old Men," "Miss Congeniality," and "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."
 E658647 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: Donald Petrie | Statement: [Grumpy Old Men, director, Donald Petrie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Donald Petrie
Context triple: [Grumpy Old Men, director, Donald Petrie]
  • A. William Hopper
    William Hopper was an American actor best known for his roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and television, including a supporting part in the iconic 1955 drama "Rebel Without a Cause."
  • B. Lester Cole
    Lester Cole was an American screenwriter and one of the Hollywood Ten, blacklisted during the Red Scare for alleged communist affiliations.
  • C. Walt Kowalski
    Walt Kowalski is a gruff, widowed Korean War veteran whose evolving relationship with his Hmong neighbors drives the emotional and moral core of the film "Gran Torino."
  • D. Alvin Dewey
    Alvin Dewey was a real-life Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent best known for leading the investigation into the Clutter family murders, as depicted in Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
  • E. Eddie Sawyer
    Eddie Sawyer was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" to the 1950 National League pennant.
  • 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: Donald Petrie
Triple: [Grumpy Old Men, director, Donald Petrie]
Generated description
Donald Petrie is an American film director known for popular comedies such as "Grumpy Old Men," "Miss Congeniality," and "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Donald Petrie
Target entity description: Donald Petrie is an American film director known for popular comedies such as "Grumpy Old Men," "Miss Congeniality," and "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."
  • A. William Hopper
    William Hopper was an American actor best known for his roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and television, including a supporting part in the iconic 1955 drama "Rebel Without a Cause."
  • B. Lester Cole
    Lester Cole was an American screenwriter and one of the Hollywood Ten, blacklisted during the Red Scare for alleged communist affiliations.
  • C. Walt Kowalski
    Walt Kowalski is a gruff, widowed Korean War veteran whose evolving relationship with his Hmong neighbors drives the emotional and moral core of the film "Gran Torino."
  • D. Alvin Dewey
    Alvin Dewey was a real-life Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent best known for leading the investigation into the Clutter family murders, as depicted in Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
  • E. Eddie Sawyer
    Eddie Sawyer was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" to the 1950 National League pennant.
  • 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_69c68a59f2288190877ca15c19b1e822 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f10e71fc81909307ca39a61142d3 completed March 27, 2026, 9:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7faa25960819084ecb6dbf9369ba5 completed March 28, 2026, 3:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7fc2c90488190bd3aa5bf72606723 completed March 28, 2026, 4:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7fcb5f7f0819081e70f8809bb34ae completed March 28, 2026, 4:07 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:05 p.m.