Triple

T802746
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Ford E17163 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Jack Ford
Jack Ford is the nickname of John Ford, the legendary American film director renowned for his influential Westerns and multiple Academy Awards.
 E99246 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: Jack Ford | Statement: [John Ford, alsoKnownAs, Jack Ford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jack Ford
Context triple: [John Ford, alsoKnownAs, Jack Ford]
  • A. John Pitt
    John Pitt was a British politician and member of the influential Pitt family, active in public life during the 18th century.
  • B. Ford Beebe
    Ford Beebe was an American film director and screenwriter best known for his prolific work on low-budget serials and B-movies during the early to mid-20th century.
  • C. Dwight Merriman
    Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
  • D. John R. Steelman
    John R. Steelman was an American administrator and labor mediator who served as a top aide to President Harry S. Truman and became one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in the postwar White House.
  • E. Harry Burns
    Harry Burns is the witty, neurotic male lead in the romantic comedy film "When Harry Met Sally...".
  • 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: Jack Ford
Triple: [John Ford, alsoKnownAs, Jack Ford]
Generated description
Jack Ford is the nickname of John Ford, the legendary American film director renowned for his influential Westerns and multiple Academy Awards.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jack Ford
Target entity description: Jack Ford is the nickname of John Ford, the legendary American film director renowned for his influential Westerns and multiple Academy Awards.
  • A. John Pitt
    John Pitt was a British politician and member of the influential Pitt family, active in public life during the 18th century.
  • B. Ford Beebe
    Ford Beebe was an American film director and screenwriter best known for his prolific work on low-budget serials and B-movies during the early to mid-20th century.
  • C. Dwight Merriman
    Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
  • D. John R. Steelman
    John R. Steelman was an American administrator and labor mediator who served as a top aide to President Harry S. Truman and became one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in the postwar White House.
  • E. Harry Burns
    Harry Burns is the witty, neurotic male lead in the romantic comedy film "When Harry Met Sally...".
  • 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_69a49378b9c48190adbf5f62e5b7aca1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4aabd9fc081908ccadd8e8769de2d completed March 1, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7928af9d0819095b28e738a0f60dd completed March 4, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a793c427f0819099a5f1efbd692741 completed March 4, 2026, 2:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a794303f1481908d854b1c120d0d9c completed March 4, 2026, 2:08 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.