Triple

T8207162
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Whole Town’s Talking E191715 entity
Predicate producer P490 FINISHED
Object Lester Cowan
Lester Cowan was an American film producer active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for overseeing several notable studio comedies and dramas.
 E748190 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: Lester Cowan | Statement: [The Whole Town’s Talking, producer, Lester Cowan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lester Cowan
Context triple: [The Whole Town’s Talking, producer, Lester Cowan]
  • A. Lester Orlebeck
    Lester Orlebeck was an American film editor and occasional director known for his work on numerous Hollywood features, including classic family films of the mid-20th century.
  • B. Charles Horvath
    Charles Horvath was an American actor and stuntman known for his rugged roles in Westerns and action films.
  • C. Harvey Cokeliss
    Harvey Cokeliss is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for his work in genre cinema and television.
  • D. Lew Cirne
    Lew Cirne is a software entrepreneur and technologist best known as the founder of New Relic and a pioneer in application performance monitoring.
  • E. Luther Cressman
    Luther Cressman was an American archaeologist and anthropologist best known for his pioneering work on early human habitation in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
  • 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: Lester Cowan
Triple: [The Whole Town’s Talking, producer, Lester Cowan]
Generated description
Lester Cowan was an American film producer active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for overseeing several notable studio comedies and dramas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lester Cowan
Target entity description: Lester Cowan was an American film producer active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for overseeing several notable studio comedies and dramas.
  • A. Lester Orlebeck
    Lester Orlebeck was an American film editor and occasional director known for his work on numerous Hollywood features, including classic family films of the mid-20th century.
  • B. Charles Horvath
    Charles Horvath was an American actor and stuntman known for his rugged roles in Westerns and action films.
  • C. Harvey Cokeliss
    Harvey Cokeliss is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for his work in genre cinema and television.
  • D. Lew Cirne
    Lew Cirne is a software entrepreneur and technologist best known as the founder of New Relic and a pioneer in application performance monitoring.
  • E. Luther Cressman
    Luther Cressman was an American archaeologist and anthropologist best known for his pioneering work on early human habitation in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
  • 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_69ca82c7f3e08190857bf1fc63b2a10c completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb726b520081908ce4a03bd14dfcdf completed March 31, 2026, 7:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cecc1842608190bc0fd78e28aa324d completed April 2, 2026, 8:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cece14193081909e7b36f5b5b7da40 completed April 2, 2026, 8:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cecee1db28819095f704b96b8c6d2a completed April 2, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:43 p.m.