Triple

T8450709
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Big Short E199791 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Michael Burry
Michael Burry is an American investor and hedge fund manager best known for predicting and profiting from the U.S. housing market collapse before the 2008 financial crisis.
 E734860 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: Michael Burry | Statement: [The Big Short, mainCharacter, Michael Burry]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Michael Burry
Context triple: [The Big Short, mainCharacter, Michael Burry]
  • A. Paul Tudor Jones
    Paul Tudor Jones is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, philanthropist, and founder of Tudor Investment Corporation, known for his macro trading and for predicting the 1987 stock market crash.
  • B. Seth Klarman
    Seth Klarman is an American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and author, best known as the long-time head of Baupost Group and a leading proponent of value investing.
  • C. David Einhorn
    David Einhorn was a 19th-century German-American rabbi and theologian who became a leading early architect and outspoken advocate of Reform Judaism in the United States.
  • D. Bill Gross
    Bill Gross is an American entrepreneur and investor best known for founding numerous technology companies and the startup incubator Idealab.
  • E. Bill Miller
    Bill Miller is a veteran Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous high-profile games, including multiple World Series.
  • 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: Michael Burry
Triple: [The Big Short, mainCharacter, Michael Burry]
Generated description
Michael Burry is an American investor and hedge fund manager best known for predicting and profiting from the U.S. housing market collapse before the 2008 financial crisis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Michael Burry
Target entity description: Michael Burry is an American investor and hedge fund manager best known for predicting and profiting from the U.S. housing market collapse before the 2008 financial crisis.
  • A. Paul Tudor Jones
    Paul Tudor Jones is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, philanthropist, and founder of Tudor Investment Corporation, known for his macro trading and for predicting the 1987 stock market crash.
  • B. Seth Klarman
    Seth Klarman is an American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and author, best known as the long-time head of Baupost Group and a leading proponent of value investing.
  • C. David Einhorn
    David Einhorn was a 19th-century German-American rabbi and theologian who became a leading early architect and outspoken advocate of Reform Judaism in the United States.
  • D. Bill Gross
    Bill Gross is an American entrepreneur and investor best known for founding numerous technology companies and the startup incubator Idealab.
  • E. Bill Miller
    Bill Miller is a veteran Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous high-profile games, including multiple World Series.
  • 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_69ca8318231881908fd1bc1c4d45d286 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe44815488190a912d63512e19af0 completed March 31, 2026, 3:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce1dd14484819082f0319455011a22 completed April 2, 2026, 7:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce1eddb9988190a77ab59f2867ad5d completed April 2, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce1fb9b03c819089976283e1c53ca5 completed April 2, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:09 p.m.