Triple

T8450794
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject World War Z E199792 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Gerry Lane
Gerry Lane is the resourceful former United Nations investigator who serves as the main protagonist battling a global zombie pandemic in the film "World War Z."
 E734863 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: Gerry Lane | Statement: [World War Z, character, Gerry Lane]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gerry Lane
Context triple: [World War Z, character, Gerry Lane]
  • A. Martin Lane
    Martin Lane is a central father figure and newspaper editor on the 1960s American sitcom "The Patty Duke Show."
  • B. Terry Oakes
    Terry Oakes is a British fantasy and science fiction artist known for his vivid, detailed cover illustrations for novels and game books.
  • C. Gary Lough
    Gary Lough is a former Northern Irish middle-distance runner and coach, known both for his own international athletics career and for coaching Olympic champion Mo Farah.
  • D. Terry Tumey
    Terry Tumey is an American college athletics administrator and former UCLA football player and NFL defensive lineman who serves as the athletic director at Fresno State.
  • E. Burt Lane
    Burt Lane was an acting coach and the father of acclaimed American actress Diane Lane.
  • 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: Gerry Lane
Triple: [World War Z, character, Gerry Lane]
Generated description
Gerry Lane is the resourceful former United Nations investigator who serves as the main protagonist battling a global zombie pandemic in the film "World War Z."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gerry Lane
Target entity description: Gerry Lane is the resourceful former United Nations investigator who serves as the main protagonist battling a global zombie pandemic in the film "World War Z."
  • A. Martin Lane
    Martin Lane is a central father figure and newspaper editor on the 1960s American sitcom "The Patty Duke Show."
  • B. Terry Oakes
    Terry Oakes is a British fantasy and science fiction artist known for his vivid, detailed cover illustrations for novels and game books.
  • C. Gary Lough
    Gary Lough is a former Northern Irish middle-distance runner and coach, known both for his own international athletics career and for coaching Olympic champion Mo Farah.
  • D. Terry Tumey
    Terry Tumey is an American college athletics administrator and former UCLA football player and NFL defensive lineman who serves as the athletic director at Fresno State.
  • E. Burt Lane
    Burt Lane was an acting coach and the father of acclaimed American actress Diane Lane.
  • 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.