Triple

T8742166
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Lady from Shanghai E207529 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Arthur Bannister
Arthur Bannister is a cunning, crippled defense attorney and one of the central, morally ambiguous figures in Orson Welles’s film noir *The Lady from Shanghai*.
E772346 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: Arthur Bannister | Statement: [The Lady from Shanghai, character, Arthur Bannister]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arthur Bannister
Context triple: [The Lady from Shanghai, character, Arthur Bannister]
  • A. Philip Stainton
    Philip Stainton was a British character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films, including the adventure drama "Mogambo."
  • B. Raymond Hatton
    Raymond Hatton was an American character actor and silent film star known for his prolific career in early Hollywood cinema, often appearing in Westerns and comedies.
  • C. Paul Beeston
    Paul Beeston is a prominent Canadian baseball executive best known for his long tenure as a top leader of the Toronto Blue Jays and as the first president of Major League Baseball.
  • D. Ernest Marples
    Ernest Marples was a British Conservative politician who served as Minister of Transport in the late 1950s and early 1960s, overseeing major and often controversial changes to the UK’s transport infrastructure.
  • E. Arthur Surridge Hunt
    Arthur Surridge Hunt was a British papyrologist and archaeologist renowned for co-discovering and publishing the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, one of the most important collections of ancient manuscripts ever found.
  • 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: Arthur Bannister
Triple: [The Lady from Shanghai, character, Arthur Bannister]
Generated description
Arthur Bannister is a cunning, crippled defense attorney and one of the central, morally ambiguous figures in Orson Welles’s film noir *The Lady from Shanghai*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arthur Bannister
Target entity description: Arthur Bannister is a cunning, crippled defense attorney and one of the central, morally ambiguous figures in Orson Welles’s film noir *The Lady from Shanghai*.
  • A. Philip Stainton
    Philip Stainton was a British character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films, including the adventure drama "Mogambo."
  • B. Raymond Hatton
    Raymond Hatton was an American character actor and silent film star known for his prolific career in early Hollywood cinema, often appearing in Westerns and comedies.
  • C. Paul Beeston
    Paul Beeston is a prominent Canadian baseball executive best known for his long tenure as a top leader of the Toronto Blue Jays and as the first president of Major League Baseball.
  • D. Ernest Marples
    Ernest Marples was a British Conservative politician who served as Minister of Transport in the late 1950s and early 1960s, overseeing major and often controversial changes to the UK’s transport infrastructure.
  • E. Arthur Surridge Hunt
    Arthur Surridge Hunt was a British papyrologist and archaeologist renowned for co-discovering and publishing the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, one of the most important collections of ancient manuscripts ever found.
  • 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_69ca835a03a081909d4d4cd01a18c9fb completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5d6fd5dc8190906b7147f27c5d46 completed March 31, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfdb7875448190a2478cbb623c31e6 completed April 3, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfdc384884819083334642471c274a completed April 3, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfdc99a59c8190b509f66fa656bd77 completed April 3, 2026, 3:28 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:38 p.m.