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]
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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*.
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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.