Triple

T8766299
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pieces of April E208346 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Jim Burns
Jim Burns is a central character in the film "Pieces of April," portrayed as the estranged, terminally ill father whose visit to his daughter's Thanksgiving gathering drives much of the movie's emotional tension and reconciliation.
E757286 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: Jim Burns | Statement: [Pieces of April, character, Jim Burns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jim Burns
Context triple: [Pieces of April, character, Jim Burns]
  • A. Jim Burns
    Jim Burns is a British science fiction and fantasy illustrator renowned for his detailed, atmospheric book cover art.
  • B. Michael Loren Mauldin
    Michael Loren Mauldin is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as the creator of the Lycos web search engine.
  • C. Michael Mauldin
    Michael Mauldin is an American music executive and talent manager known for his influential role in the development of contemporary R&B and hip-hop artists.
  • D. Warren DeMartini
    Warren DeMartini is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for the glam metal band Ratt, where his melodic, technically skilled playing helped define the group’s signature sound in the 1980s.
  • E. Jason Zweig
    Jason Zweig is a financial journalist and author known for his work on investor psychology and for annotating the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s classic book "The Intelligent Investor."
  • 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: Jim Burns
Triple: [Pieces of April, character, Jim Burns]
Generated description
Jim Burns is a central character in the film "Pieces of April," portrayed as the estranged, terminally ill father whose visit to his daughter's Thanksgiving gathering drives much of the movie's emotional tension and reconciliation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jim Burns
Target entity description: Jim Burns is a central character in the film "Pieces of April," portrayed as the estranged, terminally ill father whose visit to his daughter's Thanksgiving gathering drives much of the movie's emotional tension and reconciliation.
  • A. Jim Burns
    Jim Burns is a British science fiction and fantasy illustrator renowned for his detailed, atmospheric book cover art.
  • B. Michael Loren Mauldin
    Michael Loren Mauldin is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as the creator of the Lycos web search engine.
  • C. Michael Mauldin
    Michael Mauldin is an American music executive and talent manager known for his influential role in the development of contemporary R&B and hip-hop artists.
  • D. Warren DeMartini
    Warren DeMartini is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for the glam metal band Ratt, where his melodic, technically skilled playing helped define the group’s signature sound in the 1980s.
  • E. Jason Zweig
    Jason Zweig is a financial journalist and author known for his work on investor psychology and for annotating the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s classic book "The Intelligent Investor."
  • 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_69ca835df7e08190ac875664cca8f9ca completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5ee97fd0819087ef8fe14b37ae43 completed March 31, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf519f029081908ad0ae79f35b3e9d completed April 3, 2026, 5:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf560021148190b60f3f32b0a952b4 completed April 3, 2026, 5:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf5654aa4c8190a368a0caca8ed45b completed April 3, 2026, 5:55 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:41 p.m.