Triple
T8766429
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thank You for Smoking |
E208349
|
entity |
| Predicate | producer |
P490
|
FINISHED |
| Object | David O. Sacks |
E276979
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: David O. Sacks | Statement: [Thank You for Smoking, producer, David O. Sacks]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David O. Sacks Context triple: [Thank You for Smoking, producer, David O. Sacks]
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A.
Michael Sacks
Michael Sacks is an American actor best known for his role as Billy Pilgrim in the film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s "Slaughterhouse-Five."
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B.
David Sacks
chosen
David Sacks is a technology entrepreneur and investor best known as the founding COO of PayPal, founder of Geni.com and Yammer, and a prominent figure in Silicon Valley venture capital.
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C.
Philip Goldstein
Philip Goldstein, better known as Philip Guston, was a prominent 20th-century painter associated with Abstract Expressionism who later became renowned for his bold, cartoonish figurative works.
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D.
Alan Sacks
Alan Sacks is an American television and film producer best known for creating and producing popular youth-oriented projects for Disney Channel and other networks.
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E.
Stephen J. Friedman
Stephen J. Friedman was an American film producer and studio executive known for producing notable Hollywood films from the 1970s through the 1990s.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69cfab596ef88190b538d15b0d71e176 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 11:58 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:41 p.m.