Triple

T8786090
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sledgehammer (music video) E209045 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Stephen R. Johnson
Stephen R. Johnson was a British director and animator best known for his innovative, stop-motion–driven music videos in the 1980s, particularly his groundbreaking work with Peter Gabriel.
 E806227 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: Stephen R. Johnson | Statement: [Sledgehammer (music video), director, Stephen R. Johnson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Stephen R. Johnson
Context triple: [Sledgehammer (music video), director, Stephen R. Johnson]
  • A. Stephen C. Johnson
    Stephen C. Johnson is an American computer scientist best known for creating the Yacc parser generator and contributing to early Unix development at Bell Labs.
  • B. Stephen K. Robinson
    Stephen K. Robinson is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and conducted spacewalks to help assemble and repair the International Space Station.
  • C. Peter D. Martin
    Peter D. Martin was an American writer, academic, and publisher best known as the co-founder of San Francisco’s influential City Lights Bookstore and its associated publishing house.
  • D. Bruce H. Mann
    Bruce H. Mann is an American legal historian and Harvard Law School professor known for his scholarship on early American legal and economic history and for being married to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren.
  • E. Michael J. Weithorn
    Michael J. Weithorn is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and working on several sitcoms, including "Ned and Stacey" and "The King of Queens."
  • 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: Stephen R. Johnson
Triple: [Sledgehammer (music video), director, Stephen R. Johnson]
Generated description
Stephen R. Johnson was a British director and animator best known for his innovative, stop-motion–driven music videos in the 1980s, particularly his groundbreaking work with Peter Gabriel.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Stephen R. Johnson
Target entity description: Stephen R. Johnson was a British director and animator best known for his innovative, stop-motion–driven music videos in the 1980s, particularly his groundbreaking work with Peter Gabriel.
  • A. Stephen C. Johnson
    Stephen C. Johnson is an American computer scientist best known for creating the Yacc parser generator and contributing to early Unix development at Bell Labs.
  • B. Stephen K. Robinson
    Stephen K. Robinson is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and conducted spacewalks to help assemble and repair the International Space Station.
  • C. Peter D. Martin
    Peter D. Martin was an American writer, academic, and publisher best known as the co-founder of San Francisco’s influential City Lights Bookstore and its associated publishing house.
  • D. Bruce H. Mann
    Bruce H. Mann is an American legal historian and Harvard Law School professor known for his scholarship on early American legal and economic history and for being married to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren.
  • E. Michael J. Weithorn
    Michael J. Weithorn is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and working on several sitcoms, including "Ned and Stacey" and "The King of Queens."
  • 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_69ca836168108190bb43d3dc235c1f55 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5f758d348190804942d985f2337c completed March 31, 2026, 11:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d14bb716cc819096a1e02e61db2e69 completed April 4, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d14f8eb6b08190b90d1b709f562d4e completed April 4, 2026, 5:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d14fde5acc81909555bde89db8f451 completed April 4, 2026, 5:52 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:42 p.m.