Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The State E212026 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object David Wain
David Wain is an American comedian, writer, director, and actor best known for co-creating the sketch comedy group The State and directing cult films like Wet Hot American Summer.
 E766318 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: David Wain | Statement: [The State, member, David Wain]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Wain
Context triple: [The State, member, David Wain]
  • A. Nicholas Stoller
    Nicholas Stoller is a British-American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing and writing popular comedy films such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors.
  • B. David Kaufman
    David Kaufman is an American actor best known for voicing Marty McFly in the animated Back to the Future series and for numerous other voice and live-action roles in film and television.
  • C. Judd Apatow
    Judd Apatow is an American filmmaker, producer, and writer known for his influential work in modern comedy films and television series such as "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Knocked Up," and "Freaks and Geeks."
  • D. Jordan Vogt-Roberts
    Jordan Vogt-Roberts is an American film director best known for helming the 2017 blockbuster monster movie "Kong: Skull Island."
  • E. Mark Waters
    Mark Waters is an American film director best known for helming popular teen and fantasy comedies such as "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday."
  • 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: David Wain
Triple: [The State, member, David Wain]
Generated description
David Wain is an American comedian, writer, director, and actor best known for co-creating the sketch comedy group The State and directing cult films like Wet Hot American Summer.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Wain
Target entity description: David Wain is an American comedian, writer, director, and actor best known for co-creating the sketch comedy group The State and directing cult films like Wet Hot American Summer.
  • A. Nicholas Stoller
    Nicholas Stoller is a British-American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing and writing popular comedy films such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors.
  • B. David Kaufman
    David Kaufman is an American actor best known for voicing Marty McFly in the animated Back to the Future series and for numerous other voice and live-action roles in film and television.
  • C. Judd Apatow
    Judd Apatow is an American filmmaker, producer, and writer known for his influential work in modern comedy films and television series such as "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Knocked Up," and "Freaks and Geeks."
  • D. Jordan Vogt-Roberts
    Jordan Vogt-Roberts is an American film director best known for helming the 2017 blockbuster monster movie "Kong: Skull Island."
  • E. Mark Waters
    Mark Waters is an American film director best known for helming popular teen and fantasy comedies such as "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday."
  • 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_69ca839255248190b43984294abd92ae completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc64c2509881908fb692522d348e96 completed April 1, 2026, 12:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfba2cb5e48190813e9c08198149b0 completed April 3, 2026, 1:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfbaf8aa4c8190821ace3f0f53a9b3 completed April 3, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfbb9585688190b3aa3d817bafba51 completed April 3, 2026, 1:07 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:55 p.m.