Triple

T9250809
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edmund Goulding E222317 entity
Predicate directed P7373 FINISHED
Object The Old Maid
The Old Maid is a 1939 American drama film, based on Edith Wharton’s novella and starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins, about two cousins whose lives are shattered by a long-held secret over a child.
E788173 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: The Old Maid | Statement: [Edmund Goulding, directed, The Old Maid]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Old Maid
Context triple: [Edmund Goulding, directed, The Old Maid]
  • A. The Old Maid
    The Old Maid is a 1935 stage play by Zoë Akins, adapted from Edith Wharton’s novella, best known for its acclaimed Broadway production starring Helen Menken.
  • B. The White Old Maid
    "The White Old Maid" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, notable for its Gothic atmosphere and themes of guilt and lifelong penance.
  • C. The Old Lady
    The Old Lady is a recurring comic character from Fontaine Fox’s early 20th-century newspaper strip "Toonerville Folks," known for embodying the quaint, humorous charm of small-town life.
  • D. The Old-Fashioned Woman
    The Old-Fashioned Woman is a sociological study by Elsie Clews Parsons that critically examines traditional gender roles and the cultural expectations placed on women in early 20th-century society.
  • E. The Old Wives’ Tale
    The Old Wives’ Tale is a 1908 novel by Arnold Bennett that traces the contrasting lives of two sisters from a Staffordshire draper’s shop through decades of social change in England and France.
  • 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: The Old Maid
Triple: [Edmund Goulding, directed, The Old Maid]
Generated description
The Old Maid is a 1939 American drama film, based on Edith Wharton’s novella and starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins, about two cousins whose lives are shattered by a long-held secret over a child.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Old Maid
Target entity description: The Old Maid is a 1939 American drama film, based on Edith Wharton’s novella and starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins, about two cousins whose lives are shattered by a long-held secret over a child.
  • A. The Old Maid
    The Old Maid is a 1935 stage play by Zoë Akins, adapted from Edith Wharton’s novella, best known for its acclaimed Broadway production starring Helen Menken.
  • B. The White Old Maid
    "The White Old Maid" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, notable for its Gothic atmosphere and themes of guilt and lifelong penance.
  • C. The Old Lady
    The Old Lady is a recurring comic character from Fontaine Fox’s early 20th-century newspaper strip "Toonerville Folks," known for embodying the quaint, humorous charm of small-town life.
  • D. The Old-Fashioned Woman
    The Old-Fashioned Woman is a sociological study by Elsie Clews Parsons that critically examines traditional gender roles and the cultural expectations placed on women in early 20th-century society.
  • E. The Old Wives’ Tale
    The Old Wives’ Tale is a 1908 novel by Arnold Bennett that traces the contrasting lives of two sisters from a Staffordshire draper’s shop through decades of social change in England and France.
  • 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_69ca841d2b18819089f9faf5b2c2aec0 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd05f9ade48190ac8425a1c6f066b1 completed April 1, 2026, 11:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d09bd3fb4c8190a7fa9a60c7f286a0 completed April 4, 2026, 5:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d09cf11e488190b61f4a61002454e6 completed April 4, 2026, 5:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d09e2069048190ac22b738fa324771 completed April 4, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:31 p.m.