Triple

T9565575
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mank E230780 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Jack Fincher
Jack Fincher was an American journalist and screenwriter best known posthumously for writing the screenplay of the film "Mank," directed by his son David Fincher.
E807909 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: Jack Fincher | Statement: [Mank, screenwriter, Jack Fincher]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jack Fincher
Context triple: [Mank, screenwriter, Jack Fincher]
  • A. John Gurney
    John Gurney was a prominent English Quaker banker and member of the influential Gurney family of Norwich.
  • B. Rayford Young
    Rayford Young is a former Texas Tech college basketball player best known as the father of NBA All-Star point guard Trae Young.
  • C. Donald Ressler
    Donald Ressler is a principled and by-the-book FBI agent who becomes a central figure in the task force pursuing Raymond "Red" Reddington in the TV series "The Blacklist."
  • D. Dean Aldrich
    Dean Aldrich is an individual associated with the use or application of something referred to as "Aldrich," likely in a professional or specialized context.
  • E. Ross Malinger
    Ross Malinger is an American former child actor best known for playing Tom Hanks’s young son in the romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle."
  • 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: Jack Fincher
Triple: [Mank, screenwriter, Jack Fincher]
Generated description
Jack Fincher was an American journalist and screenwriter best known posthumously for writing the screenplay of the film "Mank," directed by his son David Fincher.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jack Fincher
Target entity description: Jack Fincher was an American journalist and screenwriter best known posthumously for writing the screenplay of the film "Mank," directed by his son David Fincher.
  • A. John Gurney
    John Gurney was a prominent English Quaker banker and member of the influential Gurney family of Norwich.
  • B. Rayford Young
    Rayford Young is a former Texas Tech college basketball player best known as the father of NBA All-Star point guard Trae Young.
  • C. Donald Ressler
    Donald Ressler is a principled and by-the-book FBI agent who becomes a central figure in the task force pursuing Raymond "Red" Reddington in the TV series "The Blacklist."
  • D. Dean Aldrich
    Dean Aldrich is an individual associated with the use or application of something referred to as "Aldrich," likely in a professional or specialized context.
  • E. Ross Malinger
    Ross Malinger is an American former child actor best known for playing Tom Hanks’s young son in the romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle."
  • 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_69ca847f22188190a56e4a97625bef22 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd996c0a1081908a8356c454e60f74 completed April 1, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d152abb0788190ab2e204d9a082ccf completed April 4, 2026, 6:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d15565623c81908112183b65464553 completed April 4, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1560bbe3481908c98d74d21b33e63 completed April 4, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:04 p.m.