Triple

T9836794
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thunderbolt (1929 film) E239121 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Charles Furthman
Charles Furthman was an American screenwriter active during the silent and early sound film era.
 E840196 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: Charles Furthman | Statement: [Thunderbolt (1929 film), screenwriter, Charles Furthman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Charles Furthman
Context triple: [Thunderbolt (1929 film), screenwriter, Charles Furthman]
  • A. Joseph Burkett
    Joseph Burkett is an American defense contractor best known as the husband of journalist and war correspondent Lara Logan.
  • B. Charles Greenway
    Charles Greenway was a British businessman and industrialist best known for his leading role in developing the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a precursor to BP.
  • C. Louis Gaines
    Louis Gaines is a fictional character in the film "The Butler," portrayed as the politically active son of White House butler Cecil Gaines, whose civil rights activism contrasts with his father's more reserved approach to racial injustice.
  • D. Holton D. Robinson
    Holton D. Robinson was an American civil engineer noted for his work on major suspension bridges in the early 20th century.
  • E. Carlton Livingston
    Carlton Livingston is a Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter best known for his 1984 hit "100 Weight of Collie Weed."
  • 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: Charles Furthman
Triple: [Thunderbolt (1929 film), screenwriter, Charles Furthman]
Generated description
Charles Furthman was an American screenwriter active during the silent and early sound film era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Charles Furthman
Target entity description: Charles Furthman was an American screenwriter active during the silent and early sound film era.
  • A. Joseph Burkett
    Joseph Burkett is an American defense contractor best known as the husband of journalist and war correspondent Lara Logan.
  • B. Charles Greenway
    Charles Greenway was a British businessman and industrialist best known for his leading role in developing the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a precursor to BP.
  • C. Louis Gaines
    Louis Gaines is a fictional character in the film "The Butler," portrayed as the politically active son of White House butler Cecil Gaines, whose civil rights activism contrasts with his father's more reserved approach to racial injustice.
  • D. Holton D. Robinson
    Holton D. Robinson was an American civil engineer noted for his work on major suspension bridges in the early 20th century.
  • E. Carlton Livingston
    Carlton Livingston is a Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter best known for his 1984 hit "100 Weight of Collie Weed."
  • 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_69ca84e314108190978324a4bdb959f8 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb33b07688190b78a70cf535c3efc completed April 2, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2b5aab5408190aacdc310222bb85b completed April 5, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2b741cad481909f04e2f8da68753c completed April 5, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2b805afa08190a43745d764a75050 completed April 5, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:33 p.m.