Triple

T984258
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Star Is Born (1954 film) E21243 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object James Mason
James Mason was a distinguished English actor known for his smooth voice and nuanced performances in classic films such as "A Star Is Born," "North by Northwest," and "Lolita."
E131596 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: James Mason | Statement: [A Star Is Born (1954 film), starring, James Mason]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Mason
Context triple: [A Star Is Born (1954 film), starring, James Mason]
  • A. Claude Rains
    Claude Rains was a distinguished British-American character actor renowned for his nuanced performances in classic films such as "Casablanca," "The Invisible Man," and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
  • B. Louis Calhern
    Louis Calhern was an American stage and film actor known for his sophisticated character roles in classic Hollywood cinema, including notable performances in films like "The Asphalt Jungle" and "Julius Caesar."
  • C. Richard Dix
    Richard Dix was an American leading man of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his rugged roles in dramas and Westerns and for earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
  • D. Joseph Cotten
    Joseph Cotten was an American film actor best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles and his roles in classic films of the 1940s such as "The Third Man" and "Shadow of a Doubt."
  • E. Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres was an American actor best known for his starring role in the anti-war film "All Quiet on the Western Front" and for his long-running portrayal of Dr. Kildare.
  • 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: James Mason
Triple: [A Star Is Born (1954 film), starring, James Mason]
Generated description
James Mason was a distinguished English actor known for his smooth voice and nuanced performances in classic films such as "A Star Is Born," "North by Northwest," and "Lolita."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Mason
Target entity description: James Mason was a distinguished English actor known for his smooth voice and nuanced performances in classic films such as "A Star Is Born," "North by Northwest," and "Lolita."
  • A. Claude Rains
    Claude Rains was a distinguished British-American character actor renowned for his nuanced performances in classic films such as "Casablanca," "The Invisible Man," and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
  • B. Louis Calhern
    Louis Calhern was an American stage and film actor known for his sophisticated character roles in classic Hollywood cinema, including notable performances in films like "The Asphalt Jungle" and "Julius Caesar."
  • C. Richard Dix
    Richard Dix was an American leading man of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his rugged roles in dramas and Westerns and for earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
  • D. Joseph Cotten
    Joseph Cotten was an American film actor best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles and his roles in classic films of the 1940s such as "The Third Man" and "Shadow of a Doubt."
  • E. Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres was an American actor best known for his starring role in the anti-war film "All Quiet on the Western Front" and for his long-running portrayal of Dr. Kildare.
  • 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_69a493c383dc8190a03257f22d4b4183 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b493f5dc819090d239c2f7e083de completed March 1, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac5e9d99f08190ad72bdb3ab555fec completed March 7, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac5f248db081908596810839ee6160 completed March 7, 2026, 5:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac5fb242488190bf99f63956aeda13 completed March 7, 2026, 5:26 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.