Triple

T9845727
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brewster McCloud E239337 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Doran William Cannon
Doran William Cannon was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on unconventional, offbeat films of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
 E824802 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: Doran William Cannon | Statement: [Brewster McCloud, screenwriter, Doran William Cannon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Doran William Cannon
Context triple: [Brewster McCloud, screenwriter, Doran William Cannon]
  • A. Lawrence Cannon
    Lawrence Cannon is a Canadian politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
  • B. Reuben Cannon
    Reuben Cannon is a prominent American casting director and film and television producer known for his influential work in Hollywood and frequent collaborations with Tyler Perry.
  • C. James William Cannon
    James William Cannon was an American industrialist and textile magnate who built one of the South’s largest cotton mill enterprises in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Bruce Cannon
    Bruce Cannon is a film editor best known for his work on movies such as the 1993 drama "Poetic Justice."
  • E. J. D. Cannon
    J. D. Cannon was an American character actor best known for his tough, authoritative roles in film and television, including a prominent part on the TV series "McCloud."
  • 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: Doran William Cannon
Triple: [Brewster McCloud, screenwriter, Doran William Cannon]
Generated description
Doran William Cannon was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on unconventional, offbeat films of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Doran William Cannon
Target entity description: Doran William Cannon was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on unconventional, offbeat films of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • A. Lawrence Cannon
    Lawrence Cannon is a Canadian politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
  • B. Reuben Cannon
    Reuben Cannon is a prominent American casting director and film and television producer known for his influential work in Hollywood and frequent collaborations with Tyler Perry.
  • C. James William Cannon
    James William Cannon was an American industrialist and textile magnate who built one of the South’s largest cotton mill enterprises in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Bruce Cannon
    Bruce Cannon is a film editor best known for his work on movies such as the 1993 drama "Poetic Justice."
  • E. J. D. Cannon
    J. D. Cannon was an American character actor best known for his tough, authoritative roles in film and television, including a prominent part on the TV series "McCloud."
  • 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_69ca84e3f0c48190ada72a65ebd50efd completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb35ff7848190a8a717773d8654b9 completed April 2, 2026, 12:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1d5e1b67c8190ad7b57ea423511d8 completed April 5, 2026, 3:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1d6a385ac8190b5dd11adfbb7578d completed April 5, 2026, 3:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1d75210f4819096ee05a8b870581e completed April 5, 2026, 3:30 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:34 p.m.