Triple

T10390633
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Monsters vs. Aliens E244883 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Rob Letterman
Rob Letterman is an American film director and screenwriter known for his work on major animated and live-action studio films, including family-friendly comedies and adventure movies.
E860181 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: Rob Letterman | Statement: [Monsters vs. Aliens, director, Rob Letterman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rob Letterman
Context triple: [Monsters vs. Aliens, director, Rob Letterman]
  • A. Lorne David Michaels
    Lorne David Michaels is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, and comedian best known as the creator and longtime executive producer of the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.
  • B. Harry Joseph Letterman
    Harry Joseph Letterman is the son of American television host and comedian David Letterman.
  • C. Al Michaels
    Al Michaels is a renowned American sportscaster best known for his decades of play-by-play commentary on NFL games and other major sporting events.
  • D. Tony Eason
    Tony Eason is a former American football quarterback best known for playing in the NFL during the 1980s, primarily with the New England Patriots.
  • E. Chris Berman
    Chris Berman is a longtime ESPN sportscaster best known for his energetic NFL coverage and signature catchphrases.
  • 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: Rob Letterman
Triple: [Monsters vs. Aliens, director, Rob Letterman]
Generated description
Rob Letterman is an American film director and screenwriter known for his work on major animated and live-action studio films, including family-friendly comedies and adventure movies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rob Letterman
Target entity description: Rob Letterman is an American film director and screenwriter known for his work on major animated and live-action studio films, including family-friendly comedies and adventure movies.
  • A. Lorne David Michaels
    Lorne David Michaels is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, and comedian best known as the creator and longtime executive producer of the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.
  • B. Harry Joseph Letterman
    Harry Joseph Letterman is the son of American television host and comedian David Letterman.
  • C. Al Michaels
    Al Michaels is a renowned American sportscaster best known for his decades of play-by-play commentary on NFL games and other major sporting events.
  • D. Tony Eason
    Tony Eason is a former American football quarterback best known for playing in the NFL during the 1980s, primarily with the New England Patriots.
  • E. Chris Berman
    Chris Berman is a longtime ESPN sportscaster best known for his energetic NFL coverage and signature catchphrases.
  • 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_69d381b5116081908d85227bab6d3c0c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e9b4f7d08190bcb16d3b4c8f22ad completed April 7, 2026, 11:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d795b2423c8190a7c0e9b6fcbcc6db completed April 9, 2026, 12:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d7998acbf881909b6f063c4bf2d0a6 completed April 9, 2026, 12:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d79aa0cc5481908bc14cda8fb6e8b1 completed April 9, 2026, 12:25 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:05 p.m.