Triple

T10394935
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Men Who Stare at Goats (film) E244986 entity
Predicate producer P490 FINISHED
Object Paul Lister
Paul Lister is a film producer known for his work on the satirical war comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
E859528 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: Paul Lister | Statement: [The Men Who Stare at Goats (film), producer, Paul Lister]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Lister
Context triple: [The Men Who Stare at Goats (film), producer, Paul Lister]
  • A. William Pritchard
    William Pritchard is a Canadian municipal politician known for serving as the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
  • B. Andrew Lapham
    Andrew Lapham is a Canadian businessman known for his marriage to politician Caroline Mulroney and his work in finance and private equity.
  • C. Lawrence Fassett
    Lawrence Fassett is a manipulative CIA operative who orchestrates a deadly surveillance scheme in Robert Ludlum’s thriller "The Osterman Weekend."
  • D. Charles Fergusson
    Charles Fergusson was a senior British Army officer and general who played a prominent command role on the Western Front during World War I.
  • E. Charles Pritchard
    Charles Pritchard was a 19th-century British astronomer and clergyman known for his pioneering work in stellar photometry and his influential role in developing observational astronomy at Oxford.
  • 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: Paul Lister
Triple: [The Men Who Stare at Goats (film), producer, Paul Lister]
Generated description
Paul Lister is a film producer known for his work on the satirical war comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Lister
Target entity description: Paul Lister is a film producer known for his work on the satirical war comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
  • A. William Pritchard
    William Pritchard is a Canadian municipal politician known for serving as the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
  • B. Andrew Lapham
    Andrew Lapham is a Canadian businessman known for his marriage to politician Caroline Mulroney and his work in finance and private equity.
  • C. Lawrence Fassett
    Lawrence Fassett is a manipulative CIA operative who orchestrates a deadly surveillance scheme in Robert Ludlum’s thriller "The Osterman Weekend."
  • D. Charles Fergusson
    Charles Fergusson was a senior British Army officer and general who played a prominent command role on the Western Front during World War I.
  • E. Charles Pritchard
    Charles Pritchard was a 19th-century British astronomer and clergyman known for his pioneering work in stellar photometry and his influential role in developing observational astronomy at Oxford.
  • 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_69d4e9ce6bb08190bfeaba98a126526d completed April 7, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d795c8271c81908a6b67822050c06d completed April 9, 2026, 12:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d7975308648190af421c90bd1200b7 completed April 9, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d798e6721c81909647d27ce0aa615a completed April 9, 2026, 12:17 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:06 p.m.