Triple

T10676727
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Born Yesterday E251639 entity
Predicate producer P490 FINISHED
Object S. Sylvan Simon
S. Sylvan Simon was an American film director and producer active in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, known for his work on comedies and studio features.
 E878669 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: S. Sylvan Simon | Statement: [Born Yesterday, producer, S. Sylvan Simon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: S. Sylvan Simon
Context triple: [Born Yesterday, producer, S. Sylvan Simon]
  • A. Richard L. Simon
    Richard L. Simon was an American publisher and co-founder of the major publishing house Simon & Schuster.
  • B. Sidney Simon
    Sidney Simon was an American painter, sculptor, and influential art educator who co-founded the renowned Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.
  • C. Ben Sobel
    Ben Sobel is a neurotic psychiatrist who becomes entangled with a mob boss as his reluctant therapist in the comedy film "Analyze This."
  • D. Ralph Rosenblum
    Ralph Rosenblum was an American film editor best known for his influential work on landmark comedies and dramas, including several early Woody Allen films.
  • E. Philip Brenner
    Philip Brenner is a scholar and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and Latin American studies, often collaborating with historian James G. Blight.
  • 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: S. Sylvan Simon
Triple: [Born Yesterday, producer, S. Sylvan Simon]
Generated description
S. Sylvan Simon was an American film director and producer active in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, known for his work on comedies and studio features.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: S. Sylvan Simon
Target entity description: S. Sylvan Simon was an American film director and producer active in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, known for his work on comedies and studio features.
  • A. Richard L. Simon
    Richard L. Simon was an American publisher and co-founder of the major publishing house Simon & Schuster.
  • B. Sidney Simon
    Sidney Simon was an American painter, sculptor, and influential art educator who co-founded the renowned Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.
  • C. Ben Sobel
    Ben Sobel is a neurotic psychiatrist who becomes entangled with a mob boss as his reluctant therapist in the comedy film "Analyze This."
  • D. Ralph Rosenblum
    Ralph Rosenblum was an American film editor best known for his influential work on landmark comedies and dramas, including several early Woody Allen films.
  • E. Philip Brenner
    Philip Brenner is a scholar and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and Latin American studies, often collaborating with historian James G. Blight.
  • 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_69d6aa5b0d2881909584b20efc5877f0 completed April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d6fb94b05c8190b66bf64f5c6d166b completed April 9, 2026, 1:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d98876222c8190be638bdfa3ce4ceb completed April 10, 2026, 11:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d98aea391c81909ec64a29053c35c1 completed April 10, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d98c013348819094bde38a057257b4 completed April 10, 2026, 11:47 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:09 p.m.