Triple

T10953981
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject W. C. Fields E258794 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man
"You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man" is a 1939 American comedy film starring W. C. Fields as a shady circus owner entangled in a series of farcical misadventures.
 E894922 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: You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man | Statement: [W. C. Fields, notableWork, You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man
Context triple: [W. C. Fields, notableWork, You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man]
  • A. There Was a Crooked Man
    "There Was a Crooked Man" is a British comedy film featuring Norman Wisdom in one of his characteristic comic roles.
  • B. The Best a Man Can Get
    "The Best a Man Can Get" is a famous Gillette advertising slogan associated with its razor and men's grooming products campaigns worldwide.
  • C. Coward Chance
    Coward Chance was a prominent British law firm that later became part of the global legal practice Clifford Chance.
  • D. Ballad of a Thin Man
    "Ballad of a Thin Man" is a dark, surreal Bob Dylan song known for its biting critique of clueless establishment figures and its haunting, piano-driven sound.
  • E. A Man’s a Man
    "A Man’s a Man" is an early satirical play by Bertolt Brecht that explores themes of identity, dehumanization, and the malleability of the individual within militaristic and capitalist systems.
  • 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: You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man
Triple: [W. C. Fields, notableWork, You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man]
Generated description
"You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man" is a 1939 American comedy film starring W. C. Fields as a shady circus owner entangled in a series of farcical misadventures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man
Target entity description: "You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man" is a 1939 American comedy film starring W. C. Fields as a shady circus owner entangled in a series of farcical misadventures.
  • A. There Was a Crooked Man
    "There Was a Crooked Man" is a British comedy film featuring Norman Wisdom in one of his characteristic comic roles.
  • B. The Best a Man Can Get
    "The Best a Man Can Get" is a famous Gillette advertising slogan associated with its razor and men's grooming products campaigns worldwide.
  • C. Coward Chance
    Coward Chance was a prominent British law firm that later became part of the global legal practice Clifford Chance.
  • D. Ballad of a Thin Man
    "Ballad of a Thin Man" is a dark, surreal Bob Dylan song known for its biting critique of clueless establishment figures and its haunting, piano-driven sound.
  • E. A Man’s a Man
    "A Man’s a Man" is an early satirical play by Bertolt Brecht that explores themes of identity, dehumanization, and the malleability of the individual within militaristic and capitalist systems.
  • 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_69d6aa88500c819097d7032ca578e74f completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d770fe4cfc81909032296c31e077f0 completed April 9, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e23c64089c8190a9c0aa63d7e7dc64 completed April 17, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e24543bd2c8190a3c807baa76c30f6 completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e25d11ef24819091e730ae2416a058 completed April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:23 p.m.