Triple

T11253772
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth E266385 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Robert B. Weide
Robert B. Weide is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his work on the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and various documentaries about comedians.
E1221731 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: Robert B. Weide | Statement: [Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth, director, Robert B. Weide]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert B. Weide
Context triple: [Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth, director, Robert B. Weide]
  • A. James S. Voss
    James S. Voss is a retired U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent over five months aboard the International Space Station.
  • B. Wayne A. Wiegand
    Wayne A. Wiegand is an American library historian and author known for his influential scholarship on the history of libraries, reading, and print culture in the United States.
  • C. Timothy L. Pflueger
    Timothy L. Pflueger was a prominent American architect known for his influential Art Deco and Moderne designs in the San Francisco Bay Area, including major theaters, skyscrapers, and civic projects.
  • D. James A. Abrahamson
    James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
  • E. Thomas J. Biersteker
    Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his work on global governance, sanctions, and international security.
  • 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: Robert B. Weide
Triple: [Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth, director, Robert B. Weide]
Generated description
Robert B. Weide is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his work on the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and various documentaries about comedians.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert B. Weide
Target entity description: Robert B. Weide is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his work on the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and various documentaries about comedians.
  • A. James S. Voss
    James S. Voss is a retired U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent over five months aboard the International Space Station.
  • B. Wayne A. Wiegand
    Wayne A. Wiegand is an American library historian and author known for his influential scholarship on the history of libraries, reading, and print culture in the United States.
  • C. Timothy L. Pflueger
    Timothy L. Pflueger was a prominent American architect known for his influential Art Deco and Moderne designs in the San Francisco Bay Area, including major theaters, skyscrapers, and civic projects.
  • D. James A. Abrahamson
    James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
  • E. Thomas J. Biersteker
    Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his work on global governance, sanctions, and international security.
  • 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_69d6aac7953c8190b82caf9d7640fdf9 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e9346f4c8190b29c2cf3a29cd1d1 completed April 9, 2026, 6 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a006ec7a4748190822e66a756bc95b9 completed May 10, 2026, 11:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a006fa02870819083c1b25eb4c8ffad completed May 10, 2026, 11:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0070aee0248190b3463b98a739d1ae completed May 10, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.