Triple

T13602874
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Magic (1978 film) E324986 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Corky Withers
Corky Withers is the psychologically troubled ventriloquist at the center of the horror film "Magic," whose increasingly unstable relationship with his dummy drives the story's suspense and terror.
E1052809 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: Corky Withers | Statement: [Magic (1978 film), mainCharacter, Corky Withers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Corky Withers
Context triple: [Magic (1978 film), mainCharacter, Corky Withers]
  • A. Lonny Baxter
    Lonny Baxter is a former American professional basketball player best known for starring on the University of Maryland team that won the 2002 NCAA championship.
  • B. Vernan Keenan
    Vernan Keenan was an American roller coaster designer best known for creating the iconic Cyclone wooden coaster at Coney Island.
  • C. Bobby Donnell
    Bobby Donnell is a fictional defense attorney and founding partner of a small Boston law firm in the legal drama series "The Practice."
  • D. Billy Kinsley
    Billy Kinsley is an English musician best known as a founding member, vocalist, and bassist of the 1960s Merseybeat band The Merseybeats.
  • E. Jerry Durrance
    Jerry Durrance is a sophisticated but manipulative romantic rival in the classic 1942 film "Now, Voyager."
  • 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: Corky Withers
Triple: [Magic (1978 film), mainCharacter, Corky Withers]
Generated description
Corky Withers is the psychologically troubled ventriloquist at the center of the horror film "Magic," whose increasingly unstable relationship with his dummy drives the story's suspense and terror.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Corky Withers
Target entity description: Corky Withers is the psychologically troubled ventriloquist at the center of the horror film "Magic," whose increasingly unstable relationship with his dummy drives the story's suspense and terror.
  • A. Lonny Baxter
    Lonny Baxter is a former American professional basketball player best known for starring on the University of Maryland team that won the 2002 NCAA championship.
  • B. Vernan Keenan
    Vernan Keenan was an American roller coaster designer best known for creating the iconic Cyclone wooden coaster at Coney Island.
  • C. Bobby Donnell
    Bobby Donnell is a fictional defense attorney and founding partner of a small Boston law firm in the legal drama series "The Practice."
  • D. Billy Kinsley
    Billy Kinsley is an English musician best known as a founding member, vocalist, and bassist of the 1960s Merseybeat band The Merseybeats.
  • E. Jerry Durrance
    Jerry Durrance is a sophisticated but manipulative romantic rival in the classic 1942 film "Now, Voyager."
  • 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_69d80769eaf081909d82f44e484d6113 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbb07ca07481909c45da551ea61ab4 completed April 12, 2026, 2:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f78ae394748190b6a0f9a085b7dea6 completed May 3, 2026, 5:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f78c0030e481909c20f21ddaa480dc completed May 3, 2026, 5:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f78d6d74bc8190ad5476a06e8fd8ad completed May 3, 2026, 6:01 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:49 p.m.