Triple

T17411810
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Patent Leather Kid E423383 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Alfred Santell
Alfred Santell was an American film director active during the silent and early sound eras, known for helming a wide range of dramas and comedies in Hollywood.
E1278222 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: Alfred Santell | Statement: [The Patent Leather Kid, director, Alfred Santell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred Santell
Context triple: [The Patent Leather Kid, director, Alfred Santell]
  • A. Norman Taurog
    Norman Taurog was an American film director best known for his prolific work in Hollywood comedies and musicals, including several films with stars like Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and later Elvis Presley.
  • B. Robert McLane
    Robert McLane was an American businessman best known as the founder of McLane Company, a major supply chain services and wholesale distribution firm.
  • C. Stuart Merrill
    Stuart Merrill was an American-born French Symbolist poet known for his musical, dreamlike verse and his involvement in late 19th-century Parisian literary circles.
  • D. George Marden
    George Marden is a central character in A. A. Milne’s play "Mr. Pim Passes By," portrayed as a conventional country gentleman whose orderly life is disrupted by a stranger’s news.
  • E. Gregory Ratoff
    Gregory Ratoff was a Russian-born American actor, director, and producer known for his character roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • 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: Alfred Santell
Triple: [The Patent Leather Kid, director, Alfred Santell]
Generated description
Alfred Santell was an American film director active during the silent and early sound eras, known for helming a wide range of dramas and comedies in Hollywood.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred Santell
Target entity description: Alfred Santell was an American film director active during the silent and early sound eras, known for helming a wide range of dramas and comedies in Hollywood.
  • A. Norman Taurog
    Norman Taurog was an American film director best known for his prolific work in Hollywood comedies and musicals, including several films with stars like Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and later Elvis Presley.
  • B. Robert McLane
    Robert McLane was an American businessman best known as the founder of McLane Company, a major supply chain services and wholesale distribution firm.
  • C. Stuart Merrill
    Stuart Merrill was an American-born French Symbolist poet known for his musical, dreamlike verse and his involvement in late 19th-century Parisian literary circles.
  • D. George Marden
    George Marden is a central character in A. A. Milne’s play "Mr. Pim Passes By," portrayed as a conventional country gentleman whose orderly life is disrupted by a stranger’s news.
  • E. Gregory Ratoff
    Gregory Ratoff was a Russian-born American actor, director, and producer known for his character roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • 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_69d889d7d27c819088486ce3f0627fa1 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e43b0b56788190ba012788f32afb78 completed April 19, 2026, 2:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01e806a5548190bad1985a55382758 completed May 11, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01ef5eba508190b35876cc60b0dc60 completed May 11, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01ef87c62c8190b9a3cd936542d7b4 completed May 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:46 a.m.