Triple

T17411812
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Patent Leather Kid E423383 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Gerald C. Duffy
Gerald C. Duffy was an American silent-era screenwriter known for his work on early Hollywood films and contributions to the development of motion picture storytelling.
E1332906 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: Gerald C. Duffy | Statement: [The Patent Leather Kid, screenwriter, Gerald C. Duffy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gerald C. Duffy
Context triple: [The Patent Leather Kid, screenwriter, Gerald C. Duffy]
  • A. Gerald S. O'Loughlin
    Gerald S. O'Loughlin was an American character actor and director known for his tough, authoritative roles in film and television, particularly in crime dramas of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • C. Vincent J. McDonough
    Vincent J. McDonough was a prominent figure at Georgetown University, honored for his contributions to the institution through the naming of McDonough Gymnasium.
  • D. Robert C. O'Brien
    Robert C. O'Brien was the pen name of American author Robert Leslie Conly, best known for his Newbery Medal–winning children's novel "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH."
  • E. Walter J. Donnelly
    Walter J. Donnelly was an American diplomat who served in senior postwar administrative roles in Germany following World War II.
  • 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: Gerald C. Duffy
Triple: [The Patent Leather Kid, screenwriter, Gerald C. Duffy]
Generated description
Gerald C. Duffy was an American silent-era screenwriter known for his work on early Hollywood films and contributions to the development of motion picture storytelling.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gerald C. Duffy
Target entity description: Gerald C. Duffy was an American silent-era screenwriter known for his work on early Hollywood films and contributions to the development of motion picture storytelling.
  • A. Gerald S. O'Loughlin
    Gerald S. O'Loughlin was an American character actor and director known for his tough, authoritative roles in film and television, particularly in crime dramas of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • C. Vincent J. McDonough
    Vincent J. McDonough was a prominent figure at Georgetown University, honored for his contributions to the institution through the naming of McDonough Gymnasium.
  • D. Robert C. O'Brien
    Robert C. O'Brien was the pen name of American author Robert Leslie Conly, best known for his Newbery Medal–winning children's novel "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH."
  • E. Walter J. Donnelly
    Walter J. Donnelly was an American diplomat who served in senior postwar administrative roles in Germany following World War II.
  • 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_6a05036623808190b5de95789b8fef53 completed May 13, 2026, 11:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0504bec9c0819080fb95d8b4c0dd97 completed May 13, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a050511ae448190ba2365b5caa4ce78 completed May 13, 2026, 11:11 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:46 a.m.