Triple

T18000691
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shape of My Heart E430617 entity
Predicate musicVideoDirector P4911 FINISHED
Object Doug Nichol
Doug Nichol is a British-born film and music video director known for his visually distinctive work with major artists and for directing the documentary "California Typewriter."
 E1300700 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: Doug Nichol | Statement: [Shape of My Heart, musicVideoDirector, Doug Nichol]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Doug Nichol
Context triple: [Shape of My Heart, musicVideoDirector, Doug Nichol]
  • A. Don Nicholl
    Don Nicholl was a British-born television writer and producer best known for co-creating influential American sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • B. Bill Nichols
    Bill Nichols is a prominent American film theorist best known for pioneering the study and classification of documentary film modes.
  • C. Lee M. Russell
    Lee M. Russell was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Mississippi in the early 20th century.
  • D. David Nichols
    David Nichols is an Australian musician best known as a member of the indie pop band The Cannanes.
  • E. John Hyams
    John Hyams is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter known for his work in action and horror, including the series "Black Summer" and entries in the "Universal Soldier" franchise.
  • 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: Doug Nichol
Triple: [Shape of My Heart, musicVideoDirector, Doug Nichol]
Generated description
Doug Nichol is a British-born film and music video director known for his visually distinctive work with major artists and for directing the documentary "California Typewriter."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Doug Nichol
Target entity description: Doug Nichol is a British-born film and music video director known for his visually distinctive work with major artists and for directing the documentary "California Typewriter."
  • A. Don Nicholl
    Don Nicholl was a British-born television writer and producer best known for co-creating influential American sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • B. Bill Nichols
    Bill Nichols is a prominent American film theorist best known for pioneering the study and classification of documentary film modes.
  • C. Lee M. Russell
    Lee M. Russell was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Mississippi in the early 20th century.
  • D. David Nichols
    David Nichols is an Australian musician best known as a member of the indie pop band The Cannanes.
  • E. John Hyams
    John Hyams is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter known for his work in action and horror, including the series "Black Summer" and entries in the "Universal Soldier" franchise.
  • 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_69d8b90364248190a37381adea932f42 completed April 10, 2026, 8:46 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4b3e82ca48190aeb53e03c95ef223 completed April 19, 2026, 10:52 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0337b4e89c8190aad204abff18635b completed May 12, 2026, 2:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a033ca6a2608190a391694153070cc8 completed May 12, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a033d6bf3f48190ac141febc04608f6 completed May 12, 2026, 2:47 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:23 a.m.