Triple

T18707577
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Man in Grey E457413 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object D. M. Cotton
D. M. Cotton was a screenwriter known for his work on the classic British melodrama film "The Man in Grey."
 E1339074 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: D. M. Cotton | Statement: [The Man in Grey, screenwriter, D. M. Cotton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: D. M. Cotton
Context triple: [The Man in Grey, screenwriter, D. M. Cotton]
  • A. C. L. Clemons
    C. L. Clemons is an individual whose specific identity and notability are unclear from the available information.
  • B. J. L. Chestnut
    J. L. Chestnut was a prominent civil rights attorney and activist from Alabama, known for his legal work challenging racial segregation and discrimination in the American South.
  • C. M. S. Reardon
    M. S. Reardon was an early 20th-century film actor who appeared in the 1918 silent drama "Eye for Eye."
  • D. S. E. Allwright
    S. E. Allwright was the election official in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Smith v. Allwright, which struck down racially exclusive primary elections.
  • E. C. P. Atmore
    C. P. Atmore was a railroad official after whom the city of Atmore, Alabama, was named.
  • 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: D. M. Cotton
Triple: [The Man in Grey, screenwriter, D. M. Cotton]
Generated description
D. M. Cotton was a screenwriter known for his work on the classic British melodrama film "The Man in Grey."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: D. M. Cotton
Target entity description: D. M. Cotton was a screenwriter known for his work on the classic British melodrama film "The Man in Grey."
  • A. C. L. Clemons
    C. L. Clemons is an individual whose specific identity and notability are unclear from the available information.
  • B. J. L. Chestnut
    J. L. Chestnut was a prominent civil rights attorney and activist from Alabama, known for his legal work challenging racial segregation and discrimination in the American South.
  • C. M. S. Reardon
    M. S. Reardon was an early 20th-century film actor who appeared in the 1918 silent drama "Eye for Eye."
  • D. S. E. Allwright
    S. E. Allwright was the election official in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Smith v. Allwright, which struck down racially exclusive primary elections.
  • E. C. P. Atmore
    C. P. Atmore was a railroad official after whom the city of Atmore, Alabama, was named.
  • 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_69d8d392aad081909fe31aa03e6e97d1 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e567185c648190848ca47498eb56b3 completed April 19, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a052b3a95888190b09328d459164071 completed May 14, 2026, 1:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a052dec70cc8190b66909ce6225b2bb completed May 14, 2026, 2:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a052edba614819084d818fe1cc84ca4 completed May 14, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:50 a.m.