Triple

T18821231
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Clan of the Cave Bear (film) E460267 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Michael Chapman
Michael Chapman was an American cinematographer and film director best known for shooting classics like "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull" and later directing several feature films.
 E136930 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: Michael Chapman | Statement: [The Clan of the Cave Bear (film), director, Michael Chapman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Michael Chapman
Context triple: [The Clan of the Cave Bear (film), director, Michael Chapman]
  • A. Michael Chapman
    Michael Chapman was an acclaimed American cinematographer best known for his influential work on landmark films of the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.
  • B. Johnny Brett
    Johnny Brett is a talented but underappreciated tap dancer and one of the central protagonists in the classic musical film "Broadway Melody of 1940."
  • C. Chris Smither
    Chris Smither is an American folk and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his intricate fingerpicking style and introspective, lyrically rich songs.
  • D. Michael Hurley
    Michael Hurley is an American folk singer-songwriter and artist known for his idiosyncratic, offbeat style and influential contributions to the 1960s and 1970s underground folk scene.
  • E. Gene Lyons
    Gene Lyons was an American character actor best known for his television work in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • 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: Michael Chapman
Triple: [The Clan of the Cave Bear (film), director, Michael Chapman]
Generated description
Michael Chapman was an American cinematographer and film director best known for shooting classics like "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull" and later directing several feature films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Michael Chapman
Target entity description: Michael Chapman was an American cinematographer and film director best known for shooting classics like "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull" and later directing several feature films.
  • A. Michael Chapman chosen
    Michael Chapman was an acclaimed American cinematographer best known for his influential work on landmark films of the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.
  • B. Johnny Brett
    Johnny Brett is a talented but underappreciated tap dancer and one of the central protagonists in the classic musical film "Broadway Melody of 1940."
  • C. Chris Smither
    Chris Smither is an American folk and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his intricate fingerpicking style and introspective, lyrically rich songs.
  • D. Michael Hurley
    Michael Hurley is an American folk singer-songwriter and artist known for his idiosyncratic, offbeat style and influential contributions to the 1960s and 1970s underground folk scene.
  • E. Gene Lyons
    Gene Lyons was an American character actor best known for his television work in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d8dcf94c288190a06dea029ae4b223 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5a6ba90988190a93e1c2fa23b3d1d completed April 20, 2026, 4:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a055bcc75e0819089a03d82965d3721 completed May 14, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a055d9a9da88190b974e8803ca8537f completed May 14, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a055e1a22308190bb7f2337fabc5bdf completed May 14, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.