Triple

T19526398
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject W. R. Burnett E488528 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object William Riley Burnett
William Riley Burnett was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his influential crime fiction works that inspired numerous classic Hollywood films.
E1405089 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: William Riley Burnett | Statement: [W. R. Burnett, fullName, William Riley Burnett]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Riley Burnett
Context triple: [W. R. Burnett, fullName, William Riley Burnett]
  • A. Robert Burnett
    Robert Burnett was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for leading Allied naval forces during the Battle of the Barents Sea in World War II.
  • B. John F. Burnett
    John F. Burnett is an editor known for his work on the book "The Way We Were."
  • C. Elgin Turner
    Elgin Turner is the birth name of Masta Killa, an American rapper best known as a member of the influential hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
  • D. Hugo Barnstead
    Hugo Barnstead is a central character in the 1941 romantic comedy film "The Strawberry Blonde," portrayed as a brash, ambitious rival to the more easygoing protagonist.
  • E. Richard Burrell
    Richard Burrell is a British television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the long-running BBC crime drama series "New Tricks."
  • 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: William Riley Burnett
Triple: [W. R. Burnett, fullName, William Riley Burnett]
Generated description
William Riley Burnett was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his influential crime fiction works that inspired numerous classic Hollywood films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Riley Burnett
Target entity description: William Riley Burnett was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his influential crime fiction works that inspired numerous classic Hollywood films.
  • A. Robert Burnett
    Robert Burnett was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for leading Allied naval forces during the Battle of the Barents Sea in World War II.
  • B. John F. Burnett
    John F. Burnett is an editor known for his work on the book "The Way We Were."
  • C. Elgin Turner
    Elgin Turner is the birth name of Masta Killa, an American rapper best known as a member of the influential hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
  • D. Hugo Barnstead
    Hugo Barnstead is a central character in the 1941 romantic comedy film "The Strawberry Blonde," portrayed as a brash, ambitious rival to the more easygoing protagonist.
  • E. Richard Burrell
    Richard Burrell is a British television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the long-running BBC crime drama series "New Tricks."
  • 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_69d8e8da8bec819081f400199491ccc3 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6363aeb8c8190be2bdd73e421af96 completed April 20, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0804e432988190a8be2ee0be5b3584 completed May 16, 2026, 5:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0805b60dbc81908c82f9410f290e19 completed May 16, 2026, 5:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a080679b3e08190aba3254891e739ff completed May 16, 2026, 5:54 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:41 p.m.