Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hertzfeld E474891 entity
Predicate hasSpellingVariant P457 FINISHED
Object Hertzfeldt
Hertzfeldt is a surname most notably associated with Don Hertzfeldt, an American independent animator and filmmaker known for his distinctive hand-drawn style and darkly comedic short films.
E859959 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: Hertzfeldt | Statement: [Hertzfeld, hasSpellingVariant, Hertzfeldt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hertzfeldt
Context triple: [Hertzfeld, hasSpellingVariant, Hertzfeldt]
  • A. Ari Folman
    Ari Folman is an Israeli film director, screenwriter, and animator best known for his innovative, autobiographical animated documentary "Waltz with Bashir."
  • B. Craig Thompson
    Craig Thompson is an acclaimed American graphic novelist best known for works like "Blankets" and "Habibi," noted for their intricate artwork and deeply personal storytelling.
  • C. Bill Plympton
    Bill Plympton is an American animator, cartoonist, and independent filmmaker renowned for his distinctive hand-drawn style and surreal, often darkly comic animated shorts and features.
  • D. Genndy Tartakovsky
    Genndy Tartakovsky is an acclaimed animator, director, and producer best known for creating influential animated series such as Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Star Wars: Clone Wars.
  • E. Wil Andersen
    Wil Andersen is the tough, aging rancher portrayed by John Wayne who leads a group of inexperienced boys on a perilous cattle drive in the Western film "The Cowboys."
  • 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: Hertzfeldt
Triple: [Hertzfeld, hasSpellingVariant, Hertzfeldt]
Generated description
Hertzfeldt is a surname most notably associated with Don Hertzfeldt, an American independent animator and filmmaker known for his distinctive hand-drawn style and darkly comedic short films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hertzfeldt
Target entity description: Hertzfeldt is a surname most notably associated with Don Hertzfeldt, an American independent animator and filmmaker known for his distinctive hand-drawn style and darkly comedic short films.
  • A. Ari Folman
    Ari Folman is an Israeli film director, screenwriter, and animator best known for his innovative, autobiographical animated documentary "Waltz with Bashir."
  • B. Craig Thompson
    Craig Thompson is an acclaimed American graphic novelist best known for works like "Blankets" and "Habibi," noted for their intricate artwork and deeply personal storytelling.
  • C. Bill Plympton chosen
    Bill Plympton is an American animator, cartoonist, and independent filmmaker renowned for his distinctive hand-drawn style and surreal, often darkly comic animated shorts and features.
  • D. Genndy Tartakovsky
    Genndy Tartakovsky is an acclaimed animator, director, and producer best known for creating influential animated series such as Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Star Wars: Clone Wars.
  • E. Wil Andersen
    Wil Andersen is the tough, aging rancher portrayed by John Wayne who leads a group of inexperienced boys on a perilous cattle drive in the Western film "The Cowboys."
  • 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_69d8e51a43a08190956bc6df13c91a77 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6535bd8c0819097671783962b6bc5 completed April 20, 2026, 4:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07bd74937081908b81d144aa89c5f3 completed May 16, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07be450e608190a008095b0502b2d3 completed May 16, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07bed4c8d8819094fafce7eee69ee7 completed May 16, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:48 p.m.