Triple

T20397058
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tod Browning E500232 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Charles Albert Browning Jr.
Charles Albert Browning Jr., better known as Tod Browning, was an American film director famed for his dark, expressionistic horror films such as "Dracula" (1931) and "Freaks" (1932).
E1427619 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: Charles Albert Browning Jr. | Statement: [Tod Browning, birthName, Charles Albert Browning Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Albert Browning Jr.
Context triple: [Tod Browning, birthName, Charles Albert Browning Jr.]
  • A. William George Ward
    William George Ward was a 19th-century English theologian and controversialist, noted for his leading role in the Oxford Movement and later conversion to Roman Catholicism.
  • B. Charles Browne
    Charles Browne was a participant in the 1894 Coxey's Army protest march of unemployed workers in the United States.
  • C. Albert Child
    Albert Child is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Child, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
  • D. Henry Stuart Hughes
    Henry Stuart Hughes was an American historian and intellectual known for his work on modern European history and his involvement in liberal politics and nuclear disarmament movements in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Charles Wallace Chapman
    Charles Wallace Chapman was a British engineer and industrialist best known for co-founding and developing diesel engine technology at Perkins Engines.
  • 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: Charles Albert Browning Jr.
Triple: [Tod Browning, birthName, Charles Albert Browning Jr.]
Generated description
Charles Albert Browning Jr., better known as Tod Browning, was an American film director famed for his dark, expressionistic horror films such as "Dracula" (1931) and "Freaks" (1932).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Albert Browning Jr.
Target entity description: Charles Albert Browning Jr., better known as Tod Browning, was an American film director famed for his dark, expressionistic horror films such as "Dracula" (1931) and "Freaks" (1932).
  • A. William George Ward
    William George Ward was a 19th-century English theologian and controversialist, noted for his leading role in the Oxford Movement and later conversion to Roman Catholicism.
  • B. Charles Browne
    Charles Browne was a participant in the 1894 Coxey's Army protest march of unemployed workers in the United States.
  • C. Albert Child
    Albert Child is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Child, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
  • D. Henry Stuart Hughes
    Henry Stuart Hughes was an American historian and intellectual known for his work on modern European history and his involvement in liberal politics and nuclear disarmament movements in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Charles Wallace Chapman
    Charles Wallace Chapman was a British engineer and industrialist best known for co-founding and developing diesel engine technology at Perkins Engines.
  • 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_69e0b4a81bec8190b69adfdc1336a015 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6798b6640819085d5b12dc35633fe completed April 20, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a087629f618819086c4747990ceb22f completed May 16, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0876cc45b88190a7179ca4d518f899 completed May 16, 2026, 1:53 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0877355bc08190909694d1bb0c3e67 completed May 16, 2026, 1:55 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:28 a.m.