Triple

T20397725
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Giant Claw E500252 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Samuel Newman
Samuel Newman was a mid-20th-century American screenwriter best known for his work on science fiction and genre films.
E1427660 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: Samuel Newman | Statement: [The Giant Claw, screenwriter, Samuel Newman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Newman
Context triple: [The Giant Claw, screenwriter, Samuel Newman]
  • A. Jack Newman
    Jack Newman is best known as a former husband of American actress and 1950s sex symbol Mamie Van Doren.
  • B. Samuel Marks
    Samuel Marks is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability or distinguishing achievements are not clearly established from the given information.
  • C. Lionel Newman
    Lionel Newman was an American composer and conductor best known for his work in film and television music, including a long association with 20th Century Fox.
  • D. Samuel Lester
    Samuel Lester is the full given name of Les Snead, the American football executive best known as the general manager of the Los Angeles Rams.
  • E. Benjamin Hurwood
    Benjamin Hurwood is a sinister 18th-century English physician-turned-necromancer in Tim Powers’ fantasy novel "On Stranger Tides," obsessed with harnessing dark magic and the power of the Fountain of Youth.
  • 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: Samuel Newman
Triple: [The Giant Claw, screenwriter, Samuel Newman]
Generated description
Samuel Newman was a mid-20th-century American screenwriter best known for his work on science fiction and genre films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Newman
Target entity description: Samuel Newman was a mid-20th-century American screenwriter best known for his work on science fiction and genre films.
  • A. Jack Newman
    Jack Newman is best known as a former husband of American actress and 1950s sex symbol Mamie Van Doren.
  • B. Samuel Marks
    Samuel Marks is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability or distinguishing achievements are not clearly established from the given information.
  • C. Lionel Newman
    Lionel Newman was an American composer and conductor best known for his work in film and television music, including a long association with 20th Century Fox.
  • D. Samuel Lester
    Samuel Lester is the full given name of Les Snead, the American football executive best known as the general manager of the Los Angeles Rams.
  • E. Benjamin Hurwood
    Benjamin Hurwood is a sinister 18th-century English physician-turned-necromancer in Tim Powers’ fantasy novel "On Stranger Tides," obsessed with harnessing dark magic and the power of the Fountain of Youth.
  • 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_69e6798c2b28819092fab93f01218cde 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, 11:29 a.m.