Triple

T20397966
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Naked City E500257 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Malvin Wald
Malvin Wald was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic film noir and crime dramas, including the influential 1948 film "The Naked City."
 E1427683 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: Malvin Wald | Statement: [The Naked City, screenwriter, Malvin Wald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Malvin Wald
Context triple: [The Naked City, screenwriter, Malvin Wald]
  • A. Melvin Frank
    Melvin Frank was an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century comedies.
  • B. Melvin Simon
    Melvin Simon was an American real estate developer and businessman best known as a co-founder of the major shopping mall company Simon Property Group.
  • C. Marvin Duchow
    Marvin Duchow was a Canadian musicologist and influential professor of music at McGill University, known for his scholarship in Renaissance and Baroque music.
  • D. Melvin Goodman
    Melvin Goodman is an American former CIA analyst, author, and national security expert known for his outspoken criticism of U.S. intelligence practices and foreign policy.
  • E. Oscar Lerman
    Oscar Lerman was a British nightclub owner and art dealer best known as the husband of novelist Jackie Collins.
  • 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: Malvin Wald
Triple: [The Naked City, screenwriter, Malvin Wald]
Generated description
Malvin Wald was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic film noir and crime dramas, including the influential 1948 film "The Naked City."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Malvin Wald
Target entity description: Malvin Wald was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic film noir and crime dramas, including the influential 1948 film "The Naked City."
  • A. Melvin Frank
    Melvin Frank was an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century comedies.
  • B. Melvin Simon
    Melvin Simon was an American real estate developer and businessman best known as a co-founder of the major shopping mall company Simon Property Group.
  • C. Marvin Duchow
    Marvin Duchow was a Canadian musicologist and influential professor of music at McGill University, known for his scholarship in Renaissance and Baroque music.
  • D. Melvin Goodman
    Melvin Goodman is an American former CIA analyst, author, and national security expert known for his outspoken criticism of U.S. intelligence practices and foreign policy.
  • E. Oscar Lerman
    Oscar Lerman was a British nightclub owner and art dealer best known as the husband of novelist Jackie Collins.
  • 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.