Triple

T20559080
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Velocity of Gary E504796 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object James Still
James Still is an American playwright and screenwriter known for his work in theater, film, and television, often exploring intimate human relationships and social issues.
E1437658 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: James Still | Statement: [The Velocity of Gary, screenwriter, James Still]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Still
Context triple: [The Velocity of Gary, screenwriter, James Still]
  • A. Hamlin Garland
    Hamlin Garland was an American author best known for his realistic portrayals of Midwestern farm life and his influential role in the development of regionalist, or local color, fiction.
  • B. Marion Toomer
    Marion Toomer is known primarily as the wife of renowned American roller coaster designer Ron Toomer.
  • C. C.E. Gaines
    C.E. Gaines was a prominent basketball coach and influential figure in American collegiate sports, particularly known for his long tenure at Winston-Salem State University.
  • D. Hardy Murfree
    Hardy Murfree was an American Revolutionary War officer from North Carolina whose military service and regional influence led to places such as Murfreesboro, Tennessee being named in his honor.
  • E. Lillian Smith
    Lillian Smith was a famed American sharpshooter and trick-shot artist of the late 19th century who gained prominence as a teenage rival to Annie Oakley in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show.
  • 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: James Still
Triple: [The Velocity of Gary, screenwriter, James Still]
Generated description
James Still is an American playwright and screenwriter known for his work in theater, film, and television, often exploring intimate human relationships and social issues.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Still
Target entity description: James Still is an American playwright and screenwriter known for his work in theater, film, and television, often exploring intimate human relationships and social issues.
  • A. Hamlin Garland
    Hamlin Garland was an American author best known for his realistic portrayals of Midwestern farm life and his influential role in the development of regionalist, or local color, fiction.
  • B. Marion Toomer
    Marion Toomer is known primarily as the wife of renowned American roller coaster designer Ron Toomer.
  • C. C.E. Gaines
    C.E. Gaines was a prominent basketball coach and influential figure in American collegiate sports, particularly known for his long tenure at Winston-Salem State University.
  • D. Hardy Murfree
    Hardy Murfree was an American Revolutionary War officer from North Carolina whose military service and regional influence led to places such as Murfreesboro, Tennessee being named in his honor.
  • E. Lillian Smith
    Lillian Smith was an American writer and civil rights advocate best known for her outspoken criticism of racial segregation in the mid-20th-century South.
  • 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_69e0b4b6587c8190aee63dc7cff244ea completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6a5e178648190910795bae5422e50 completed April 20, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08a5796df48190b96841c94a6311c0 completed May 16, 2026, 5:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08a68c08dc8190a09854800df82686 completed May 16, 2026, 5:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08a7331cc88190a9ed6056e5743e69 completed May 16, 2026, 5:19 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:38 a.m.