Triple

T20807892
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Buccaneer (1958 film) E512211 entity
Predicate hasCastMember P2308 FINISHED
Object James Westerfield
James Westerfield was an American character actor known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century film and television, often portraying gruff or authoritative supporting roles.
E1451646 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 Westerfield | Statement: [The Buccaneer (1958 film), hasCastMember, James Westerfield]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Westerfield
Context triple: [The Buccaneer (1958 film), hasCastMember, James Westerfield]
  • A. Michael C. Jensen
    Michael C. Jensen is an influential American economist and financial theorist best known for his work on agency theory, corporate governance, and executive compensation.
  • B. Robert Scudder
    Robert Scudder is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Scudder.
  • C. Michael Woodford
    Michael Woodford is an influential American economist best known for his work on monetary theory and policy within the New Keynesian framework, particularly through his seminal book "Interest and Prices."
  • D. James Gurley
    James Gurley was an American rock guitarist best known for his influential, psychedelic guitar work with the 1960s San Francisco band Big Brother and the Holding Company, fronted by Janis Joplin.
  • E. Keith Barish
    Keith Barish is an American film producer and financier known for founding Keith Barish Productions and co-founding the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain.
  • 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 Westerfield
Triple: [The Buccaneer (1958 film), hasCastMember, James Westerfield]
Generated description
James Westerfield was an American character actor known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century film and television, often portraying gruff or authoritative supporting roles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Westerfield
Target entity description: James Westerfield was an American character actor known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century film and television, often portraying gruff or authoritative supporting roles.
  • A. Michael C. Jensen
    Michael C. Jensen is an influential American economist and financial theorist best known for his work on agency theory, corporate governance, and executive compensation.
  • B. Robert Scudder
    Robert Scudder is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Scudder.
  • C. Michael Woodford
    Michael Woodford is an influential American economist best known for his work on monetary theory and policy within the New Keynesian framework, particularly through his seminal book "Interest and Prices."
  • D. James Gurley
    James Gurley was an American rock guitarist best known for his influential, psychedelic guitar work with the 1960s San Francisco band Big Brother and the Holding Company, fronted by Janis Joplin.
  • E. Keith Barish
    Keith Barish is an American film producer and financier known for founding Keith Barish Productions and co-founding the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain.
  • 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_69e0b4cc69f481908e98751e697b9df4 completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c2d0a2a081908fb0e3d890e87aaf completed April 21, 2026, 12:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08f8c979d481909dfa2aa97b1cefab completed May 16, 2026, 11:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08f9deb9248190af178b5c28728e00 completed May 16, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08fa80202c8190929f8f1b47d6fae4 completed May 16, 2026, 11:15 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:40 p.m.