Triple

T20881731
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Shootist E514168 entity
Predicate producer P490 FINISHED
Object William Self
William Self was an American film and television producer and studio executive known for overseeing numerous projects at 20th Century Fox and producing notable films and TV series in the mid-20th century.
 E1455601 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: William Self | Statement: [The Shootist, producer, William Self]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Self
Context triple: [The Shootist, producer, William Self]
  • A. Don Self
    Don Self is a duplicitous Homeland Security agent in the TV series "Prison Break," known for recruiting Michael Scofield’s team before ultimately betraying them in season 4.
  • B. John Self
    John Self is the hard-drinking, self-destructive advertising man who narrates Martin Amis’s darkly comic novel "Money: A Suicide Note."
  • C. David Self
    David Self is an American screenwriter known for his work on films such as "Road to Perdition" and other major Hollywood projects.
  • D. Michael Alsbury
    Michael Alsbury was an American test pilot for Scaled Composites who was killed during a 2014 test flight of the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane.
  • E. Robert Keene
    Robert Keene was the husband of American Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan.
  • 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: William Self
Triple: [The Shootist, producer, William Self]
Generated description
William Self was an American film and television producer and studio executive known for overseeing numerous projects at 20th Century Fox and producing notable films and TV series in the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Self
Target entity description: William Self was an American film and television producer and studio executive known for overseeing numerous projects at 20th Century Fox and producing notable films and TV series in the mid-20th century.
  • A. Don Self
    Don Self is a duplicitous Homeland Security agent in the TV series "Prison Break," known for recruiting Michael Scofield’s team before ultimately betraying them in season 4.
  • B. John Self
    John Self is the hard-drinking, self-destructive advertising man who narrates Martin Amis’s darkly comic novel "Money: A Suicide Note."
  • C. David Self
    David Self is an American screenwriter known for his work on films such as "Road to Perdition" and other major Hollywood projects.
  • D. Michael Alsbury
    Michael Alsbury was an American test pilot for Scaled Composites who was killed during a 2014 test flight of the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane.
  • E. Robert Keene
    Robert Keene was the husband of American Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan.
  • 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_69e0b4f733f081908a401c0b7beb0b9f completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c67a33548190b0f5ba58b001d387 completed April 21, 2026, 12:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0913a46d808190a39fc27ecbb31e99 completed May 17, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09145a9b0481909086941cdd981e1a completed May 17, 2026, 1:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0914f1925081909bce8ad0932c6722 completed May 17, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:46 p.m.