Triple

T21666551
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alibi Ike E534734 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object William Wister Haines
William Wister Haines was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter best known for his works about aviation and World War II, including the novel "High Tension" and the play "Command Decision."
E1497486 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 Wister Haines | Statement: [Alibi Ike, screenwriter, William Wister Haines]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Wister Haines
Context triple: [Alibi Ike, screenwriter, William Wister Haines]
  • A. William Haines
    William Haines was a 19th-century Australian politician who became the first Premier of the colony of Victoria, helping to establish its early system of responsible government.
  • B. William Haines
    William Haines was a popular American silent film actor of the 1920s who later became a successful interior designer after his Hollywood career declined.
  • C. Warren William
    Warren William was an American stage and film actor of the 1930s, best known for his suave, often morally ambiguous leading and supporting roles in Hollywood pre-Code dramas and mysteries.
  • D. Harry Davenport
    Harry Davenport was an American character actor best known for his numerous supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • E. Zasu Pitts
    Zasu Pitts was an American actress best known for her distinctive comedic persona in early Hollywood films and later in radio and television.
  • 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 Wister Haines
Triple: [Alibi Ike, screenwriter, William Wister Haines]
Generated description
William Wister Haines was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter best known for his works about aviation and World War II, including the novel "High Tension" and the play "Command Decision."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Wister Haines
Target entity description: William Wister Haines was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter best known for his works about aviation and World War II, including the novel "High Tension" and the play "Command Decision."
  • A. William Haines
    William Haines was a popular American silent film actor of the 1920s who later became a successful interior designer after his Hollywood career declined.
  • B. William Haines
    William Haines was a 19th-century Australian politician who became the first Premier of the colony of Victoria, helping to establish its early system of responsible government.
  • C. Warren William
    Warren William was an American stage and film actor of the 1930s, best known for his suave, often morally ambiguous leading and supporting roles in Hollywood pre-Code dramas and mysteries.
  • D. Harry Davenport
    Harry Davenport was an American character actor best known for his numerous supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • E. Zasu Pitts
    Zasu Pitts was an American actress best known for her distinctive comedic persona in early Hollywood films and later in radio and television.
  • 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_69e0c46898008190aa618a4af55bd1ee completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ef6c0c236881909ffaefea8601b1c2 completed April 27, 2026, 2 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a1e11bf0c819085b44a3147df8e7e completed May 17, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a21c546848190a193fbbe98472e7c completed May 17, 2026, 8:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a224636b88190ad546869eafe9d7d completed May 17, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:37 p.m.