Triple

T21766561
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Whistler (1944 film) E537307 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Earl C. Conrad
Earl C. Conrad is the central protagonist of the 1944 mystery film "The Whistler," around whom the film’s suspenseful plot revolves.
 E1549542 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: Earl C. Conrad | Statement: [The Whistler (1944 film), mainCharacter, Earl C. Conrad]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Earl C. Conrad
Context triple: [The Whistler (1944 film), mainCharacter, Earl C. Conrad]
  • A. Charles F. Kennel
    Charles F. Kennel is an American plasma physicist and space scientist known for his leadership at NASA and contributions to understanding the Earth's magnetosphere and space environment.
  • B. Allen F. Nicholls
    Allen F. Nicholls is an American actor and filmmaker best known for his work in 1970s independent cinema and his collaborations with director Robert Altman.
  • C. William O. Collins
    William O. Collins was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and frontier military commander after whom the city of Fort Collins, Colorado, is named.
  • D. Clifton N. McArthur
    Clifton N. McArthur was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Oregon in the early 20th century.
  • E. William S. Skylstad
    William S. Skylstad is an American Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Spokane and was a prominent leader in the U.S. Catholic Church.
  • 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: Earl C. Conrad
Triple: [The Whistler (1944 film), mainCharacter, Earl C. Conrad]
Generated description
Earl C. Conrad is the central protagonist of the 1944 mystery film "The Whistler," around whom the film’s suspenseful plot revolves.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Earl C. Conrad
Target entity description: Earl C. Conrad is the central protagonist of the 1944 mystery film "The Whistler," around whom the film’s suspenseful plot revolves.
  • A. Charles F. Kennel
    Charles F. Kennel is an American plasma physicist and space scientist known for his leadership at NASA and contributions to understanding the Earth's magnetosphere and space environment.
  • B. Allen F. Nicholls
    Allen F. Nicholls is an American actor and filmmaker best known for his work in 1970s independent cinema and his collaborations with director Robert Altman.
  • C. William O. Collins
    William O. Collins was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and frontier military commander after whom the city of Fort Collins, Colorado, is named.
  • D. Clifton N. McArthur
    Clifton N. McArthur was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Oregon in the early 20th century.
  • E. William S. Skylstad
    William S. Skylstad is an American Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Spokane and was a prominent leader in the U.S. Catholic Church.
  • 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_69e0c46f5d1c8190bf830409e98464e5 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f031aa9c888190887c5c1d1e3bab9f completed April 28, 2026, 4:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b73cd90048190972ae88b6828f84a completed May 18, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b7ad64f38819086f403627f196573 completed May 18, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b7b1cc47081909f58b3462077c323 completed May 18, 2026, 8:48 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:51 p.m.