Triple

T22085803
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Silver Trail E545770 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Bernard B. Ray
Bernard B. Ray was an American film director and producer active in the 1930s and 1940s, best known for his low-budget Westerns and serials in the early Hollywood B-movie era.
E1560192 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: Bernard B. Ray | Statement: [The Silver Trail, director, Bernard B. Ray]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard B. Ray
Context triple: [The Silver Trail, director, Bernard B. Ray]
  • A. Raymond N. Hirsch
    Raymond N. Hirsch was the husband of American actress Eleanor Parker, known for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Sound of Music."
  • B. Barry B. Benson
    Barry B. Benson is the idealistic and witty bee protagonist of the animated film "Bee Movie," known for challenging the human exploitation of bees and their honey.
  • C. Robert L. Richards
    Robert L. Richards was an American screenwriter known for his work in mid-20th-century film and radio, including notable crime and noir dramas.
  • D. Raymond J. Barry
    Raymond J. Barry is an American character actor known for his intense, often authoritative roles in film, television, and theater, including prominent performances in movies like "Dead Man Walking" and series such as "Justified."
  • E. Reginald W. Keller
    Reginald W. Keller was a Canadian Army officer who commanded forces during the Second World War, notably in the Battle of Normandy.
  • 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: Bernard B. Ray
Triple: [The Silver Trail, director, Bernard B. Ray]
Generated description
Bernard B. Ray was an American film director and producer active in the 1930s and 1940s, best known for his low-budget Westerns and serials in the early Hollywood B-movie era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard B. Ray
Target entity description: Bernard B. Ray was an American film director and producer active in the 1930s and 1940s, best known for his low-budget Westerns and serials in the early Hollywood B-movie era.
  • A. Raymond N. Hirsch
    Raymond N. Hirsch was the husband of American actress Eleanor Parker, known for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Sound of Music."
  • B. Barry B. Benson
    Barry B. Benson is the idealistic and witty bee protagonist of the animated film "Bee Movie," known for challenging the human exploitation of bees and their honey.
  • C. Robert L. Richards
    Robert L. Richards was an American screenwriter known for his work in mid-20th-century film and radio, including notable crime and noir dramas.
  • D. Raymond J. Barry
    Raymond J. Barry is an American character actor known for his intense, often authoritative roles in film, television, and theater, including prominent performances in movies like "Dead Man Walking" and series such as "Justified."
  • E. Reginald W. Keller
    Reginald W. Keller was a Canadian Army officer who commanded forces during the Second World War, notably in the Battle of Normandy.
  • 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_69e11e3523488190badd54b5d580c00d completed April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f128ba24ac819082fc4aa274553481 completed April 28, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0bb9a644ac81908759165afee762d1 completed May 19, 2026, 1:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0bbb59ff98819081ccb651f6a1d154 completed May 19, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0bbc15b59c8190b918d551b1fb3230 completed May 19, 2026, 1:25 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:29 p.m.