Triple

T8810615
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film) E209649 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Frank Towns
Frank Towns is the hard-bitten, veteran pilot whose leadership and struggle with guilt drive much of the tension and drama in the survival film "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965).
 E759911 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: Frank Towns | Statement: [The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film), character, Frank Towns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Frank Towns
Context triple: [The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film), character, Frank Towns]
  • A. Sydney Cockerell
    Sydney Cockerell was a British museum director, book collector, and patron of the arts, best known for his long tenure as director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
  • B. John Holland
    John Holland was an American actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television productions.
  • C. Bruce Smeaton
    Bruce Smeaton is an Australian composer best known for his film scores, particularly for notable Australian and international movies from the 1970s onward.
  • D. Ralph Darlington
    Ralph Darlington is a British academic and author known for his work on labor history, trade unionism, and industrial relations.
  • E. Charles Vincent Massey
    Charles Vincent Massey was a Canadian lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who became the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada, serving from 1952 to 1959.
  • 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: Frank Towns
Triple: [The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film), character, Frank Towns]
Generated description
Frank Towns is the hard-bitten, veteran pilot whose leadership and struggle with guilt drive much of the tension and drama in the survival film "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Frank Towns
Target entity description: Frank Towns is the hard-bitten, veteran pilot whose leadership and struggle with guilt drive much of the tension and drama in the survival film "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965).
  • A. Sydney Cockerell
    Sydney Cockerell was a British museum director, book collector, and patron of the arts, best known for his long tenure as director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
  • B. John Holland
    John Holland was an American actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television productions.
  • C. Bruce Smeaton
    Bruce Smeaton is an Australian composer best known for his film scores, particularly for notable Australian and international movies from the 1970s onward.
  • D. Ralph Darlington
    Ralph Darlington is a British academic and author known for his work on labor history, trade unionism, and industrial relations.
  • E. Charles Vincent Massey
    Charles Vincent Massey was a Canadian lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who became the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada, serving from 1952 to 1959.
  • 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_69ca8363f3308190a47e3f1ebd51f613 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5fed18f8819087b0282bf8c4208c completed March 31, 2026, 11:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf6faa5dbc819083ecfbbb261cbc44 completed April 3, 2026, 7:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf713a184c8190b1fa788fd3ba8304 completed April 3, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf71d3517c819088c930ed468c4e8e completed April 3, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:45 p.m.