Triple

T9117354
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Signs E218752 entity
Predicate protagonist P268 FINISHED
Object Merrill Hess
Merrill Hess is a former minor-league baseball player and the younger brother of ex-priest Graham Hess in M. Night Shyamalan’s science-fiction thriller film "Signs."
E784346 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: Merrill Hess | Statement: [Signs, protagonist, Merrill Hess]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merrill Hess
Context triple: [Signs, protagonist, Merrill Hess]
  • A. Harold C. Mayer
    Harold C. Mayer was an American financier best known as one of the co-founders of the investment bank Bear Stearns.
  • B. Clarence Fahnestock
    Clarence Fahnestock was a New York physician and outdoorsman whose legacy is commemorated by the state park that bears his name.
  • C. Merrill De Maris
    Merrill De Maris was an American screenwriter and story artist for Walt Disney Studios, best known for co-writing the screenplay for the landmark animated feature "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
  • D. Gerard Swope
    Gerard Swope was an American industrialist best known as the influential president of General Electric who helped shape modern corporate management and labor relations in the early 20th century.
  • E. Andrew Heiskell
    Andrew Heiskell was an American publishing executive and philanthropist best known as a longtime leader of Time Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s cultural and civic life.
  • 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: Merrill Hess
Triple: [Signs, protagonist, Merrill Hess]
Generated description
Merrill Hess is a former minor-league baseball player and the younger brother of ex-priest Graham Hess in M. Night Shyamalan’s science-fiction thriller film "Signs."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merrill Hess
Target entity description: Merrill Hess is a former minor-league baseball player and the younger brother of ex-priest Graham Hess in M. Night Shyamalan’s science-fiction thriller film "Signs."
  • A. Harold C. Mayer
    Harold C. Mayer was an American financier best known as one of the co-founders of the investment bank Bear Stearns.
  • B. Clarence Fahnestock
    Clarence Fahnestock was a New York physician and outdoorsman whose legacy is commemorated by the state park that bears his name.
  • C. Merrill De Maris
    Merrill De Maris was an American screenwriter and story artist for Walt Disney Studios, best known for co-writing the screenplay for the landmark animated feature "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
  • D. Gerard Swope
    Gerard Swope was an American industrialist best known as the influential president of General Electric who helped shape modern corporate management and labor relations in the early 20th century.
  • E. Andrew Heiskell
    Andrew Heiskell was an American publishing executive and philanthropist best known as a longtime leader of Time Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s cultural and civic life.
  • 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_69ca83dc94ac8190b9ef42684d36ff39 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cca8a5e2ac8190b602ef0c77deb2fa completed April 1, 2026, 5:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d05bf002c081909bb82bb765bbf4b1 completed April 4, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d05dee7f8881908ae7276b80bb6f99 completed April 4, 2026, 12:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d05e3e7e2c8190b4903b465e49b8ef completed April 4, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:17 p.m.