Triple

T9234514
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Where Are My Children? E221902 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Phillips Smalley
Phillips Smalley was an early American film director and actor best known for his silent-era collaborations with Lois Weber on socially conscious dramas.
 E787506 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: Phillips Smalley | Statement: [Where Are My Children?, director, Phillips Smalley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Phillips Smalley
Context triple: [Where Are My Children?, director, Phillips Smalley]
  • A. Thomas Bartee
    Thomas Bartee was a mathematician and computer scientist known for his contributions to algebraic structures in computing and for coauthoring influential texts with Garrett Birkhoff.
  • B. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • C. Samuel H. Smith
    Samuel H. Smith was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the first missionaries of the Church of Christ founded by his brother Joseph Smith.
  • D. Charles Jennings
    Charles Jennings was a Canadian journalist and radio broadcaster, best known for his work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and as the father of news anchor Peter Jennings.
  • E. Charles H. Smith
    Charles H. Smith was an engineer best known for his role in designing and developing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
  • 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: Phillips Smalley
Triple: [Where Are My Children?, director, Phillips Smalley]
Generated description
Phillips Smalley was an early American film director and actor best known for his silent-era collaborations with Lois Weber on socially conscious dramas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Phillips Smalley
Target entity description: Phillips Smalley was an early American film director and actor best known for his silent-era collaborations with Lois Weber on socially conscious dramas.
  • A. Thomas Bartee
    Thomas Bartee was a mathematician and computer scientist known for his contributions to algebraic structures in computing and for coauthoring influential texts with Garrett Birkhoff.
  • B. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • C. Samuel H. Smith
    Samuel H. Smith was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the first missionaries of the Church of Christ founded by his brother Joseph Smith.
  • D. Charles Jennings
    Charles Jennings was a Canadian journalist and radio broadcaster, best known for his work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and as the father of news anchor Peter Jennings.
  • E. Charles H. Smith
    Charles H. Smith was an engineer best known for his role in designing and developing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
  • 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_69ca83ed628c8190bc02d641e57f097f completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ccee1cca0c8190bf587f54236c9e45 completed April 1, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d077c31f588190bae2af98e3b71c38 completed April 4, 2026, 2:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d07bc3c5cc8190a35561279ff0f1a2 completed April 4, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d07c725a0c8190bf905461a38ef65e completed April 4, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:29 p.m.