Triple

T9794646
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject It's a Good Life E237688 entity
Predicate basedOnAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object Jerome Bixby
Jerome Bixby was an American science fiction writer and screenwriter best known for influential short stories and for contributions to classic series like Star Trek and The Twilight Zone.
E822275 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: Jerome Bixby | Statement: [It's a Good Life, basedOnAuthor, Jerome Bixby]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jerome Bixby
Context triple: [It's a Good Life, basedOnAuthor, Jerome Bixby]
  • A. Fred M. Wilcox
    Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
  • B. Ken Olsen
    Ken Olsen was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of Digital Equipment Corporation, a pioneering company in the minicomputer industry.
  • C. K. T. McFarland
    K. T. McFarland is an American foreign policy analyst and former government official who served in senior national security roles, including in the Trump administration.
  • D. Michael Bostick
    Michael Bostick is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood comedies and family films, including the hit movie "Bruce Almighty."
  • E. John Beeman
    John Beeman was an early Texas settler associated with the pioneering families connected to John Neely Bryan, the founder of Dallas.
  • 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: Jerome Bixby
Triple: [It's a Good Life, basedOnAuthor, Jerome Bixby]
Generated description
Jerome Bixby was an American science fiction writer and screenwriter best known for influential short stories and for contributions to classic series like Star Trek and The Twilight Zone.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jerome Bixby
Target entity description: Jerome Bixby was an American science fiction writer and screenwriter best known for influential short stories and for contributions to classic series like Star Trek and The Twilight Zone.
  • A. Fred M. Wilcox
    Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
  • B. Ken Olsen
    Ken Olsen was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of Digital Equipment Corporation, a pioneering company in the minicomputer industry.
  • C. K. T. McFarland
    K. T. McFarland is an American foreign policy analyst and former government official who served in senior national security roles, including in the Trump administration.
  • D. Michael Bostick
    Michael Bostick is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood comedies and family films, including the hit movie "Bruce Almighty."
  • E. John Beeman
    John Beeman was an early Texas settler associated with the pioneering families connected to John Neely Bryan, the founder of Dallas.
  • 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_69ca84dc04488190b9c91193976c0960 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cda347b6bc8190a99b7dec1650cd46 completed April 1, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1c43bccfc81909b940b180fe26626 completed April 5, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1c5e6a2f881908666328ce72a95ed completed April 5, 2026, 2:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1c68311008190b2d5b8a2fadfba69 completed April 5, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:28 p.m.