Triple

T1115653
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edison Manufacturing Company E11093 entity
Predicate employed P7 FINISHED
Object William Heise
William Heise was an early American cinematographer and camera operator who worked on some of the first motion pictures produced in the late 19th century.
E326112 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: William Heise | Statement: [Edison Manufacturing Company, employed, William Heise]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Heise
Context triple: [Edison Manufacturing Company, employed, William Heise]
  • A. Arthur J. Altmeyer
    Arthur J. Altmeyer was a key architect of the U.S. Social Security system and a prominent public administrator in the development of American social welfare policy.
  • B. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • C. Francis W. Sears
    Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
  • D. Alfred P. Boller
    Alfred P. Boller was an American civil engineer known for designing major infrastructure projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. William E. Nickerson
    William E. Nickerson was a prominent benefactor and businessman associated with Boston University, for whom the university’s Nickerson Field stadium is named.
  • 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: William Heise
Triple: [Edison Manufacturing Company, employed, William Heise]
Generated description
William Heise was an early American cinematographer and camera operator who worked on some of the first motion pictures produced in the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Heise
Target entity description: William Heise was an early American cinematographer and camera operator who worked on some of the first motion pictures produced in the late 19th century.
  • A. Arthur J. Altmeyer
    Arthur J. Altmeyer was a key architect of the U.S. Social Security system and a prominent public administrator in the development of American social welfare policy.
  • B. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • C. Francis W. Sears
    Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
  • D. Alfred P. Boller
    Alfred P. Boller was an American civil engineer known for designing major infrastructure projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. William E. Nickerson
    William E. Nickerson was a prominent benefactor and businessman associated with Boston University, for whom the university’s Nickerson Field stadium is named.
  • 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_69a493252a648190ac48f8742474a5e8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bba2b550819081f8a100638d2fba completed March 1, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b20309280c8190ad9a73397e42267c completed March 12, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b203c541fc8190bcba3d74f7b7bd4b completed March 12, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b204516ac8819094f29f6c68d61465 completed March 12, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.