Triple

T1288046
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Great Dictator E27479 entity
Predicate cinematography P1953 FINISHED
Object Karl Struss
Karl Struss was an influential American cinematographer and photographer known for his innovative visual style in early Hollywood cinema, including work on landmark films such as "The Great Dictator."
E289245 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: Karl Struss | Statement: [The Great Dictator, cinematography, Karl Struss]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl Struss
Context triple: [The Great Dictator, cinematography, Karl Struss]
  • A. Walter Naegle
    Walter Naegle is an American activist and archivist best known as the longtime partner and estate executor of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
  • B. Carl Petersen
    Carl Petersen was a prominent Danish architect associated with the Nordic Classicism movement, known for blending classical forms with modern sensibilities in early 20th-century Scandinavian architecture.
  • C. George Boemler
    George Boemler was a film editor known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the musical comedy "High Society."
  • D. Louis Lingg
    Louis Lingg was a German-born anarchist and labor activist best known as one of the defendants in the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
  • E. Robert Lusser
    Robert Lusser was a German aeronautical engineer best known for his key role in designing several important World War II aircraft, including contributions to the Messerschmitt Bf 109.
  • 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: Karl Struss
Triple: [The Great Dictator, cinematography, Karl Struss]
Generated description
Karl Struss was an influential American cinematographer and photographer known for his innovative visual style in early Hollywood cinema, including work on landmark films such as "The Great Dictator."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl Struss
Target entity description: Karl Struss was an influential American cinematographer and photographer known for his innovative visual style in early Hollywood cinema, including work on landmark films such as "The Great Dictator."
  • A. Walter Naegle
    Walter Naegle is an American activist and archivist best known as the longtime partner and estate executor of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
  • B. Carl Petersen
    Carl Petersen was a prominent Danish architect associated with the Nordic Classicism movement, known for blending classical forms with modern sensibilities in early 20th-century Scandinavian architecture.
  • C. George Boemler
    George Boemler was a film editor known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the musical comedy "High Society."
  • D. Louis Lingg
    Louis Lingg was a German-born anarchist and labor activist best known as one of the defendants in the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
  • E. Robert Lusser
    Robert Lusser was a German aeronautical engineer best known for his key role in designing several important World War II aircraft, including contributions to the Messerschmitt Bf 109.
  • 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_69a496d4ec448190ad653b2590c46711 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c0d38d7c81908941edda9cac5d6a completed March 1, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afaf0adcd88190a2627ae97157884e completed March 10, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afaf93d89c8190b960a113c488b27f completed March 10, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afb02231588190a2c6dbaf22c15b14 completed March 10, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.