Triple

T1679151
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spartacus (1960 film) E36298 entity
Predicate cinematographyBy P1953 FINISHED
Object Russell Metty
Russell Metty was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on classic Hollywood films, including his Oscar-winning photography for "Spartacus" (1960).
E198564 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: Russell Metty | Statement: [Spartacus (1960 film), cinematographyBy, Russell Metty]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Russell Metty
Context triple: [Spartacus (1960 film), cinematographyBy, Russell Metty]
  • A. Michael K. Powell
    Michael K. Powell is an American lawyer and politician best known for serving as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2001 to 2005.
  • B. Dick Van Patten
    Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
  • C. Valentine Fleming
    Valentine Fleming was a British Conservative politician and World War I officer whose death in action left a lasting impact on his family, including his son, author Ian Fleming.
  • D. Ken Hughes
    Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
  • E. William C. deMille
    William C. deMille was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director of the silent and early sound era, known for his sophisticated dramas and as the brother of famed director Cecil B. DeMille.
  • 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: Russell Metty
Triple: [Spartacus (1960 film), cinematographyBy, Russell Metty]
Generated description
Russell Metty was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on classic Hollywood films, including his Oscar-winning photography for "Spartacus" (1960).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Russell Metty
Target entity description: Russell Metty was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on classic Hollywood films, including his Oscar-winning photography for "Spartacus" (1960).
  • A. Michael K. Powell
    Michael K. Powell is an American lawyer and politician best known for serving as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2001 to 2005.
  • B. Dick Van Patten
    Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
  • C. Valentine Fleming
    Valentine Fleming was a British Conservative politician and World War I officer whose death in action left a lasting impact on his family, including his son, author Ian Fleming.
  • D. Ken Hughes
    Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
  • E. William C. deMille
    William C. deMille was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director of the silent and early sound era, known for his sophisticated dramas and as the brother of famed director Cecil B. DeMille.
  • 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_69a886139ed081909af0940aa9313512 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa6260afb881909a50e80c8211fa08 completed March 6, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ada976b6cc8190b1f50452a73e142a completed March 8, 2026, 4:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adaab1fb6881908e0711ae1b69e2e5 completed March 8, 2026, 4:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adae9fdd3081908b1d9d7335cab1bd completed March 8, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.