Triple

T1823692
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lights of New York E40601 entity
Predicate cinematographyBy P1953 FINISHED
Object Edgar Lyons
Edgar Lyons was a cinematographer active during the early sound era of American cinema, known for his work on the pioneering all-talking feature film "Lights of New York."
E324183 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: Edgar Lyons | Statement: [Lights of New York, cinematographyBy, Edgar Lyons]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edgar Lyons
Context triple: [Lights of New York, cinematographyBy, Edgar Lyons]
  • A. Henry Davison
    Henry Davison was an American banker and humanitarian who played a key role in organizing international Red Cross relief efforts during and after World War I.
  • B. Harold Briggs
    Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
  • C. Leonard Franklin Slye
    Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
  • D. George Ward
    George Ward was a British Conservative politician who served in senior government roles during the mid-20th century, including as Minister of Supply.
  • E. Walter Pitman
    Walter Pitman was an American geophysicist and oceanographer known for his pioneering work on seafloor spreading and plate tectonics.
  • 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: Edgar Lyons
Triple: [Lights of New York, cinematographyBy, Edgar Lyons]
Generated description
Edgar Lyons was a cinematographer active during the early sound era of American cinema, known for his work on the pioneering all-talking feature film "Lights of New York."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edgar Lyons
Target entity description: Edgar Lyons was a cinematographer active during the early sound era of American cinema, known for his work on the pioneering all-talking feature film "Lights of New York."
  • A. Henry Davison
    Henry Davison was an American banker and humanitarian who played a key role in organizing international Red Cross relief efforts during and after World War I.
  • B. Harold Briggs
    Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
  • C. Leonard Franklin Slye
    Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
  • D. George Ward
    George Ward was a British Conservative politician who served in senior government roles during the mid-20th century, including as Minister of Supply.
  • E. Walter Pitman
    Walter Pitman was an American geophysicist and oceanographer known for his pioneering work on seafloor spreading and plate tectonics.
  • 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_69a8864644bc8190b2358ab897194ac1 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa662d13e88190a22b0faf0d848c7d completed March 6, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1f84148a08190a514fb15d550a550 completed March 11, 2026, 11:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1f8d3ff288190bd79bfc99d06c3ca completed March 11, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1f94b3e3c8190b8ce0531a7c54902 completed March 11, 2026, 11:22 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.