Triple

T19796205
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Seventh Heaven (1927 film) E475546 entity
Predicate cinematographyBy P1953 FINISHED
Object William Cooper Smith
William Cooper Smith was a cinematographer active during the silent film era, known for his work on early Hollywood productions.
E1410336 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 Cooper Smith | Statement: [Seventh Heaven (1927 film), cinematographyBy, William Cooper Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cooper Smith
Context triple: [Seventh Heaven (1927 film), cinematographyBy, William Cooper Smith]
  • A. William Owen Smith
    William Owen Smith was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii who played a key role in the islands’ political transformation and legal affairs.
  • B. William Wallace Smith Bliss
    William Wallace Smith Bliss was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and accomplished mathematician who served as a staff officer in the Mexican–American War and as son-in-law and aide to President Zachary Taylor.
  • C. William Gordon Cooke
    William Gordon Cooke was a 19th-century soldier and political figure notable for his service in the Texas Revolution and early Republic of Texas government.
  • D. Arthur Dehon Little
    Arthur Dehon Little was an American chemist and pioneering management consultant who co-founded one of the world’s first consulting firms, Arthur D. Little, Inc.
  • E. William Parish Chilton
    William Parish Chilton was a 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and politician from Alabama who served as a Confederate congressman and briefly as Speaker of the Provisional Confederate Congress.
  • 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 Cooper Smith
Triple: [Seventh Heaven (1927 film), cinematographyBy, William Cooper Smith]
Generated description
William Cooper Smith was a cinematographer active during the silent film era, known for his work on early Hollywood productions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cooper Smith
Target entity description: William Cooper Smith was a cinematographer active during the silent film era, known for his work on early Hollywood productions.
  • A. William Owen Smith
    William Owen Smith was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii who played a key role in the islands’ political transformation and legal affairs.
  • B. William Wallace Smith Bliss
    William Wallace Smith Bliss was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and accomplished mathematician who served as a staff officer in the Mexican–American War and as son-in-law and aide to President Zachary Taylor.
  • C. William Gordon Cooke
    William Gordon Cooke was a 19th-century soldier and political figure notable for his service in the Texas Revolution and early Republic of Texas government.
  • D. Arthur Dehon Little
    Arthur Dehon Little was an American chemist and pioneering management consultant who co-founded one of the world’s first consulting firms, Arthur D. Little, Inc.
  • E. William Parish Chilton
    William Parish Chilton was a 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and politician from Alabama who served as a Confederate congressman and briefly as Speaker of the Provisional Confederate Congress.
  • 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_69d8e51b014081908b263e167370529a completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e653c723548190ac9bfaecaf8afb13 completed April 20, 2026, 4:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a081f216a9c819088172b713fb1739f completed May 16, 2026, 7:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a081fcc025081909292799ee8abd779 completed May 16, 2026, 7:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08208c203c819083abea34d10d5e4e completed May 16, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:49 p.m.