Triple

T21766543
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Whistler (1944 film) E537307 entity
Predicate cinematographyBy P1953 FINISHED
Object James S. Brown Jr.
James S. Brown Jr. was an American cinematographer active in mid-20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on noir and mystery films.
 E1501577 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: James S. Brown Jr. | Statement: [The Whistler (1944 film), cinematographyBy, James S. Brown Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James S. Brown Jr.
Context triple: [The Whistler (1944 film), cinematographyBy, James S. Brown Jr.]
  • A. James R. Brown
    James R. Brown is a music producer and engineer known for his work on the Foo Fighters’ documentary album project "Sonic Highways."
  • B. James W. Brown II
    James W. Brown II was an American businessman and politician from Pennsylvania who served as a U.S. Representative in the late 19th century.
  • C. James H. Brown
    James H. Brown is a prominent American ecologist known for his influential work in macroecology, biogeography, and metabolic scaling theory.
  • D. Marvin L. Brown Jr.
    Marvin L. Brown Jr. is an author best known for co-writing a firsthand historical account of the final American atomic mission of World War II.
  • E. James Nathaniel Brown
    James Nathaniel Brown was a legendary American football fullback, actor, and civil rights advocate widely regarded as one of the greatest players in NFL history.
  • 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: James S. Brown Jr.
Triple: [The Whistler (1944 film), cinematographyBy, James S. Brown Jr.]
Generated description
James S. Brown Jr. was an American cinematographer active in mid-20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on noir and mystery films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James S. Brown Jr.
Target entity description: James S. Brown Jr. was an American cinematographer active in mid-20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on noir and mystery films.
  • A. James R. Brown
    James R. Brown is a music producer and engineer known for his work on the Foo Fighters’ documentary album project "Sonic Highways."
  • B. James W. Brown II
    James W. Brown II was an American businessman and politician from Pennsylvania who served as a U.S. Representative in the late 19th century.
  • C. James H. Brown
    James H. Brown is a prominent American ecologist known for his influential work in macroecology, biogeography, and metabolic scaling theory.
  • D. Marvin L. Brown Jr.
    Marvin L. Brown Jr. is an author best known for co-writing a firsthand historical account of the final American atomic mission of World War II.
  • E. James Nathaniel Brown
    James Nathaniel Brown was a legendary American football fullback, actor, and civil rights advocate widely regarded as one of the greatest players in NFL history.
  • 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_69e0c46f5d1c8190bf830409e98464e5 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f031aa9c888190887c5c1d1e3bab9f completed April 28, 2026, 4:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a3679c8f88190aaf068aa57ad4870 completed May 17, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a3a85bd6081909ef95bf91b809413 completed May 17, 2026, 10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a3b6799008190839f2d2f50e85457 completed May 17, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:51 p.m.