Triple

T2340594
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Dam Busters (1955 film) E45016 entity
Predicate cinematographyBy P1953 FINISHED
Object Erwin Hillier
Erwin Hillier was a German-born British cinematographer renowned for his work on classic mid-20th-century films, particularly in the British film industry.
E319579 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: Erwin Hillier | Statement: [The Dam Busters (1955 film), cinematographyBy, Erwin Hillier]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Erwin Hillier
Context triple: [The Dam Busters (1955 film), cinematographyBy, Erwin Hillier]
  • A. Herbert Jenkins
    Herbert Jenkins was a British publishing company best known for issuing popular fiction, including many works by P. G. Wodehouse.
  • B. Gerald Wilkinson
    Gerald Wilkinson was a British naturalist, illustrator, and author known for his influential books on trees, woodlands, and the English countryside.
  • C. Stanley Goble
    Stanley Goble was an Australian naval aviator and senior officer who became a pioneering figure in military aviation and later served as Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Australian Air Force.
  • D. George Pilger
    George Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
  • E. Walter Crickmer
    Walter Crickmer was an English football club secretary and manager for Manchester United who was among those who died in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
  • 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: Erwin Hillier
Triple: [The Dam Busters (1955 film), cinematographyBy, Erwin Hillier]
Generated description
Erwin Hillier was a German-born British cinematographer renowned for his work on classic mid-20th-century films, particularly in the British film industry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Erwin Hillier
Target entity description: Erwin Hillier was a German-born British cinematographer renowned for his work on classic mid-20th-century films, particularly in the British film industry.
  • A. Herbert Jenkins
    Herbert Jenkins was a British publishing company best known for issuing popular fiction, including many works by P. G. Wodehouse.
  • B. Gerald Wilkinson
    Gerald Wilkinson was a British naturalist, illustrator, and author known for his influential books on trees, woodlands, and the English countryside.
  • C. Stanley Goble
    Stanley Goble was an Australian naval aviator and senior officer who became a pioneering figure in military aviation and later served as Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Australian Air Force.
  • D. George Pilger
    George Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
  • E. Walter Crickmer
    Walter Crickmer was an English football club secretary and manager for Manchester United who was among those who died in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
  • 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_69a88917935081909b755dbf38e81024 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc6abf1688190b7c404de0979149a completed March 7, 2026, 6:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b12ded5f9c8190a0de21b631d970b0 completed March 11, 2026, 8:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1316ee0708190bd27bb78f7f298d3 completed March 11, 2026, 9:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1d6729f848190a275638f074c1729 completed March 11, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:52 p.m.