Triple

T25701322
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gordon Hugh Willis Jr. E644470 entity
Predicate nickname P55 FINISHED
Object The Prince of Darkness
The Prince of Darkness is the famed nickname of cinematographer Gordon Willis, renowned for his pioneering use of shadow and low-light techniques in films like "The Godfather" series.
E1692243 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: The Prince of Darkness | Statement: [Gordon Hugh Willis Jr., nickname, The Prince of Darkness]
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: The Prince of Darkness
Triple: [Gordon Hugh Willis Jr., nickname, The Prince of Darkness]
Generated description
The Prince of Darkness is the famed nickname of cinematographer Gordon Willis, renowned for his pioneering use of shadow and low-light techniques in films like "The Godfather" series.

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_69e77e82c9bc8190893090b2f6c64f1d completed April 21, 2026, 1:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f5fc0dc6648190b0fd2ba864d1d31f completed May 2, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a10c16c7fc8819089c98ecdf71121be completed May 22, 2026, 8:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a10c5507d1c81908f076048b2498cc7 completed May 22, 2026, 9:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a10c5a4de748190850c31fd52e9a3c3 completed May 22, 2026, 9:07 p.m.
Created at: April 21, 2026, 8:46 p.m.