Triple
T2720218
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Kennedy Laurie Dickson |
E60063
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Kinetoscope |
E9030
|
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: Kinetoscope | Statement: [William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, notableWork, Kinetoscope]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kinetoscope Context triple: [William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, notableWork, Kinetoscope]
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A.
Kinetoscope
chosen
The Kinetoscope was an early motion picture exhibition device that allowed a single viewer to watch short films through a peephole, pioneering the commercial development of cinema in the 1890s.
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B.
Vitascope
Vitascope was an early film projector developed in the 1890s that helped introduce projected motion pictures to large audiences in theaters.
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C.
Kinetograph
The Kinetograph was an early motion picture camera developed in the late 19th century by Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Laurie Dickson to record films for viewing in the Kinetoscope.
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D.
Edison cylinder phonograph
The Edison cylinder phonograph was an early sound recording and playback device that used rotating wax cylinders to capture and reproduce audio, pioneering the era of recorded sound.
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E.
Vitaphone
Vitaphone was an early sound-on-disc motion picture system developed by Warner Bros. that played a key role in the transition from silent films to “talkies” in the late 1920s.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ab4b746d248190958e052045c09255 |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abdab06d388190acf690787fe58ab5 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 7:58 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69afbbc05d148190b6a0faf10443519d |
completed | March 10, 2026, 6:35 a.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:55 p.m.