Triple

T2754145
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vitagraph Company of America E61060 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William T. Rock
William T. Rock was an early American film industry pioneer and co-founder of the influential silent-era studio Vitagraph Company of America.
 E676880 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 T. Rock | Statement: [Vitagraph Company of America, foundedBy, William T. Rock]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William T. Rock
Context triple: [Vitagraph Company of America, foundedBy, William T. Rock]
  • A. Francis B. Burch
    Francis B. Burch was an American lawyer and politician who served as the Attorney General of Maryland in the mid-20th century.
  • B. George T. Dunlap
    George T. Dunlap was an American publisher best known as a co-founder of the prominent publishing house Grosset & Dunlap.
  • C. William E. Hunt
    William E. Hunt was an American jurist who served as a justice on the Montana Supreme Court.
  • D. James T. Grady
    James T. Grady was a prominent science journalist and communicator known for his influential work in making chemistry and scientific topics accessible to the general public.
  • E. William R. Poage
    William R. Poage was a long-serving Democratic U.S. Representative from Texas known for his influential role in agricultural policy and leadership on the House Agriculture Committee.
  • 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 T. Rock
Triple: [Vitagraph Company of America, foundedBy, William T. Rock]
Generated description
William T. Rock was an early American film industry pioneer and co-founder of the influential silent-era studio Vitagraph Company of America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William T. Rock
Target entity description: William T. Rock was an early American film industry pioneer and co-founder of the influential silent-era studio Vitagraph Company of America.
  • A. Francis B. Burch
    Francis B. Burch was an American lawyer and politician who served as the Attorney General of Maryland in the mid-20th century.
  • B. George T. Dunlap
    George T. Dunlap was an American publisher best known as a co-founder of the prominent publishing house Grosset & Dunlap.
  • C. William E. Hunt
    William E. Hunt was an American jurist who served as a justice on the Montana Supreme Court.
  • D. James T. Grady
    James T. Grady was a prominent science journalist and communicator known for his influential work in making chemistry and scientific topics accessible to the general public.
  • E. William R. Poage
    William R. Poage was a long-serving Democratic U.S. Representative from Texas known for his influential role in agricultural policy and leadership on the House Agriculture Committee.
  • 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_69ab4b7a85bc819094a349b84beb1f2c completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdb7073d081909da84b21015972f2 completed March 7, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8681d57c08190b72d1b010db3a065 completed March 28, 2026, 11:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8690ef840819082ecaa16b5cf3f0c completed March 28, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c86b70a51c819091590ff094e6e784 completed March 28, 2026, 11:59 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:56 p.m.