Triple

T2759213
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Essanay Studios E61178 entity
Predicate employed P7 FINISHED
Object Francis X. Bushman
Francis X. Bushman was a prominent American silent film actor and matinee idol, best known for his leading roles in early cinema, including the 1925 epic "Ben-Hur."
E571820 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: Francis X. Bushman | Statement: [Essanay Studios, employed, Francis X. Bushman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis X. Bushman
Context triple: [Essanay Studios, employed, Francis X. Bushman]
  • A. William S. Benson
    William S. Benson was a U.S. Navy admiral who served as the first Chief of Naval Operations during World War I.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • D. Edmund J. James
    Edmund J. James was an American economist and educator best known as a pioneering university president and influential leader in the development of higher education and economic thought in the United States.
  • E. Franklin H. Martin
    Franklin H. Martin was an American surgeon and medical leader best known for founding and guiding the development of the American College of Surgeons.
  • 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: Francis X. Bushman
Triple: [Essanay Studios, employed, Francis X. Bushman]
Generated description
Francis X. Bushman was a prominent American silent film actor and matinee idol, best known for his leading roles in early cinema, including the 1925 epic "Ben-Hur."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis X. Bushman
Target entity description: Francis X. Bushman was a prominent American silent film actor and matinee idol, best known for his leading roles in early cinema, including the 1925 epic "Ben-Hur."
  • A. William S. Benson
    William S. Benson was a U.S. Navy admiral who served as the first Chief of Naval Operations during World War I.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • D. Edmund J. James
    Edmund J. James was an American economist and educator best known as a pioneering university president and influential leader in the development of higher education and economic thought in the United States.
  • E. Franklin H. Martin
    Franklin H. Martin was an American surgeon and medical leader best known for founding and guiding the development of the American College of Surgeons.
  • 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_69abdb8d34f88190a760111fe303cf24 completed March 7, 2026, 8:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c1351018b48190910c3dad6c0f9850 completed March 23, 2026, 12:41 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1381233b081908af8982dce6a1db1 completed March 23, 2026, 12:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c1387a38788190b8cf2b04e5eeb5e3 completed March 23, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:57 p.m.