Triple

T3018047
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pinky E82384 entity
Predicate cinematographyBy P1953 FINISHED
Object Joseph MacDonald
Joseph MacDonald was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films, particularly in the 1940s and 1950s.
E319655 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: Joseph MacDonald | Statement: [Pinky, cinematographyBy, Joseph MacDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph MacDonald
Context triple: [Pinky, cinematographyBy, Joseph MacDonald]
  • A. Philip MacDonald
    Philip MacDonald was a British-born novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery fiction and his contributions to classic Hollywood films.
  • B. Charles MacDonald
    Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
  • C. John Applegate
    John Applegate was a 19th-century American pioneer and explorer associated with the development of overland emigrant routes in the western United States.
  • D. Robert Cochrane
    Robert Cochrane was a prominent 20th-century English occultist and influential figure in the development of modern traditional witchcraft.
  • E. Paul Bacon
    Paul Bacon was an influential American graphic designer and illustrator renowned for pioneering the "big book" cover style for major 20th-century novels and jazz albums.
  • 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: Joseph MacDonald
Triple: [Pinky, cinematographyBy, Joseph MacDonald]
Generated description
Joseph MacDonald was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films, particularly in the 1940s and 1950s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph MacDonald
Target entity description: Joseph MacDonald was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films, particularly in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • A. Philip MacDonald
    Philip MacDonald was a British-born novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery fiction and his contributions to classic Hollywood films.
  • B. Charles MacDonald
    Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
  • C. John Applegate
    John Applegate was a 19th-century American pioneer and explorer associated with the development of overland emigrant routes in the western United States.
  • D. Robert Cochrane
    Robert Cochrane was a prominent 20th-century English occultist and influential figure in the development of modern traditional witchcraft.
  • E. Paul Bacon
    Paul Bacon was an influential American graphic designer and illustrator renowned for pioneering the "big book" cover style for major 20th-century novels and jazz albums.
  • 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_69ad8b1eb53481908c39bbcd1ec104b2 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9a90ea64819080620e60bbd6aa24 completed March 8, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b12e71a9c08190848ecb3bcab18bb5 completed March 11, 2026, 8:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b132319fd481908426670f319f56c5 completed March 11, 2026, 9:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1d6729f848190a275638f074c1729 completed March 11, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3 p.m.