Triple

T3884364
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Blackmail (1929 film) E92902 entity
Predicate cinematographyBy P1953 FINISHED
Object Jack E. Cox
Jack E. Cox was a British cinematographer active during the silent and early sound eras, known for his work on several of Alfred Hitchcock’s early films.
E893327 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: Jack E. Cox | Statement: [Blackmail (1929 film), cinematographyBy, Jack E. Cox]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jack E. Cox
Context triple: [Blackmail (1929 film), cinematographyBy, Jack E. Cox]
  • A. Edward F. Cox
    Edward F. Cox is an American lawyer and political figure best known as the son-in-law of President Richard Nixon and a longtime leader within the New York Republican Party.
  • B. Robert F. Colesberry
    Robert F. Colesberry was an American film and television producer and director best known for helping shape the visual style and production of acclaimed series like *The Wire* and *Homicide: Life on the Street*.
  • C. Arthur K. Bolton
    Arthur K. Bolton was the Attorney General of Georgia who defended the state's abortion law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton.
  • D. John T. Towers
    John T. Towers was a 19th-century American printer and politician who served as mayor of Washington, D.C.
  • E. Joseph P. Kerwin
    Joseph P. Kerwin is an American physician and former NASA astronaut who became the first medical doctor in space as a crew member aboard the Skylab space station.
  • 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: Jack E. Cox
Triple: [Blackmail (1929 film), cinematographyBy, Jack E. Cox]
Generated description
Jack E. Cox was a British cinematographer active during the silent and early sound eras, known for his work on several of Alfred Hitchcock’s early films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jack E. Cox
Target entity description: Jack E. Cox was a British cinematographer active during the silent and early sound eras, known for his work on several of Alfred Hitchcock’s early films.
  • A. Edward F. Cox
    Edward F. Cox is an American lawyer and political figure best known as the son-in-law of President Richard Nixon and a longtime leader within the New York Republican Party.
  • B. Robert F. Colesberry
    Robert F. Colesberry was an American film and television producer and director best known for helping shape the visual style and production of acclaimed series like *The Wire* and *Homicide: Life on the Street*.
  • C. Arthur K. Bolton
    Arthur K. Bolton was the Attorney General of Georgia who defended the state's abortion law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton.
  • D. John T. Towers
    John T. Towers was a 19th-century American printer and politician who served as mayor of Washington, D.C.
  • E. Joseph P. Kerwin
    Joseph P. Kerwin is an American physician and former NASA astronaut who became the first medical doctor in space as a crew member aboard the Skylab space station.
  • 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_69aed9697de0819087c2559295ff3d12 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeec9029908190a7b36a3827734db1 completed March 9, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e215ac56248190a75ad5ceb8152d5a completed April 17, 2026, 11:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e21d860d288190855ffbe60df50df9 completed April 17, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e21f09be508190a7c497a7680cb59e completed April 17, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:20 p.m.