Triple

T4369039
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Toll of the Sea E98848 entity
Predicate cinematographyBy P1953 FINISHED
Object J. Arthur Ball
J. Arthur Ball was an early American cinematographer known for his work on pioneering color films in the silent era.
E443639 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: J. Arthur Ball | Statement: [The Toll of the Sea, cinematographyBy, J. Arthur Ball]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. Arthur Ball
Context triple: [The Toll of the Sea, cinematographyBy, J. Arthur Ball]
  • A. Eugene Tennant
    Eugene Tennant is the father of British actress Victoria Tennant.
  • B. William Cottrell
    William Cottrell was an American screenwriter and director best known for his work on classic Disney animated films in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Francis Johnston
    Francis Johnston was a prominent early 19th-century Irish architect known for his influential public and ecclesiastical buildings in Dublin and across Ireland.
  • D. Frederick Etchells
    Frederick Etchells was a British artist, architect, and translator best known for his involvement in the early 20th-century avant-garde, particularly the Vorticist movement.
  • E. Alfred Terry
    Alfred Terry was a U.S. Army general best known for his leadership on the Northern Plains during the Indian Wars, including a key role in the Great Sioux War of 1876.
  • 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: J. Arthur Ball
Triple: [The Toll of the Sea, cinematographyBy, J. Arthur Ball]
Generated description
J. Arthur Ball was an early American cinematographer known for his work on pioneering color films in the silent era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. Arthur Ball
Target entity description: J. Arthur Ball was an early American cinematographer known for his work on pioneering color films in the silent era.
  • A. Eugene Tennant
    Eugene Tennant is the father of British actress Victoria Tennant.
  • B. William Cottrell
    William Cottrell was an American screenwriter and director best known for his work on classic Disney animated films in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Francis Johnston
    Francis Johnston was a prominent early 19th-century Irish architect known for his influential public and ecclesiastical buildings in Dublin and across Ireland.
  • D. Frederick Etchells
    Frederick Etchells was a British artist, architect, and translator best known for his involvement in the early 20th-century avant-garde, particularly the Vorticist movement.
  • E. Alfred Terry
    Alfred Terry was a U.S. Army general best known for his leadership on the Northern Plains during the Indian Wars, including a key role in the Great Sioux War of 1876.
  • 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_69b3454db3708190aeafd814413c4c3d completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b352052b388190b02cca9a3b480be4 completed March 12, 2026, 11:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b637435c208190b8a899878b350798 completed March 15, 2026, 4:36 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b63b1a5a248190ad4e3579d2d89e80 completed March 15, 2026, 4:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b63baa6e9081909d9f87d528b4f2bb completed March 15, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:17 p.m.