Triple

T474501
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kinetoscope E9030 entity
Predicate relatedDevice P13458 FINISHED
Object Vitascope
Vitascope was an early film projector developed in the 1890s that helped introduce projected motion pictures to large audiences in theaters.
 E60288 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: Vitascope | Statement: [Kinetoscope, relatedDevice, Vitascope]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vitascope
Context triple: [Kinetoscope, relatedDevice, Vitascope]
  • A. Kinetograph
    The Kinetograph was an early motion picture camera developed in the late 19th century by Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Laurie Dickson to record films for viewing in the Kinetoscope.
  • B. Kinetoscope
    The Kinetoscope was an early motion picture exhibition device that allowed a single viewer to watch short films through a peephole, pioneering the commercial development of cinema in the 1890s.
  • C. Vitaphone
    Vitaphone was an early sound-on-disc motion picture system developed by Warner Bros. that played a key role in the transition from silent films to “talkies” in the late 1920s.
  • D. Motion Picture Patents Company
    The Motion Picture Patents Company was an early 20th-century film industry trust that sought to control movie production, distribution, and exhibition in the United States through pooled patents and licensing.
  • E. Edison cylinder phonograph
    The Edison cylinder phonograph was an early sound recording and playback device that used rotating wax cylinders to capture and reproduce audio, pioneering the era of recorded sound.
  • 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: Vitascope
Triple: [Kinetoscope, relatedDevice, Vitascope]
Generated description
Vitascope was an early film projector developed in the 1890s that helped introduce projected motion pictures to large audiences in theaters.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vitascope
Target entity description: Vitascope was an early film projector developed in the 1890s that helped introduce projected motion pictures to large audiences in theaters.
  • A. Kinetograph
    The Kinetograph was an early motion picture camera developed in the late 19th century by Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Laurie Dickson to record films for viewing in the Kinetoscope.
  • B. Kinetoscope
    The Kinetoscope was an early motion picture exhibition device that allowed a single viewer to watch short films through a peephole, pioneering the commercial development of cinema in the 1890s.
  • C. Vitaphone
    Vitaphone was an early sound-on-disc motion picture system developed by Warner Bros. that played a key role in the transition from silent films to “talkies” in the late 1920s.
  • D. Motion Picture Patents Company
    The Motion Picture Patents Company was an early 20th-century film industry trust that sought to control movie production, distribution, and exhibition in the United States through pooled patents and licensing.
  • E. Edison cylinder phonograph
    The Edison cylinder phonograph was an early sound recording and playback device that used rotating wax cylinders to capture and reproduce audio, pioneering the era of recorded sound.
  • 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_69a2e7ff81708190b0507a24a997232c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f039f3d88190a7c93ecbf1bf5f58 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4711cd9ac8190bc95a6560950525b completed March 1, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a47180628c8190b801210ec5edf071 completed March 1, 2026, 5:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4721291a08190bc0b6f3aaadf8b71 completed March 1, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.