Triple

T474515
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Motion Picture Patents Company E9031 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Edison Trust
Edison Trust was a powerful early 20th-century American film industry monopoly that controlled key motion picture patents and sought to dominate movie production, distribution, and exhibition.
E61059 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: Edison Trust | Statement: [Motion Picture Patents Company, alsoKnownAs, Edison Trust]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edison Trust
Context triple: [Motion Picture Patents Company, alsoKnownAs, Edison Trust]
  • A. Edison Manufacturing Company
    Edison Manufacturing Company was an early American film production and equipment company created by inventor Thomas Edison that played a key role in the birth of the motion picture industry.
  • B. Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
    Thomas A. Edison, Inc. was a company founded by inventor Thomas Edison that produced a range of early sound recording and playback devices and other electrical innovations.
  • C. Edison Machine Works
    Edison Machine Works was a major manufacturing arm of Thomas Edison's electric power enterprises in the late 19th century, producing electrical equipment such as dynamos and motors.
  • D. Edison Illuminating Company
    Edison Illuminating Company was one of the earliest electric utility companies in the United States, established by Thomas Edison to generate and distribute electric power for lighting and other uses.
  • E. Reading Company
    Reading Company was a major American railroad and coal company based in Pennsylvania, best known for operating the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and influencing regional transportation and industry in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • 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: Edison Trust
Triple: [Motion Picture Patents Company, alsoKnownAs, Edison Trust]
Generated description
Edison Trust was a powerful early 20th-century American film industry monopoly that controlled key motion picture patents and sought to dominate movie production, distribution, and exhibition.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edison Trust
Target entity description: Edison Trust was a powerful early 20th-century American film industry monopoly that controlled key motion picture patents and sought to dominate movie production, distribution, and exhibition.
  • A. Edison Manufacturing Company
    Edison Manufacturing Company was an early American film production and equipment company created by inventor Thomas Edison that played a key role in the birth of the motion picture industry.
  • B. Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
    Thomas A. Edison, Inc. was a company founded by inventor Thomas Edison that produced a range of early sound recording and playback devices and other electrical innovations.
  • C. Edison Machine Works
    Edison Machine Works was a major manufacturing arm of Thomas Edison's electric power enterprises in the late 19th century, producing electrical equipment such as dynamos and motors.
  • D. Edison Illuminating Company
    Edison Illuminating Company was one of the earliest electric utility companies in the United States, established by Thomas Edison to generate and distribute electric power for lighting and other uses.
  • E. Reading Company
    Reading Company was a major American railroad and coal company based in Pennsylvania, best known for operating the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and influencing regional transportation and industry in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • 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_69a4746deb4481908d88c50c86b58ee8 completed March 1, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4761ce01c8190a34d85d498d4de82 completed March 1, 2026, 5:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a476ba75388190a11f982f9b01861c completed March 1, 2026, 5:26 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.