Triple
T5286657
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Two Years Before the Mast (film) |
E119634
|
entity |
| Predicate | cinematographer |
P1953
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William C. Mellor |
E667876
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: William C. Mellor | Statement: [Two Years Before the Mast (film), cinematographer, William C. Mellor]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William C. Mellor Context triple: [Two Years Before the Mast (film), cinematographer, William C. Mellor]
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A.
William C. Mellor
chosen
William C. Mellor was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films and for winning multiple Academy Awards for Best Cinematography.
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B.
Henry W. Gerrard
Henry W. Gerrard was an American cinematographer active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on classic genre films.
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C.
George M. Murray
George M. Murray was a religious leader and co-author of the 1963 "A Call for Unity" statement by white clergymen that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
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D.
Henry C. Mustin
Henry C. Mustin was a pioneering U.S. Navy aviator and officer who played a key role in the early development of naval aviation.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd446de5648190b313a90bd96730d2 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd84d9a0788190a4a85a9cab07903f |
completed | March 20, 2026, 5:33 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c870539eb08190936adcfbab395654 |
completed | March 29, 2026, 12:20 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:52 p.m.