Triple

T5294140
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Society of Cinematographers E119812 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William C. McGann
William C. McGann was an early 20th-century American cinematographer and film director who helped shape the visual style of Hollywood cinema.
 E536640 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: William C. McGann | Statement: [American Society of Cinematographers, foundedBy, William C. McGann]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William C. McGann
Context triple: [American Society of Cinematographers, foundedBy, William C. McGann]
  • A. Patrick H. McCarren
    Patrick H. McCarren was a prominent early 20th-century Brooklyn politician and New York State senator known for his influence in local Democratic Party politics.
  • B. Joseph B. Keenan
    Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
  • C. Thomas W. Connell
    Thomas W. Connell was a U.S. military officer best known for commanding American forces involved in the Balangiga massacre during the Philippine–American War.
  • D. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • E. Charles E. Kearney
    Charles E. Kearney was a 19th-century American railroad executive and civic leader after whom the city of Kearney, Missouri, is named.
  • 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: William C. McGann
Triple: [American Society of Cinematographers, foundedBy, William C. McGann]
Generated description
William C. McGann was an early 20th-century American cinematographer and film director who helped shape the visual style of Hollywood cinema.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William C. McGann
Target entity description: William C. McGann was an early 20th-century American cinematographer and film director who helped shape the visual style of Hollywood cinema.
  • A. Patrick H. McCarren
    Patrick H. McCarren was a prominent early 20th-century Brooklyn politician and New York State senator known for his influence in local Democratic Party politics.
  • B. Joseph B. Keenan
    Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
  • C. Thomas W. Connell
    Thomas W. Connell was a U.S. military officer best known for commanding American forces involved in the Balangiga massacre during the Philippine–American War.
  • D. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • E. Charles E. Kearney
    Charles E. Kearney was a 19th-century American railroad executive and civic leader after whom the city of Kearney, Missouri, is named.
  • 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_69bd446f22b88190b6a47fb91c68a3e7 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd84f034f081908027a43120b6e122 completed March 20, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c04c916df08190a95e3320ab364b52 completed March 22, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04ed9159481909adeb9228ce59d0e completed March 22, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04f7856848190a835c3ee0a32f649 completed March 22, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:52 p.m.