Triple

T6689671
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elgin Theatre E152591 entity
Predicate architect P184 FINISHED
Object Thomas W. Lamb
Thomas W. Lamb was a prominent early 20th-century architect best known for designing grand movie palaces and theaters across North America and beyond.
E614245 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: Thomas W. Lamb | Statement: [Elgin Theatre, architect, Thomas W. Lamb]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas W. Lamb
Context triple: [Elgin Theatre, architect, Thomas W. Lamb]
  • A. Oscar W. Griswold
    Oscar W. Griswold was a senior U.S. Army general in World War II who played a key leadership role in the Pacific theater, particularly in the liberation of the Philippines.
  • B. William Nigh
    William Nigh was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor active from the silent era through the 1940s, known for his work on low-budget genre films.
  • C. John Swope
    John Swope was an American photographer and aviator known for his work documenting World War II and Hollywood, and for being married to actress Dorothy McGuire.
  • D. Edwin Blashfield
    Edwin Blashfield was an American muralist and painter best known for his large-scale allegorical works in prominent public buildings across the United States.
  • E. John Haviland
    John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
  • 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: Thomas W. Lamb
Triple: [Elgin Theatre, architect, Thomas W. Lamb]
Generated description
Thomas W. Lamb was a prominent early 20th-century architect best known for designing grand movie palaces and theaters across North America and beyond.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas W. Lamb
Target entity description: Thomas W. Lamb was a prominent early 20th-century architect best known for designing grand movie palaces and theaters across North America and beyond.
  • A. Oscar W. Griswold
    Oscar W. Griswold was a senior U.S. Army general in World War II who played a key leadership role in the Pacific theater, particularly in the liberation of the Philippines.
  • B. William Nigh
    William Nigh was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor active from the silent era through the 1940s, known for his work on low-budget genre films.
  • C. John Swope
    John Swope was an American photographer and aviator known for his work documenting World War II and Hollywood, and for being married to actress Dorothy McGuire.
  • D. Edwin Blashfield
    Edwin Blashfield was an American muralist and painter best known for his large-scale allegorical works in prominent public buildings across the United States.
  • E. John Haviland
    John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
  • 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_69c6880687b08190805278b504d1c92c completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6b15149408190ac679d037d87cba7 completed March 27, 2026, 4:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7007d2cb881909cebe2ab0d55ce3d completed March 27, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7054749ac8190b0d8153dcf9fd8a0 completed March 27, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c705db3098819083ce9a93e429b758 completed March 27, 2026, 10:34 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:04 p.m.