Triple

T8075089
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New York underground cinema E188470 entity
Predicate notableFigure P4290 FINISHED
Object Marie Menken
Marie Menken was an influential American experimental filmmaker and visual artist whose innovative, lyrical short films made her a central figure in New York’s underground cinema scene of the mid-20th century.
E710266 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: Marie Menken | Statement: [New York underground cinema, notableFigure, Marie Menken]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marie Menken
Context triple: [New York underground cinema, notableFigure, Marie Menken]
  • A. Helen Menken
    Helen Menken was an American stage actress prominent in early 20th-century Broadway theatre and an influential figure in the New York theatrical community.
  • B. Ellen Zinsser McCloy
    Ellen Zinsser McCloy was the wife of influential American lawyer and statesman John J. McCloy, who played major roles in U.S. and international policy in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Harriett Lothrop
    Harriett Lothrop, better known by her pen name Margaret Sidney, was an American author famed for her "Five Little Peppers" series of children's books.
  • D. Margaret Epple
    Margaret Epple was the wife of American actor Lyle Talbot, known for their long marriage and family life together.
  • E. Edith Willkie
    Edith Willkie was the wife of 1940 Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie and an American civic figure active in public and charitable affairs.
  • 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: Marie Menken
Triple: [New York underground cinema, notableFigure, Marie Menken]
Generated description
Marie Menken was an influential American experimental filmmaker and visual artist whose innovative, lyrical short films made her a central figure in New York’s underground cinema scene of the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marie Menken
Target entity description: Marie Menken was an influential American experimental filmmaker and visual artist whose innovative, lyrical short films made her a central figure in New York’s underground cinema scene of the mid-20th century.
  • A. Helen Menken
    Helen Menken was an American stage actress prominent in early 20th-century Broadway theatre and an influential figure in the New York theatrical community.
  • B. Ellen Zinsser McCloy
    Ellen Zinsser McCloy was the wife of influential American lawyer and statesman John J. McCloy, who played major roles in U.S. and international policy in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Harriett Lothrop
    Harriett Lothrop, better known by her pen name Margaret Sidney, was an American author famed for her "Five Little Peppers" series of children's books.
  • D. Margaret Epple
    Margaret Epple was the wife of American actor Lyle Talbot, known for their long marriage and family life together.
  • E. Edith Willkie
    Edith Willkie was the wife of 1940 Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie and an American civic figure active in public and charitable affairs.
  • 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_69ca82b50c708190863f661d438e68df completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb404c513c8190af54d6d6b6d1a81d completed March 31, 2026, 3:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc63f000308190a55379f8bf67f0cd completed April 1, 2026, 12:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc68634dc88190bc9b9e0598929d4d completed April 1, 2026, 12:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc6946aa5481908d682957b818a3e9 completed April 1, 2026, 12:39 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:28 p.m.