Triple

T845886
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Phillips Collection E18273 entity
Predicate hasWorkBy P12366 FINISHED
Object Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff is a contemporary German photographer renowned for his large-scale, conceptually driven works that explore the nature of images and perception.
E106649 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 Ruff | Statement: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Thomas Ruff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Ruff
Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Thomas Ruff]
  • A. Wolfgang Tillmans
    Wolfgang Tillmans is a German photographer and artist renowned for his innovative, often abstract and experimental approach to photography that blurs the boundaries between fine art and documentary.
  • B. Andreas Gursky
    Andreas Gursky is a German photographer renowned for his large-scale, digitally manipulated images that depict contemporary life, architecture, and globalized landscapes with striking detail and precision.
  • C. Thomas Struth
    Thomas Struth is a German photographer renowned for his large-scale color images of urban scenes, museum interiors, and family portraits that explore the relationship between people, architecture, and public space.
  • D. Thomas Demand
    Thomas Demand is a contemporary German artist known for his meticulously constructed life-sized paper models that he photographs to explore themes of memory, media, and representation.
  • E. Hiroshi Sugimoto
    Hiroshi Sugimoto is a renowned Japanese photographer and contemporary artist known for his meditative black-and-white series exploring time, memory, and perception.
  • 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 Ruff
Triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Thomas Ruff]
Generated description
Thomas Ruff is a contemporary German photographer renowned for his large-scale, conceptually driven works that explore the nature of images and perception.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Ruff
Target entity description: Thomas Ruff is a contemporary German photographer renowned for his large-scale, conceptually driven works that explore the nature of images and perception.
  • A. Wolfgang Tillmans
    Wolfgang Tillmans is a German photographer and artist renowned for his innovative, often abstract and experimental approach to photography that blurs the boundaries between fine art and documentary.
  • B. Andreas Gursky
    Andreas Gursky is a German photographer renowned for his large-scale, digitally manipulated images that depict contemporary life, architecture, and globalized landscapes with striking detail and precision.
  • C. Thomas Struth
    Thomas Struth is a German photographer renowned for his large-scale color images of urban scenes, museum interiors, and family portraits that explore the relationship between people, architecture, and public space.
  • D. Thomas Demand
    Thomas Demand is a contemporary German artist known for his meticulously constructed life-sized paper models that he photographs to explore themes of memory, media, and representation.
  • E. Hiroshi Sugimoto
    Hiroshi Sugimoto is a renowned Japanese photographer and contemporary artist known for his meditative black-and-white series exploring time, memory, and perception.
  • 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_69a4938b04208190b82e1df6b572c548 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac0a91e48190b4349ae8bb67fd90 completed March 1, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7c714fc948190b84d34192b0064ff completed March 4, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7c82c5b888190ae5440f5d06d2bce completed March 4, 2026, 5:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7c8991e7c81908c31d60f9a7f2340 completed March 4, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.