Triple

T845894
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Phillips Collection E18273 entity
Predicate hasWorkBy P12366 FINISHED
Object Bill Viola
Bill Viola is an American contemporary video artist renowned for his immersive, slow-motion installations that explore themes of perception, spirituality, and the human condition.
 E100176 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: Bill Viola | Statement: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Bill Viola]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bill Viola
Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Bill Viola]
  • A. Chris Milk
    Chris Milk is an American music video and immersive media director known for his innovative, visually inventive work with major artists and for pioneering interactive and virtual reality storytelling experiences.
  • B. Tavares Strachan
    Tavares Strachan is a Bahamian-born conceptual artist known for his ambitious, research-driven projects that explore themes of identity, history, and the politics of visibility.
  • C. Haskell Wexler
    Haskell Wexler was an acclaimed American cinematographer and filmmaker known for his innovative visual style and influential work on both narrative features and political documentaries.
  • D. Jenny Holzer
    Jenny Holzer is an American conceptual artist renowned for her provocative text-based installations that address themes of power, violence, and social justice in public spaces.
  • E. Isamu Chō
    Isamu Chō was an Imperial Japanese Army general known for his extreme nationalism and key leadership role in Japan’s final World War II battles, including the defense of Okinawa.
  • 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: Bill Viola
Triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Bill Viola]
Generated description
Bill Viola is an American contemporary video artist renowned for his immersive, slow-motion installations that explore themes of perception, spirituality, and the human condition.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bill Viola
Target entity description: Bill Viola is an American contemporary video artist renowned for his immersive, slow-motion installations that explore themes of perception, spirituality, and the human condition.
  • A. Chris Milk
    Chris Milk is an American music video and immersive media director known for his innovative, visually inventive work with major artists and for pioneering interactive and virtual reality storytelling experiences.
  • B. Tavares Strachan
    Tavares Strachan is a Bahamian-born conceptual artist known for his ambitious, research-driven projects that explore themes of identity, history, and the politics of visibility.
  • C. Haskell Wexler
    Haskell Wexler was an acclaimed American cinematographer and filmmaker known for his innovative visual style and influential work on both narrative features and political documentaries.
  • D. Jenny Holzer
    Jenny Holzer is an American conceptual artist renowned for her provocative text-based installations that address themes of power, violence, and social justice in public spaces.
  • E. Isamu Chō
    Isamu Chō was an Imperial Japanese Army general known for his extreme nationalism and key leadership role in Japan’s final World War II battles, including the defense of Okinawa.
  • 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_69a7929e65d08190bcea03f581288cc4 completed March 4, 2026, 2:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7937c2ce481908c04e08e2be02985 completed March 4, 2026, 2:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a79761ee34819094a0558ef195d8a0 completed March 4, 2026, 2:22 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.