Triple

T961402
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Paramount Pictures E20743 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object W. W. Hodkinson
W. W. Hodkinson was an early American film industry pioneer known as the “Father of Film Distribution” for creating the first nationwide movie distribution system and helping establish Paramount Pictures.
E217648 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: W. W. Hodkinson | Statement: [Paramount Pictures, founder, W. W. Hodkinson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. W. Hodkinson
Context triple: [Paramount Pictures, founder, W. W. Hodkinson]
  • A. Robert Hodgen
    Robert Hodgen was an early settler and landowner in central Kentucky whose name was given to the town of Hodgenville.
  • B. H. A. Prichard
    H. A. Prichard was a 20th-century British moral philosopher known for his influential work in intuitionist ethics and his critique of consequentialist moral theories.
  • C. Victor A. Crutchley
    Victor A. Crutchley was a British Royal Navy admiral and Victoria Cross recipient who served with distinction in both World Wars.
  • D. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • E. Robert Hinde
    Robert Hinde was a British zoologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal behavior and social relationships, and for mentoring influential primatologists such as Jane Goodall.
  • 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: W. W. Hodkinson
Triple: [Paramount Pictures, founder, W. W. Hodkinson]
Generated description
W. W. Hodkinson was an early American film industry pioneer known as the “Father of Film Distribution” for creating the first nationwide movie distribution system and helping establish Paramount Pictures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. W. Hodkinson
Target entity description: W. W. Hodkinson was an early American film industry pioneer known as the “Father of Film Distribution” for creating the first nationwide movie distribution system and helping establish Paramount Pictures.
  • A. Robert Hodgen
    Robert Hodgen was an early settler and landowner in central Kentucky whose name was given to the town of Hodgenville.
  • B. H. A. Prichard
    H. A. Prichard was a 20th-century British moral philosopher known for his influential work in intuitionist ethics and his critique of consequentialist moral theories.
  • C. Victor A. Crutchley
    Victor A. Crutchley was a British Royal Navy admiral and Victoria Cross recipient who served with distinction in both World Wars.
  • D. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • E. Robert Hinde
    Robert Hinde was a British zoologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal behavior and social relationships, and for mentoring influential primatologists such as Jane Goodall.
  • 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_69a493b21f2881908132dcf45dcd2f36 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b4144c208190980936347a95e233 completed March 1, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adf3a5cac081908d655e42a58a81c5 completed March 8, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adf55207248190bd903c7faa3729e7 completed March 8, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adf5e074088190b6b383fb93cd18d8 completed March 8, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.