Triple

T10954518
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sunny E258807 entity
Predicate filmAdaptationDirector P255 FINISHED
Object William A. Seiter
William A. Seiter was an American film director best known for his work on Hollywood comedies and musicals from the silent era through the 1950s.
E1175721 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: William A. Seiter | Statement: [Sunny, filmAdaptationDirector, William A. Seiter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William A. Seiter
Context triple: [Sunny, filmAdaptationDirector, William A. Seiter]
  • A. Victor J. Kemper
    Victor J. Kemper is an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous popular films from the 1970s and 1980s, including "Dog Day Afternoon" and "National Lampoon's Vacation."
  • B. George B. Schubauer
    George B. Schubauer was an American engineer and experimental physicist known for his influential work in fluid mechanics and turbulence research.
  • C. John F. Seitz
    John F. Seitz was a prominent American cinematographer best known for his influential work in early Hollywood and on classic film noirs such as Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard.
  • D. William R. Schowalter
    William R. Schowalter is an American chemical engineer and fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and transport phenomena.
  • E. Charles O. Baumann
    Charles O. Baumann was an early American film producer and studio executive who played a significant role in the development of the motion picture industry in the early 20th century.
  • 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: William A. Seiter
Triple: [Sunny, filmAdaptationDirector, William A. Seiter]
Generated description
William A. Seiter was an American film director best known for his work on Hollywood comedies and musicals from the silent era through the 1950s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William A. Seiter
Target entity description: William A. Seiter was an American film director best known for his work on Hollywood comedies and musicals from the silent era through the 1950s.
  • A. Victor J. Kemper
    Victor J. Kemper is an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous popular films from the 1970s and 1980s, including "Dog Day Afternoon" and "National Lampoon's Vacation."
  • B. George B. Schubauer
    George B. Schubauer was an American engineer and experimental physicist known for his influential work in fluid mechanics and turbulence research.
  • C. John F. Seitz
    John F. Seitz was a prominent American cinematographer best known for his influential work in early Hollywood and on classic film noirs such as Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard.
  • D. William R. Schowalter
    William R. Schowalter is an American chemical engineer and fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and transport phenomena.
  • E. Charles O. Baumann
    Charles O. Baumann was an early American film producer and studio executive who played a significant role in the development of the motion picture industry in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69d6aa88500c819097d7032ca578e74f completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d770ff718c81909d4baebea3b56b83 completed April 9, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff8752207c81908369bce03b56b25e completed May 9, 2026, 7:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff8b4bbd88819087d62c9d1b647ce0 completed May 9, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff8bf65a948190a1dadfd3b8496c0a completed May 9, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:23 p.m.