Triple

T11243173
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Cameraman E266125 entity
Predicate cinematographyBy P1953 FINISHED
Object Elgin Lessley
Elgin Lessley was an American cinematographer best known for his innovative camera work on silent films, particularly in collaboration with comedian Buster Keaton.
E913994 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: Elgin Lessley | Statement: [The Cameraman, cinematographyBy, Elgin Lessley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elgin Lessley
Context triple: [The Cameraman, cinematographyBy, Elgin Lessley]
  • A. Max Dennison
    Max Dennison is the skeptical teenage protagonist of the Halloween-themed fantasy film "Hocus Pocus," whose actions accidentally resurrect three witches in Salem.
  • B. Elgin James
    Elgin James is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and former gang member known for creating the television drama series "Mayans M.C." and for his gritty, character-driven storytelling.
  • C. Oscar Finley
    Oscar Finley is a seasoned, cynical Chicago lawyer and co-founder of the small, struggling law firm at the center of John Grisham’s legal thriller "The Litigators."
  • D. Oscar Diggs
    Oscar Diggs is a small-time circus magician and con artist who is swept away to the Land of Oz, where he becomes the legendary Wizard in the film "Oz the Great and Powerful."
  • E. Felix Gillie
    Felix Gillie is a bumbling yet endearing assistant to an unscrupulous undertaker in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Comedy of Terrors."
  • 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: Elgin Lessley
Triple: [The Cameraman, cinematographyBy, Elgin Lessley]
Generated description
Elgin Lessley was an American cinematographer best known for his innovative camera work on silent films, particularly in collaboration with comedian Buster Keaton.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elgin Lessley
Target entity description: Elgin Lessley was an American cinematographer best known for his innovative camera work on silent films, particularly in collaboration with comedian Buster Keaton.
  • A. Max Dennison
    Max Dennison is the skeptical teenage protagonist of the Halloween-themed fantasy film "Hocus Pocus," whose actions accidentally resurrect three witches in Salem.
  • B. Elgin James
    Elgin James is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and former gang member known for creating the television drama series "Mayans M.C." and for his gritty, character-driven storytelling.
  • C. Oscar Finley
    Oscar Finley is a seasoned, cynical Chicago lawyer and co-founder of the small, struggling law firm at the center of John Grisham’s legal thriller "The Litigators."
  • D. Oscar Diggs
    Oscar Diggs is a small-time circus magician and con artist who is swept away to the Land of Oz, where he becomes the legendary Wizard in the film "Oz the Great and Powerful."
  • E. Felix Gillie
    Felix Gillie is a bumbling yet endearing assistant to an unscrupulous undertaker in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Comedy of Terrors."
  • 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_69d6aac656d48190b275efaa7d6074ee completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e91b0b808190bc38008bb344d180 completed April 9, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e4cc69402c8190be8785f892a41c7b completed April 19, 2026, 12:36 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e4d9e87508819080932fac06fb754d completed April 19, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4dda28b0081909245b65faae3533b completed April 19, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:30 p.m.