Triple

T1140663
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Birth of a Nation E23441 entity
Predicate stars P1956 FINISHED
Object Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish was a pioneering American film actress whose expressive performances in silent cinema, particularly in collaborations with director D.W. Griffith, earned her the title "First Lady of American Cinema."
E166491 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: Lillian Gish | Statement: [The Birth of a Nation, stars, Lillian Gish]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lillian Gish
Context triple: [The Birth of a Nation, stars, Lillian Gish]
  • A. Agnes Moorehead
    Agnes Moorehead was an American actress renowned for her powerful character roles in film, radio, and television, notably in Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre and as Endora on the TV series "Bewitched."
  • B. Dorothy McGuire
    Dorothy McGuire was an American film and stage actress known for her sensitive, understated performances in classic mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
  • C. Fay Bainter
    Fay Bainter was an American stage and film actress, active from the silent era through the mid-20th century, who became one of the first performers to receive Academy Award nominations in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories in the same year.
  • D. Thelma Ritter
    Thelma Ritter was an acclaimed American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, humorous supporting roles in classic mid-20th-century films and for receiving multiple Academy Award nominations.
  • E. Mary Pickford
    Mary Pickford was a pioneering Canadian-American silent film actress, producer, and co-founder of United Artists, often called "America's Sweetheart" and regarded as one of early Hollywood's most influential stars.
  • 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: Lillian Gish
Triple: [The Birth of a Nation, stars, Lillian Gish]
Generated description
Lillian Gish was a pioneering American film actress whose expressive performances in silent cinema, particularly in collaborations with director D.W. Griffith, earned her the title "First Lady of American Cinema."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lillian Gish
Target entity description: Lillian Gish was a pioneering American film actress whose expressive performances in silent cinema, particularly in collaborations with director D.W. Griffith, earned her the title "First Lady of American Cinema."
  • A. Agnes Moorehead
    Agnes Moorehead was an American actress renowned for her powerful character roles in film, radio, and television, notably in Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre and as Endora on the TV series "Bewitched."
  • B. Dorothy McGuire
    Dorothy McGuire was an American film and stage actress known for her sensitive, understated performances in classic mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
  • C. Fay Bainter
    Fay Bainter was an American stage and film actress, active from the silent era through the mid-20th century, who became one of the first performers to receive Academy Award nominations in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories in the same year.
  • D. Thelma Ritter
    Thelma Ritter was an acclaimed American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, humorous supporting roles in classic mid-20th-century films and for receiving multiple Academy Award nominations.
  • E. Mary Pickford
    Mary Pickford was a pioneering Canadian-American silent film actress, producer, and co-founder of United Artists, often called "America's Sweetheart" and regarded as one of early Hollywood's most influential stars.
  • 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_69a493ef399c8190b04b9146d2314f59 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bc290ae08190afbf7e7ea2100d9e completed March 1, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad0e5bc6348190a0d23fe269707e1b completed March 8, 2026, 5:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad0eff5f7c81908e9bfdeb1819aa2a completed March 8, 2026, 5:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0f5c864c8190874a413ac67ba43a completed March 8, 2026, 5:55 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.