Triple

T1140668
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Birth of a Nation E23441 entity
Predicate stars P1956 FINISHED
Object George Siegmann
George Siegmann was an American silent film actor known for his powerful character roles, including a prominent part in D.W. Griffith’s landmark film "The Birth of a Nation."
E277641 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: George Siegmann | Statement: [The Birth of a Nation, stars, George Siegmann]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Siegmann
Context triple: [The Birth of a Nation, stars, George Siegmann]
  • A. John Carl Warnecke
    John Carl Warnecke was a prominent American architect known for his influential modernist designs and his role in shaping mid-20th-century civic and memorial architecture in the United States.
  • B. Walter Naegle
    Walter Naegle is an American activist and archivist best known as the longtime partner and estate executor of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
  • C. George Boemler
    George Boemler was a film editor known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the musical comedy "High Society."
  • D. William Sachse
    William Sachse was a 19th-century Texas pioneer and landowner after whom the city of Sachse, Texas, is named.
  • E. Erich Rothacker
    Erich Rothacker was a German philosopher and cultural theorist known for his work in philosophical anthropology and the humanities, and for supervising Jürgen Habermas’s doctoral studies.
  • 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: George Siegmann
Triple: [The Birth of a Nation, stars, George Siegmann]
Generated description
George Siegmann was an American silent film actor known for his powerful character roles, including a prominent part in D.W. Griffith’s landmark film "The Birth of a Nation."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Siegmann
Target entity description: George Siegmann was an American silent film actor known for his powerful character roles, including a prominent part in D.W. Griffith’s landmark film "The Birth of a Nation."
  • A. John Carl Warnecke
    John Carl Warnecke was a prominent American architect known for his influential modernist designs and his role in shaping mid-20th-century civic and memorial architecture in the United States.
  • B. Walter Naegle
    Walter Naegle is an American activist and archivist best known as the longtime partner and estate executor of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
  • C. George Boemler
    George Boemler was a film editor known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the musical comedy "High Society."
  • D. William Sachse
    William Sachse was a 19th-century Texas pioneer and landowner after whom the city of Sachse, Texas, is named.
  • E. Erich Rothacker
    Erich Rothacker was a German philosopher and cultural theorist known for his work in philosophical anthropology and the humanities, and for supervising Jürgen Habermas’s doctoral studies.
  • 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_69af5ca0ede48190b2c45761a3f92517 completed March 9, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af5f3ca94c8190a316b507dcec4599 completed March 10, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af5fa4d13481908d0dac97dff14cc4 completed March 10, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.