Triple

T12565454
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Flora Finch E295465 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Vitagraph comedy shorts
Vitagraph comedy shorts are early 20th-century silent film comedies produced by the Vitagraph Company of America, known for their brief, humorous sketches and influential role in developing screen comedy.
E989552 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: Vitagraph comedy shorts | Statement: [Flora Finch, notableWork, Vitagraph comedy shorts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vitagraph comedy shorts
Context triple: [Flora Finch, notableWork, Vitagraph comedy shorts]
  • A. Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts comedy shorts
    Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts comedy shorts are a series of early 1930s Hal Roach studio two-reel comedies featuring the comedic duo in lighthearted, fast-paced misadventures.
  • B. Buster Keaton Productions
    Buster Keaton Productions was the film production company founded by silent-era comedian and filmmaker Buster Keaton to create and produce his own comedy shorts and features in the 1920s.
  • C. Harold Lloyd sound-era films
    Harold Lloyd sound-era films are the comedies the silent-era star made after the advent of synchronized sound, showcasing his transition into talking pictures in the late 1920s and 1930s.
  • D. St. Louis Blues (1929 short film)
    St. Louis Blues (1929 short film) is a musical short starring blues legend Bessie Smith, notable for its early cinematic portrayal of classic blues performance.
  • E. Vitaphone
    Vitaphone was an early sound-on-disc motion picture system developed by Warner Bros. that played a key role in the transition from silent films to “talkies” in the late 1920s.
  • 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: Vitagraph comedy shorts
Triple: [Flora Finch, notableWork, Vitagraph comedy shorts]
Generated description
Vitagraph comedy shorts are early 20th-century silent film comedies produced by the Vitagraph Company of America, known for their brief, humorous sketches and influential role in developing screen comedy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vitagraph comedy shorts
Target entity description: Vitagraph comedy shorts are early 20th-century silent film comedies produced by the Vitagraph Company of America, known for their brief, humorous sketches and influential role in developing screen comedy.
  • A. Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts comedy shorts
    Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts comedy shorts are a series of early 1930s Hal Roach studio two-reel comedies featuring the comedic duo in lighthearted, fast-paced misadventures.
  • B. Buster Keaton Productions
    Buster Keaton Productions was the film production company founded by silent-era comedian and filmmaker Buster Keaton to create and produce his own comedy shorts and features in the 1920s.
  • C. Harold Lloyd sound-era films
    Harold Lloyd sound-era films are the comedies the silent-era star made after the advent of synchronized sound, showcasing his transition into talking pictures in the late 1920s and 1930s.
  • D. St. Louis Blues (1929 short film)
    St. Louis Blues (1929 short film) is a musical short starring blues legend Bessie Smith, notable for its early cinematic portrayal of classic blues performance.
  • E. Vitaphone
    Vitaphone was an early sound-on-disc motion picture system developed by Warner Bros. that played a key role in the transition from silent films to “talkies” in the late 1920s.
  • 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_69d6ad9cac2c81908e8a7bed82d1e21d completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9549611c081909e611756f3cce7f0 completed April 10, 2026, 7:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6558f87b081909ba179b49bae3913 completed May 2, 2026, 7:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f656a86ff48190bd3debd30e11df80 completed May 2, 2026, 7:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f657b1b13c8190984300f24c0b2083 completed May 2, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 11:49 p.m.