Triple
T13294882
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Nicholas Selig |
E316655
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Nicholas Selig |
E316655
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Nicholas Selig | Statement: [William Nicholas Selig, name, William Nicholas Selig]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Nicholas Selig Context triple: [William Nicholas Selig, name, William Nicholas Selig]
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A.
William Nicholas Selig
chosen
William Nicholas Selig was an early American film producer and studio pioneer who helped establish the motion picture industry in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Isador Lubin
Isador Lubin was an American economist and government official known for his influential work in labor statistics and economic policy during the New Deal era.
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C.
Carl Laemmle
Carl Laemmle was a pioneering German-American film producer and studio executive who founded Universal Pictures and helped shape the early Hollywood studio system.
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D.
Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett was a pioneering Canadian-American film director and producer known as the "King of Comedy" for his influential slapstick silent films and for founding Keystone Studios.
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E.
Jesse L. Lasky
Jesse L. Lasky was a pioneering American film producer and co-founder of Paramount Pictures who played a key role in the development of early Hollywood cinema.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d806b40ab4819094adf6c374f4811a |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d99079c8508190b6208db9affcbc0e |
completed | April 11, 2026, 12:06 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f716d8ee2081908428339216c43b47 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 9:35 a.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:28 p.m.