Triple

T13294923
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Nicholas Selig E316655 entity
Predicate hasNotableStudentOrAssociate P304 FINISHED
Object Francis Boggs
Francis Boggs was an early American film director and pioneer of West Coast moviemaking who helped establish the foundations of the Hollywood film industry in the silent era.
E1089457 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: Francis Boggs | Statement: [William Nicholas Selig, hasNotableStudentOrAssociate, Francis Boggs]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis Boggs
Context triple: [William Nicholas Selig, hasNotableStudentOrAssociate, Francis Boggs]
  • A. Francis Hughes
    Francis Hughes was a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer from Northern Ireland who became widely known for dying on hunger strike in the Maze Prison in 1981.
  • B. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • C. Christopher Fairbank
    Christopher Fairbank is a British character actor known for his distinctive features and roles in film and television, including appearances in productions such as "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" and various Shakespearean adaptations.
  • D. Francis Bull
    Francis Bull was a prominent Norwegian literary historian and critic who played a key role in shaping 20th-century Norwegian literary scholarship and language debates.
  • E. William G. Bramham
    William G. Bramham was a prominent early 20th-century baseball executive best known for his influential leadership in organizing and expanding the minor leagues in the United States.
  • 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: Francis Boggs
Triple: [William Nicholas Selig, hasNotableStudentOrAssociate, Francis Boggs]
Generated description
Francis Boggs was an early American film director and pioneer of West Coast moviemaking who helped establish the foundations of the Hollywood film industry in the silent era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis Boggs
Target entity description: Francis Boggs was an early American film director and pioneer of West Coast moviemaking who helped establish the foundations of the Hollywood film industry in the silent era.
  • A. Francis Hughes
    Francis Hughes was a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer from Northern Ireland who became widely known for dying on hunger strike in the Maze Prison in 1981.
  • B. John Blatchley
    John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
  • C. Christopher Fairbank
    Christopher Fairbank is a British character actor known for his distinctive features and roles in film and television, including appearances in productions such as "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" and various Shakespearean adaptations.
  • D. Francis Bull
    Francis Bull was a prominent Norwegian literary historian and critic who played a key role in shaping 20th-century Norwegian literary scholarship and language debates.
  • E. William G. Bramham
    William G. Bramham was a prominent early 20th-century baseball executive best known for his influential leadership in organizing and expanding the minor leagues in the United States.
  • 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_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_69fd3237ccf88190974ff1a49c3a874b completed May 8, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd339f04f48190abd13b7ce459c931 completed May 8, 2026, 12:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd341b65e481908cd39e64e52583eb completed May 8, 2026, 12:53 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:28 p.m.