Triple

T14843137
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Vanishing Prairie E349016 entity
Predicate cinematographyBy P1953 FINISHED
Object William L. Sickles
William L. Sickles was a cinematographer known for his work on the 1954 Walt Disney nature documentary "The Vanishing Prairie."
E1121467 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: William L. Sickles | Statement: [The Vanishing Prairie, cinematographyBy, William L. Sickles]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William L. Sickles
Context triple: [The Vanishing Prairie, cinematographyBy, William L. Sickles]
  • A. Daniel Sickles
    Daniel Sickles was a controversial Union general and politician best known for his unauthorized and disastrous advance at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
  • B. Thomas Corwin
    Thomas Corwin was a prominent 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Ohio, U.S. senator, and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, noted for his eloquence and opposition to the Mexican–American War.
  • C. Benjamin B. Hotchkiss
    Benjamin B. Hotchkiss was a 19th-century American-born engineer and industrialist best known for founding a major armaments company in France and developing innovative artillery and machine guns.
  • D. Moses H. Sherman
    Moses H. Sherman was an American railroad executive and real estate developer who played a key role in the early urban and transportation development of Los Angeles and the American Southwest.
  • E. William P. Van Ness
    William P. Van Ness was an American lawyer, judge, and close ally of Aaron Burr who notably served as Burr’s second in the famous 1804 duel with Alexander Hamilton.
  • 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: William L. Sickles
Triple: [The Vanishing Prairie, cinematographyBy, William L. Sickles]
Generated description
William L. Sickles was a cinematographer known for his work on the 1954 Walt Disney nature documentary "The Vanishing Prairie."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William L. Sickles
Target entity description: William L. Sickles was a cinematographer known for his work on the 1954 Walt Disney nature documentary "The Vanishing Prairie."
  • A. Daniel Sickles
    Daniel Sickles was a controversial Union general and politician best known for his unauthorized and disastrous advance at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
  • B. Thomas Corwin
    Thomas Corwin was a prominent 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Ohio, U.S. senator, and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, noted for his eloquence and opposition to the Mexican–American War.
  • C. Benjamin B. Hotchkiss
    Benjamin B. Hotchkiss was a 19th-century American-born engineer and industrialist best known for founding a major armaments company in France and developing innovative artillery and machine guns.
  • D. Moses H. Sherman
    Moses H. Sherman was an American railroad executive and real estate developer who played a key role in the early urban and transportation development of Los Angeles and the American Southwest.
  • E. William P. Van Ness
    William P. Van Ness was an American lawyer, judge, and close ally of Aaron Burr who notably served as Burr’s second in the famous 1804 duel with Alexander Hamilton.
  • 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_69d822ec69008190a9232caa68836872 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded28fa49c81908d1059e6cafd607f completed April 14, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe38ab372881909f60435e73424aea completed May 8, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe3b2bb95c819092a280384b71461d completed May 8, 2026, 7:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe3bbf7de481908cc8b65a8e737d31 completed May 8, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:53 a.m.