Triple
T16226537
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William A. Wellman |
E393864
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
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FINISHED |
| Object |
William Augustus Wellman
William Augustus Wellman was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for directing the World War I aviation epic "Wings" (1927), the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
|
E1200812
|
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 Augustus Wellman | Statement: [William A. Wellman, fullName, William Augustus Wellman]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Augustus Wellman Context triple: [William A. Wellman, fullName, William Augustus Wellman]
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A.
Arthur H. Gorson
Arthur H. Gorson is a film and music producer known for his work on projects such as the horror film "Cronos" and for collaborating with notable directors and musicians.
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B.
Herbert Brenon
Herbert Brenon was an Irish-born American film director prominent in the silent era, known for adapting major literary works and staging visually ambitious productions.
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C.
Russell Rouse
Russell Rouse was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer known for his work in mid-20th-century Hollywood crime dramas and Westerns.
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D.
Morris L. Wise
Morris L. Wise is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a distinguished bearer of the surname Wise, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not readily available.
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E.
Gregory Ratoff
Gregory Ratoff was a Russian-born American actor, director, and producer known for his character roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
- 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 Augustus Wellman Triple: [William A. Wellman, fullName, William Augustus Wellman]
Generated description
William Augustus Wellman was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for directing the World War I aviation epic "Wings" (1927), the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Augustus Wellman Target entity description: William Augustus Wellman was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for directing the World War I aviation epic "Wings" (1927), the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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A.
Arthur H. Gorson
Arthur H. Gorson is a film and music producer known for his work on projects such as the horror film "Cronos" and for collaborating with notable directors and musicians.
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B.
Herbert Brenon
Herbert Brenon was an Irish-born American film director prominent in the silent era, known for adapting major literary works and staging visually ambitious productions.
-
C.
Russell Rouse
Russell Rouse was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer known for his work in mid-20th-century Hollywood crime dramas and Westerns.
-
D.
Morris L. Wise
Morris L. Wise is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a distinguished bearer of the surname Wise, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not readily available.
-
E.
Gregory Ratoff
Gregory Ratoff was a Russian-born American actor, director, and producer known for his character roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
- 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_69d87f204df88190a8f88923decf9835 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e23d26b02c819080b70ab7cc3bcc24 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:01 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a00079c4184819091d3355a5afaeced |
completed | May 10, 2026, 4:20 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a0009f631e08190aae358edc9ffad6b |
completed | May 10, 2026, 4:30 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a000a6de0488190ac72fb9eee9ec531 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 4:32 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:03 a.m.