Triple

T1664738
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Empire (film) E35984 entity
Predicate cinematographer P1953 FINISHED
Object Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and critic widely regarded as a founding figure of avant-garde and diary cinema in New York.
E188471 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: Jonas Mekas | Statement: [Empire (film), cinematographer, Jonas Mekas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jonas Mekas
Context triple: [Empire (film), cinematographer, Jonas Mekas]
  • A. Wallace Berman
    Wallace Berman was an influential American assemblage and mail-art artist associated with the Beat generation and the Los Angeles avant-garde scene.
  • B. Haskell Wexler
    Haskell Wexler was an acclaimed American cinematographer and filmmaker known for his innovative visual style and influential work on both narrative features and political documentaries.
  • C. Arshile Gorky
    Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-American painter whose innovative fusion of Surrealism and abstraction made him a key precursor of Abstract Expressionism.
  • D. Adolph Gottlieb
    Adolph Gottlieb was an American abstract expressionist painter known for his bold symbolic imagery and influential role in mid-20th-century modern art.
  • E. Alfred Bauer
    Alfred Bauer was a German film historian and the first director of the Berlin International Film Festival, playing a key role in establishing it as a major global cinema event.
  • 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: Jonas Mekas
Triple: [Empire (film), cinematographer, Jonas Mekas]
Generated description
Jonas Mekas was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and critic widely regarded as a founding figure of avant-garde and diary cinema in New York.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jonas Mekas
Target entity description: Jonas Mekas was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and critic widely regarded as a founding figure of avant-garde and diary cinema in New York.
  • A. Wallace Berman
    Wallace Berman was an influential American assemblage and mail-art artist associated with the Beat generation and the Los Angeles avant-garde scene.
  • B. Haskell Wexler
    Haskell Wexler was an acclaimed American cinematographer and filmmaker known for his innovative visual style and influential work on both narrative features and political documentaries.
  • C. Man Ray
    Man Ray was an American visual artist and photographer renowned for his pioneering contributions to Dada and Surrealism, especially his experimental "rayograph" photograms and avant-garde portraits.
  • D. Arshile Gorky
    Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-American painter whose innovative fusion of Surrealism and abstraction made him a key precursor of Abstract Expressionism.
  • E. Adolph Gottlieb
    Adolph Gottlieb was an American abstract expressionist painter known for his bold symbolic imagery and influential role in mid-20th-century modern art.
  • 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_69a88606aa808190aa0b421b4271f220 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90ad958f48190a6344e1be78b574d completed March 5, 2026, 4:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad682fd42881908ecd0f331e81aba8 completed March 8, 2026, 12:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad69c8af5481909d73d90e1dcaf560 completed March 8, 2026, 12:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad6a4aebb88190a27350216add031b completed March 8, 2026, 12:23 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.