Triple

T1823676
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lights of New York E40601 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Vitae Scherer
Vitae Scherer was a screenwriter best known for co-writing the pioneering early sound gangster film "Lights of New York" (1928).
E203843 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: Vitae Scherer | Statement: [Lights of New York, screenwriter, Vitae Scherer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vitae Scherer
Context triple: [Lights of New York, screenwriter, Vitae Scherer]
  • A. Walter Blume
    Walter Blume was a German aircraft designer and former World War I fighter ace best known for his work on advanced Luftwaffe aircraft during the Second World War.
  • B. Theodore Brentano
    Theodore Brentano was an American diplomat and jurist who served as the first U.S. Ambassador to Hungary in the early 20th century.
  • C. Soma Morgenstern
    Soma Morgenstern was an Austrian-Jewish writer and journalist best known for his novels and memoirs depicting Jewish life in Eastern Europe and the impact of 20th-century upheavals.
  • D. George Weil
    George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
  • E. Victor Grinich
    Victor Grinich was an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the Traitorous Eight who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s semiconductor industry.
  • 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: Vitae Scherer
Triple: [Lights of New York, screenwriter, Vitae Scherer]
Generated description
Vitae Scherer was a screenwriter best known for co-writing the pioneering early sound gangster film "Lights of New York" (1928).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vitae Scherer
Target entity description: Vitae Scherer was a screenwriter best known for co-writing the pioneering early sound gangster film "Lights of New York" (1928).
  • A. Walter Blume
    Walter Blume was a German aircraft designer and former World War I fighter ace best known for his work on advanced Luftwaffe aircraft during the Second World War.
  • B. Theodore Brentano
    Theodore Brentano was an American diplomat and jurist who served as the first U.S. Ambassador to Hungary in the early 20th century.
  • C. Soma Morgenstern
    Soma Morgenstern was an Austrian-Jewish writer and journalist best known for his novels and memoirs depicting Jewish life in Eastern Europe and the impact of 20th-century upheavals.
  • D. George Weil
    George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
  • E. Victor Grinich
    Victor Grinich was an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the Traitorous Eight who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s semiconductor industry.
  • 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_69a8864644bc8190b2358ab897194ac1 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa662d13e88190a22b0faf0d848c7d completed March 6, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adbf6722f081908c5368a09d1507ac completed March 8, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adc0a4ab488190b8ff962980abb5b7 completed March 8, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adc13330888190a2b99c6fcbb97d49 completed March 8, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.