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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.