Triple

T2047970
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Broadway Melody of 1940 E45497 entity
Predicate cinematographyBy P1953 FINISHED
Object Oliver T. Marsh
Oliver T. Marsh was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films, particularly lavish MGM musicals of the 1930s and 1940s.
E597824 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: Oliver T. Marsh | Statement: [Broadway Melody of 1940, cinematographyBy, Oliver T. Marsh]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oliver T. Marsh
Context triple: [Broadway Melody of 1940, cinematographyBy, Oliver T. Marsh]
  • A. Charles H. Mason
    Charles H. Mason was an early American politician who served as the first Secretary of Washington Territory in the mid-19th century.
  • B. Gustavus W. Smith
    Gustavus W. Smith was a Confederate major general and briefly acting commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
  • C. Nathaniel A. Owings
    Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
  • D. Oliver P. Smith
    Oliver P. Smith was a highly respected U.S. Marine Corps general best known for his leadership of Marines during the Korean War, particularly at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.
  • E. George T. Brown
    George T. Brown was an American businessman best known as a founder of the Brown & Williamson tobacco company, which became one of the major U.S. cigarette manufacturers.
  • 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: Oliver T. Marsh
Triple: [Broadway Melody of 1940, cinematographyBy, Oliver T. Marsh]
Generated description
Oliver T. Marsh was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films, particularly lavish MGM musicals of the 1930s and 1940s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oliver T. Marsh
Target entity description: Oliver T. Marsh was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films, particularly lavish MGM musicals of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • A. Charles H. Mason
    Charles H. Mason was an early American politician who served as the first Secretary of Washington Territory in the mid-19th century.
  • B. Gustavus W. Smith
    Gustavus W. Smith was a Confederate major general and briefly acting commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
  • C. Nathaniel A. Owings
    Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
  • D. Oliver P. Smith
    Oliver P. Smith was a highly respected U.S. Marine Corps general best known for his leadership of Marines during the Korean War, particularly at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.
  • E. George T. Brown
    George T. Brown was an American businessman best known as a founder of the Brown & Williamson tobacco company, which became one of the major U.S. cigarette manufacturers.
  • 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_69a8891948208190ab7898da21824c77 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb974e8488190887b840c2cb88b3a completed March 7, 2026, 5:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6636635c481908482c3a7e7cf311b completed March 27, 2026, 11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6640dd5b08190a2af7b9af0cced0f completed March 27, 2026, 11:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c66470cb108190850be65b3efeb3fb completed March 27, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:39 p.m.