Triple
T22167776
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Edison Kinetographic Theater |
E547840
|
entity |
| Predicate | designer |
P184
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FINISHED |
| Object | William Kennedy Laurie Dickson |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Kennedy Laurie Dickson | Statement: [Edison Kinetographic Theater, designer, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Kennedy Laurie Dickson Context triple: [Edison Kinetographic Theater, designer, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson]
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A.
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson
chosen
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a pioneering Scottish inventor and early motion picture engineer who worked with Thomas Edison to develop some of the first practical film cameras and viewing devices.
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B.
William J. Dickson
William J. Dickson was an industrial psychologist best known for his role as a key researcher in the Hawthorne studies on workplace behavior and productivity.
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C.
Sir William Dickson
Sir William Dickson was a British judge who served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was known for his significant contributions to mid-20th-century English jurisprudence.
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D.
Thomas Armat
Thomas Armat was an American inventor and early motion picture pioneer best known for co-developing the Vitascope projector that helped popularize commercial cinema.
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E.
Edward Ringwood Hewitt
Edward Ringwood Hewitt was an American chemist, inventor, and noted fly-fishing author and angler active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e11e3c4c5c81908d336165816b12e0 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f12a6642b08190980fa0c0d2bb4229 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:45 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:34 p.m.