Triple

T2754143
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vitagraph Company of America E61060 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object J. Stuart Blackton
J. Stuart Blackton was a pioneering early filmmaker and animator often regarded as one of the fathers of American animation and a key figure in the silent film era.
E311155 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: J. Stuart Blackton | Statement: [Vitagraph Company of America, foundedBy, J. Stuart Blackton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. Stuart Blackton
Context triple: [Vitagraph Company of America, foundedBy, J. Stuart Blackton]
  • A. Edwin S. Porter
    Edwin S. Porter was an early American film pioneer and director best known for his groundbreaking 1903 silent film "The Great Train Robbery."
  • B. Mack Sennett
    Mack Sennett was a pioneering Canadian-American film director and producer known as the "King of Comedy" for his influential slapstick silent films and for founding Keystone Studios.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Georges Méliès
    Georges Méliès was a pioneering French filmmaker and illusionist, best known for his innovative special effects and early narrative films such as "A Trip to the Moon."
  • E. Gaston Méliès
    Gaston Méliès was a French film producer and director, brother of cinema pioneer Georges Méliès, who played an important role in early American and international filmmaking.
  • 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: J. Stuart Blackton
Triple: [Vitagraph Company of America, foundedBy, J. Stuart Blackton]
Generated description
J. Stuart Blackton was a pioneering early filmmaker and animator often regarded as one of the fathers of American animation and a key figure in the silent film era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. Stuart Blackton
Target entity description: J. Stuart Blackton was a pioneering early filmmaker and animator often regarded as one of the fathers of American animation and a key figure in the silent film era.
  • A. Edwin S. Porter
    Edwin S. Porter was an early American film pioneer and director best known for his groundbreaking 1903 silent film "The Great Train Robbery."
  • B. Mack Sennett
    Mack Sennett was a pioneering Canadian-American film director and producer known as the "King of Comedy" for his influential slapstick silent films and for founding Keystone Studios.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Georges Méliès
    Georges Méliès was a pioneering French filmmaker and illusionist, best known for his innovative special effects and early narrative films such as "A Trip to the Moon."
  • E. Gaston Méliès
    Gaston Méliès was a French film producer and director, brother of cinema pioneer Georges Méliès, who played an important role in early American and international filmmaking.
  • 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_69ab4b7a85bc819094a349b84beb1f2c completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdb7073d081909da84b21015972f2 completed March 7, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b08633e4108190a783b29a10efcc76 completed March 10, 2026, 8:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b0cf0fbd0c81909467fa163ec661ba completed March 11, 2026, 2:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0d2d300cc8190871d2b89ae3cc9f5 completed March 11, 2026, 2:26 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:56 p.m.