Triple
T2754186
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Vitagraph Company of America |
E61060
|
entity |
| Predicate | employed |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | J. Stuart Blackton |
E311155
|
NE FINISHED |
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: J. Stuart Blackton | Statement: [Vitagraph Company of America, employed, 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, employed, J. Stuart Blackton]
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A.
J. Stuart Blackton
chosen
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.
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B.
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."
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C.
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.
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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.
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."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69b0fc4702348190bb0ca7426928ac52 |
completed | March 11, 2026, 5:23 a.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:56 p.m.