Triple

T3022851
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Spiral Staircase E82504 entity
Predicate cinematographer P1953 FINISHED
Object Nicholas Musuraca
Nicholas Musuraca was an influential Italian-American cinematographer best known for his atmospheric, shadow-rich visual style that helped define classic film noir.
E407598 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: Nicholas Musuraca | Statement: [The Spiral Staircase, cinematographer, Nicholas Musuraca]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Musuraca
Context triple: [The Spiral Staircase, cinematographer, Nicholas Musuraca]
  • A. Paul De Meo
    Paul De Meo was an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing action and war-themed films and television projects, often in collaboration with J. Michael Straczynski and others.
  • B. Paul Merolla
    Paul Merolla is a neuroscientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Neuralink, the neurotechnology company developing brain–computer interfaces.
  • C. Dominic Fumusa
    Dominic Fumusa is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in projects like the series "Nurse Jackie" and various feature films.
  • D. Anthony Rossomando
    Anthony Rossomando is an American musician and songwriter best known for co-writing the hit song "Shallow" from the 2018 film *A Star Is Born*.
  • E. Lorenzo Senatore
    Lorenzo Senatore is a cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the military drama "Megan Leavey."
  • 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: Nicholas Musuraca
Triple: [The Spiral Staircase, cinematographer, Nicholas Musuraca]
Generated description
Nicholas Musuraca was an influential Italian-American cinematographer best known for his atmospheric, shadow-rich visual style that helped define classic film noir.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Musuraca
Target entity description: Nicholas Musuraca was an influential Italian-American cinematographer best known for his atmospheric, shadow-rich visual style that helped define classic film noir.
  • A. Paul De Meo
    Paul De Meo was an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing action and war-themed films and television projects, often in collaboration with J. Michael Straczynski and others.
  • B. Paul Merolla
    Paul Merolla is a neuroscientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Neuralink, the neurotechnology company developing brain–computer interfaces.
  • C. Dominic Fumusa
    Dominic Fumusa is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in projects like the series "Nurse Jackie" and various feature films.
  • D. Anthony Rossomando
    Anthony Rossomando is an American musician and songwriter best known for co-writing the hit song "Shallow" from the 2018 film *A Star Is Born*.
  • E. Lorenzo Senatore
    Lorenzo Senatore is a cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the military drama "Megan Leavey."
  • 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_69ad8b1fb34081908c1b873e2b7273e1 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9a963034819093d96566e9b0cea9 completed March 8, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b54c16c05481908f451b492ca9f47f completed March 14, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b54fd243888190aba6b39d20608f69 completed March 14, 2026, 12:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5502f28808190af903cfc81f99d61 completed March 14, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3 p.m.