Triple
T3474309
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Manhattan Melodrama |
E73333
|
entity |
| Predicate | cinematography |
P1953
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Wong Howe |
E152920
|
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: James Wong Howe | Statement: [Manhattan Melodrama, cinematography, James Wong Howe]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Wong Howe Context triple: [Manhattan Melodrama, cinematography, James Wong Howe]
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A.
James Wong Howe
chosen
James Wong Howe was a pioneering Chinese-American cinematographer renowned for his innovative camera techniques and influential visual style in classic Hollywood cinema.
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B.
Victor Sen Yung
Victor Sen Yung was a Chinese American character actor best known for his roles as Hop Sing on the television series "Bonanza" and as Jimmy Chan in the Charlie Chan film series.
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C.
Joseph W. Young
Joseph W. Young was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating and developing the planned community of Hollywood, Florida, in the early 20th century.
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D.
Sessue Hayakawa
Sessue Hayakawa was a pioneering Japanese-born actor and early Hollywood star, renowned for his charismatic screen presence and one of the first Asian actors to achieve leading-man status in American and European cinema.
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E.
Paul Powell
Paul Powell was an American film director active during the silent era, known for helming several popular features in the 1910s and 1920s.
- 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_69ad85b2fed48190948c8765e453d270 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adbb580d4c819080bcc0bccd1e18e2 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:09 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b36812e3a08190abe8db8d3429a49e |
completed | March 13, 2026, 1:27 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:17 p.m.