Triple
T3865759
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Pat Hanrahan |
E91847
|
entity |
| Predicate | knownFor |
P22
|
FINISHED |
| Object | RenderMan shading language |
E46404
|
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: RenderMan shading language | Statement: [Pat Hanrahan, knownFor, RenderMan shading language]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: RenderMan shading language Context triple: [Pat Hanrahan, knownFor, RenderMan shading language]
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A.
RenderMan
chosen
RenderMan is a high-quality 3D rendering software and standard widely used in the film industry for producing photorealistic visual effects and animation.
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B.
Metal Shading Language
Metal Shading Language is Apple’s C++-like GPU programming language used to write high-performance graphics and compute shaders for the Metal framework on iOS, macOS, and related platforms.
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C.
RenderMan Interface Bytestream
RenderMan Interface Bytestream is a low-level, stream-based representation of 3D scene data used by Pixar’s RenderMan system to communicate geometry, lighting, and shading information to the renderer.
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D.
NVIDIA OptiX
NVIDIA OptiX is a GPU-accelerated, programmable ray tracing engine and API from NVIDIA used to build high-performance, photorealistic rendering and simulation applications.
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E.
GLSL
GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) is a C-like programming language used to write programmable shaders for graphics pipelines in OpenGL and WebGL.
- 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_69aed9645f348190a9868e7cef56ab7e |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aeec3a253c81909df7dc0422ff7989 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 3:50 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5123e5e008190a89bb226a7de55ec |
completed | March 14, 2026, 7:46 a.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:19 p.m.