Triple
T3865785
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Pat Hanrahan |
E91847
|
entity |
| Predicate | contributedTo |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | RenderMan rendering system |
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 rendering system | Statement: [Pat Hanrahan, contributedTo, RenderMan rendering system]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: RenderMan rendering system Context triple: [Pat Hanrahan, contributedTo, RenderMan rendering system]
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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.
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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C.
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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D.
Autodesk Maya
Autodesk Maya is a professional 3D computer graphics application widely used in film, television, and game development for modeling, animation, simulation, and rendering.
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E.
OpenUSD
OpenUSD is an open-source framework and file format developed by Pixar for creating, composing, and exchanging complex 3D scenes across diverse digital content creation tools and pipelines.
- 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.