Triple

T4207023
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Psycho E93807 entity
Predicate cinematographer P1953 FINISHED
Object John L. Russell
John L. Russell was an American cinematographer best known for his atmospheric black-and-white photography on Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller "Psycho."
 E425079 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: John L. Russell | Statement: [Psycho, cinematographer, John L. Russell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John L. Russell
Context triple: [Psycho, cinematographer, John L. Russell]
  • A. Leland Robinson
    Leland Robinson is the son of influential music producer and Sugar Hill Records co-founder Sylvia Robinson.
  • B. Christopher T. Russell
    Christopher T. Russell is a planetary scientist best known for leading NASA's Dawn mission, which explored the protoplanet Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres.
  • C. David R. Scott
    David R. Scott is an American astronaut, Air Force officer, and test pilot best known for commanding the Apollo 15 mission and becoming the seventh person to walk on the Moon.
  • D. Samuel Stehman Haldeman
    Samuel Stehman Haldeman was a 19th-century American naturalist, philologist, and academic known for his influential work in linguistics and the natural sciences.
  • E. Nicholas Sagan
    Nicholas Sagan is the son of science communicator Ann Druyan and famed astronomer Carl Sagan.
  • 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: John L. Russell
Triple: [Psycho, cinematographer, John L. Russell]
Generated description
John L. Russell was an American cinematographer best known for his atmospheric black-and-white photography on Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller "Psycho."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John L. Russell
Target entity description: John L. Russell was an American cinematographer best known for his atmospheric black-and-white photography on Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller "Psycho."
  • A. Leland Robinson
    Leland Robinson is the son of influential music producer and Sugar Hill Records co-founder Sylvia Robinson.
  • B. Christopher T. Russell
    Christopher T. Russell is a planetary scientist best known for leading NASA's Dawn mission, which explored the protoplanet Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres.
  • C. David R. Scott
    David R. Scott is an American astronaut, Air Force officer, and test pilot best known for commanding the Apollo 15 mission and becoming the seventh person to walk on the Moon.
  • D. Samuel Stehman Haldeman
    Samuel Stehman Haldeman was a 19th-century American naturalist, philologist, and academic known for his influential work in linguistics and the natural sciences.
  • E. Nicholas Sagan
    Nicholas Sagan is the son of science communicator Ann Druyan and famed astronomer Carl Sagan.
  • 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_69b3451743608190808f41d17ccf2650 completed March 12, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3480cfacc81909a2705eb4e9ce8c1 completed March 12, 2026, 11:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5a84ffb18819081fcd4b258ccfedf completed March 14, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5a8e024a081909e7ecbe969793281 completed March 14, 2026, 6:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5acefd1f881908226ff68a741552b completed March 14, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:03 p.m.