Triple

T4584479
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Direct Cinema E101934 entity
Predicate notablePractitioner P26156 FINISHED
Object Robert Drew
Robert Drew was an influential American documentary filmmaker who pioneered the Direct Cinema movement with groundbreaking, observational films in the 1960s.
E454629 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: Robert Drew | Statement: [Direct Cinema, notablePractitioner, Robert Drew]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Drew
Context triple: [Direct Cinema, notablePractitioner, Robert Drew]
  • A. David Pilger
    David Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recorded as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though no widely recognized public information about him is available.
  • B. Joe Rosenthal
    Joe Rosenthal was an American photojournalist best known for his iconic World War II photograph of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
  • C. Louis de Rochemont
    Louis de Rochemont was an American film producer and documentarian best known for creating the newsreel series "The March of Time" and for pioneering a semi-documentary style in mid-20th-century cinema.
  • D. William Pilger
    William Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake or prominent bearer of the surname Pilger.
  • E. Robert Pilger
    Robert Pilger is a relatively obscure individual about whom no widely known public or biographical information is readily available.
  • 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: Robert Drew
Triple: [Direct Cinema, notablePractitioner, Robert Drew]
Generated description
Robert Drew was an influential American documentary filmmaker who pioneered the Direct Cinema movement with groundbreaking, observational films in the 1960s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Drew
Target entity description: Robert Drew was an influential American documentary filmmaker who pioneered the Direct Cinema movement with groundbreaking, observational films in the 1960s.
  • A. David Pilger
    David Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recorded as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though no widely recognized public information about him is available.
  • B. Joe Rosenthal
    Joe Rosenthal was an American photojournalist best known for his iconic World War II photograph of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
  • C. Louis de Rochemont
    Louis de Rochemont was an American film producer and documentarian best known for creating the newsreel series "The March of Time" and for pioneering a semi-documentary style in mid-20th-century cinema.
  • D. William Pilger
    William Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake or prominent bearer of the surname Pilger.
  • E. Robert Pilger
    Robert Pilger is a relatively obscure individual about whom no widely known public or biographical information is readily available.
  • 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_69bd43d4ce208190b53158c882b222e3 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd590411dc81909c55d1c42a4d44ef completed March 20, 2026, 2:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bde0a18c90819083953e78fc6de8db completed March 21, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bde2520f248190b746a322a3ec60bc completed March 21, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bde2aaf654819093e1cb3a533fead1 completed March 21, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:10 p.m.