Triple

T5294144
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Society of Cinematographers E119812 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Rees
William Rees was a pioneering cinematographer and industry figure best known for helping establish the American Society of Cinematographers, a leading professional organization for directors of photography.
E510602 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: William Rees | Statement: [American Society of Cinematographers, foundedBy, William Rees]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Rees
Context triple: [American Society of Cinematographers, foundedBy, William Rees]
  • A. William Jessop
    William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
  • B. William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
  • C. William Walmsley
    William Walmsley was a British entrepreneur and co-founder of the company that evolved into the Jaguar car marque.
  • D. William Kenwright
    William Kenwright was a prominent British theatre producer and film producer, best known for his long-running West End shows and his ownership and chairmanship of Everton Football Club.
  • E. William Orlamond
    William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • 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: William Rees
Triple: [American Society of Cinematographers, foundedBy, William Rees]
Generated description
William Rees was a pioneering cinematographer and industry figure best known for helping establish the American Society of Cinematographers, a leading professional organization for directors of photography.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Rees
Target entity description: William Rees was a pioneering cinematographer and industry figure best known for helping establish the American Society of Cinematographers, a leading professional organization for directors of photography.
  • A. William Jessop
    William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
  • B. William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
  • C. William Walmsley
    William Walmsley was a British entrepreneur and co-founder of the company that evolved into the Jaguar car marque.
  • D. William Kenwright
    William Kenwright was a prominent British theatre producer and film producer, best known for his long-running West End shows and his ownership and chairmanship of Everton Football Club.
  • E. William Orlamond
    William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • 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_69bd446f22b88190b6a47fb91c68a3e7 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd84f034f081908027a43120b6e122 completed March 20, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf10dfc2948190b65f5e4c9388a5cb completed March 21, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf11d5d22c819090bb78a9a5a941b6 completed March 21, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf124135f88190b4be475a4feecbad completed March 21, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:52 p.m.