Triple

T7072012
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Noble Johnson E164720 entity
Predicate coFounded P104 FINISHED
Object Lincoln Motion Picture Company
Lincoln Motion Picture Company was one of the first African American–owned film production companies in the United States, known for producing early silent films featuring Black casts and stories.
 E639666 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: Lincoln Motion Picture Company | Statement: [Noble Johnson, coFounded, Lincoln Motion Picture Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lincoln Motion Picture Company
Context triple: [Noble Johnson, coFounded, Lincoln Motion Picture Company]
  • A. Vitagraph Company of America
    Vitagraph Company of America was a pioneering early American film studio and production company that played a major role in the development of the silent film era.
  • B. Selig Polyscope Company
    Selig Polyscope Company was an early American motion picture studio and production company, notable as one of the pioneering firms in the silent film era.
  • C. New York Motion Picture Company
    The New York Motion Picture Company was an early 20th-century American film production company that played a key role in the development of silent cinema and slapstick comedy.
  • D. Rex Motion Picture Company
    Rex Motion Picture Company was an early 20th-century American film production company known for its role in the silent film era and its association with pioneering filmmaker Edwin S. Porter.
  • E. General Film Co.
    General Film Co. is a historical American film distribution company that played a significant role in the early motion picture industry.
  • 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: Lincoln Motion Picture Company
Triple: [Noble Johnson, coFounded, Lincoln Motion Picture Company]
Generated description
Lincoln Motion Picture Company was one of the first African American–owned film production companies in the United States, known for producing early silent films featuring Black casts and stories.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lincoln Motion Picture Company
Target entity description: Lincoln Motion Picture Company was one of the first African American–owned film production companies in the United States, known for producing early silent films featuring Black casts and stories.
  • A. Vitagraph Company of America
    Vitagraph Company of America was a pioneering early American film studio and production company that played a major role in the development of the silent film era.
  • B. Selig Polyscope Company
    Selig Polyscope Company was an early American motion picture studio and production company, notable as one of the pioneering firms in the silent film era.
  • C. New York Motion Picture Company
    The New York Motion Picture Company was an early 20th-century American film production company that played a key role in the development of silent cinema and slapstick comedy.
  • D. Rex Motion Picture Company
    Rex Motion Picture Company was an early 20th-century American film production company known for its role in the silent film era and its association with pioneering filmmaker Edwin S. Porter.
  • E. General Film Co.
    General Film Co. is a historical American film distribution company that played a significant role in the early motion picture industry.
  • 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_69c6887b96548190a8a9b3ac8adf4119 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e4c9cdbc8190b91cd3b4eef58eb6 completed March 27, 2026, 8:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7945fdafc81909c265373627af4e8 completed March 28, 2026, 8:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7950271a48190b6e0c3f307ebdc5a completed March 28, 2026, 8:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7957439b8819081fb2721bbd8b65c completed March 28, 2026, 8:46 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:39 p.m.