Triple

T7645037
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steamboat Willie E173097 entity
Predicate soundSystemUsed P68998 FINISHED
Object Cinephone
Cinephone was an early synchronized sound-on-film system used in late-1920s animated and live-action films to reproduce recorded audio in precise sync with the picture.
E677574 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Cinephone | Statement: [Steamboat Willie, soundSystemUsed, Cinephone]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cinephone
Context triple: [Steamboat Willie, soundSystemUsed, Cinephone]
  • A. Cinesound Productions
    Cinesound Productions was a prominent Australian film production company best known for its newsreels and feature films during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • B. Cinemastar
    Cinemastar is a line of hard disk drives produced by HGST, typically designed for consumer and multimedia applications.
  • C. Linson Films
    Linson Films is a film production company founded by producer Art Linson, known for backing notable movies such as "Fight Club."
  • D. CinéArts
    CinéArts is a Cinemark-owned brand of upscale movie theaters that focuses on presenting independent, foreign, and art-house films in a premium cinema environment.
  • E. Cinema International Corporation
    Cinema International Corporation was a major international film distribution company formed by the joint venture of major Hollywood studios to handle the overseas release of their movies in the 1970s and early 1980s.
  • 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: Cinephone
Triple: [Steamboat Willie, soundSystemUsed, Cinephone]
Generated description
Cinephone was an early synchronized sound-on-film system used in late-1920s animated and live-action films to reproduce recorded audio in precise sync with the picture.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cinephone
Target entity description: Cinephone was an early synchronized sound-on-film system used in late-1920s animated and live-action films to reproduce recorded audio in precise sync with the picture.
  • A. Cinesound Productions
    Cinesound Productions was a prominent Australian film production company best known for its newsreels and feature films during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • B. Cinemastar
    Cinemastar is a line of hard disk drives produced by HGST, typically designed for consumer and multimedia applications.
  • C. Linson Films
    Linson Films is a film production company founded by producer Art Linson, known for backing notable movies such as "Fight Club."
  • D. CinéArts
    CinéArts is a Cinemark-owned brand of upscale movie theaters that focuses on presenting independent, foreign, and art-house films in a premium cinema environment.
  • E. Cinema International Corporation
    Cinema International Corporation was a major international film distribution company formed by the joint venture of major Hollywood studios to handle the overseas release of their movies in the 1970s and early 1980s.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: soundSystemUsed
Context triple: [Steamboat Willie, soundSystemUsed, Cinephone]
  • A. hasSoundSystem
    Indicates that an entity is equipped with or includes a sound system as one of its features.
  • B. hasSound
    Indicates that an entity produces, emits, or is associated with a particular sound.
  • C. soundEngine chosen
    Indicates that one entity functions as or provides the sound engine (audio processing or synthesis system) used by another entity.
  • D. soundHardware
    Indicates that an entity is associated with, uses, or provides sound-related hardware components or capabilities.
  • E. usesSoundDevice
    Indicates that one entity operates or relies on a sound-producing or sound-processing device in relation to another entity or context.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69c6995360188190968ee57b72a1627f completed March 27, 2026, 2:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6faf2aa1c8190945a691e46300ef2 completed March 27, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c870d8573481909fa6dd122cc9dbad completed March 29, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c87269a45c8190bcceddae9e744d9c completed March 29, 2026, 12:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c873708ec08190b89cbbc493e2c247 completed March 29, 2026, 12:33 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c6f4e9ef1c81909c8bff716541ac1f completed March 27, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:58 p.m.