Triple

T7775381
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Metropolis E221377 entity
Predicate cinematographyBy P1953 FINISHED
Object Walter Ruttmann
Walter Ruttmann was a German filmmaker and pioneer of experimental and documentary cinema, best known for his influential city symphony film "Berlin: Symphony of a Great City."
 E692991 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: Walter Ruttmann | Statement: [Metropolis, cinematographyBy, Walter Ruttmann]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Walter Ruttmann
Context triple: [Metropolis, cinematographyBy, Walter Ruttmann]
  • A. Hans Werner Richter
    Hans Werner Richter was a German writer and influential literary organizer best known for initiating and leading Group 47, which helped shape postwar German literature.
  • B. Hans Richter
    Hans Richter was a pioneering German avant-garde filmmaker and artist known for his influential contributions to early abstract cinema and Dadaist art.
  • C. Otto Piene
    Otto Piene was a German artist and co-founder of the ZERO movement, known for his innovative use of light, fire, and air in kinetic and multimedia artworks.
  • D. Joseph Maria Olbrich
    Joseph Maria Olbrich was an Austrian architect and key figure of the Vienna Secession movement, best known for designing the iconic Secession Building in Vienna.
  • E. Andreas Feininger
    Andreas Feininger was a renowned American photographer and photojournalist, celebrated for his striking black-and-white images of New York City and his influential books on photographic technique.
  • 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: Walter Ruttmann
Triple: [Metropolis, cinematographyBy, Walter Ruttmann]
Generated description
Walter Ruttmann was a German filmmaker and pioneer of experimental and documentary cinema, best known for his influential city symphony film "Berlin: Symphony of a Great City."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Walter Ruttmann
Target entity description: Walter Ruttmann was a German filmmaker and pioneer of experimental and documentary cinema, best known for his influential city symphony film "Berlin: Symphony of a Great City."
  • A. Hans Werner Richter
    Hans Werner Richter was a German writer and influential literary organizer best known for initiating and leading Group 47, which helped shape postwar German literature.
  • B. Hans Richter
    Hans Richter was a pioneering German avant-garde filmmaker and artist known for his influential contributions to early abstract cinema and Dadaist art.
  • C. Otto Piene
    Otto Piene was a German artist and co-founder of the ZERO movement, known for his innovative use of light, fire, and air in kinetic and multimedia artworks.
  • D. Joseph Maria Olbrich
    Joseph Maria Olbrich was an Austrian architect and key figure of the Vienna Secession movement, best known for designing the iconic Secession Building in Vienna.
  • E. Andreas Feininger
    Andreas Feininger was a renowned American photographer and photojournalist, celebrated for his striking black-and-white images of New York City and his influential books on photographic technique.
  • 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_69ca83ebbef881909ac47f789145fef7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69caa4d005808190ac14c8d716421bdb completed March 30, 2026, 4:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69caf58a86548190b870417692e4b654 completed March 30, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69caf81d934881908fa41ebd43f3b2e2 completed March 30, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69caf9f86d808190880f7bb2fc8d4fe3 completed March 30, 2026, 10:32 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 3:45 p.m.