Triple

T12541593
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Mutoscope Company E299850 entity
Predicate usedTechnology P98 FINISHED
Object Mutoscope
The Mutoscope is an early motion picture device that displays moving images by rapidly flipping a sequence of photographic cards viewed through a peephole.
E992606 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: Mutoscope | Statement: [American Mutoscope Company, usedTechnology, Mutoscope]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mutoscope
Context triple: [American Mutoscope Company, usedTechnology, Mutoscope]
  • A. Kinetoscope
    The Kinetoscope was an early motion picture exhibition device that allowed a single viewer to watch short films through a peephole, pioneering the commercial development of cinema in the 1890s.
  • B. Vitascope
    Vitascope was an early film projector developed in the 1890s that helped introduce projected motion pictures to large audiences in theaters.
  • C. Biograph projector
    The Biograph projector was an early motion picture projection system developed in the late 19th century, notable for its large-format film and role in pioneering commercial cinema exhibition.
  • D. Kinetograph
    The Kinetograph was an early motion picture camera developed in the late 19th century by Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Laurie Dickson to record films for viewing in the Kinetoscope.
  • E. American Mutoscope Company
    The American Mutoscope Company was an early motion picture production and exhibition company that played a pioneering role in the development of the film industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: Mutoscope
Triple: [American Mutoscope Company, usedTechnology, Mutoscope]
Generated description
The Mutoscope is an early motion picture device that displays moving images by rapidly flipping a sequence of photographic cards viewed through a peephole.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mutoscope
Target entity description: The Mutoscope is an early motion picture device that displays moving images by rapidly flipping a sequence of photographic cards viewed through a peephole.
  • A. Kinetoscope
    The Kinetoscope was an early motion picture exhibition device that allowed a single viewer to watch short films through a peephole, pioneering the commercial development of cinema in the 1890s.
  • B. Vitascope
    Vitascope was an early film projector developed in the 1890s that helped introduce projected motion pictures to large audiences in theaters.
  • C. Biograph projector
    The Biograph projector was an early motion picture projection system developed in the late 19th century, notable for its large-format film and role in pioneering commercial cinema exhibition.
  • D. Kinetograph
    The Kinetograph was an early motion picture camera developed in the late 19th century by Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Laurie Dickson to record films for viewing in the Kinetoscope.
  • E. American Mutoscope Company
    The American Mutoscope Company was an early motion picture production and exhibition company that played a pioneering role in the development of the film industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69d6ada707008190aaec1238117c9379 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9546fc620819093335988dbab3256 completed April 10, 2026, 7:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f65eb10618819092540de09997a0c5 completed May 2, 2026, 8:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f66088890c8190b67a958d7f0822a6 completed May 2, 2026, 8:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6613ce1108190851cf8491fe666c8 completed May 2, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:57 p.m.