Triple

T18120872
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mass-Observation E433726 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Humphrey Jennings
Humphrey Jennings was a pioneering British documentary filmmaker and cultural observer, best known for his poetic World War II films and influential role in shaping modern documentary realism.
E1306746 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: Humphrey Jennings | Statement: [Mass-Observation, foundedBy, Humphrey Jennings]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Humphrey Jennings
Context triple: [Mass-Observation, foundedBy, Humphrey Jennings]
  • A. Kevin Brownlow
    Kevin Brownlow is a British film historian, documentarian, and preservationist renowned for his pioneering work on silent cinema and film restoration.
  • B. Michael Powell
    Michael Powell is an American bookseller and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores.
  • C. Michael Powell
    Michael Powell was a pioneering British film director best known for his visually inventive and psychologically rich collaborations with Emeric Pressburger, such as "The Red Shoes" and "Black Narcissus."
  • D. Basil Dearden
    Basil Dearden was a British film director known for his socially conscious dramas and thrillers in the mid-20th century, including works like "Victim" and "The League of Gentlemen."
  • E. Lindsay Anderson
    Lindsay Anderson was a British film director and critic associated with the Free Cinema movement and known for influential works such as "If...." and "O Lucky Man!".
  • 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: Humphrey Jennings
Triple: [Mass-Observation, foundedBy, Humphrey Jennings]
Generated description
Humphrey Jennings was a pioneering British documentary filmmaker and cultural observer, best known for his poetic World War II films and influential role in shaping modern documentary realism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Humphrey Jennings
Target entity description: Humphrey Jennings was a pioneering British documentary filmmaker and cultural observer, best known for his poetic World War II films and influential role in shaping modern documentary realism.
  • A. Kevin Brownlow
    Kevin Brownlow is a British film historian, documentarian, and preservationist renowned for his pioneering work on silent cinema and film restoration.
  • B. Michael Powell
    Michael Powell is an American bookseller and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores.
  • C. Michael Powell
    Michael Powell was a pioneering British film director best known for his visually inventive and psychologically rich collaborations with Emeric Pressburger, such as "The Red Shoes" and "Black Narcissus."
  • D. Basil Dearden
    Basil Dearden was a British film director known for his socially conscious dramas and thrillers in the mid-20th century, including works like "Victim" and "The League of Gentlemen."
  • E. Lindsay Anderson
    Lindsay Anderson was a British film director and critic associated with the Free Cinema movement and known for influential works such as "If...." and "O Lucky Man!".
  • 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_69d8b909e8cc81908df4cc2b8ea6d11f completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4ddea61bc8190af4b3efa2596b632 completed April 19, 2026, 1:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a037c434db081909033b922a1aa2f57 completed May 12, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a037e03d37c819093ef34d1752f6c01 completed May 12, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a037f09a0b48190942cd8a6184a68fb completed May 12, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:28 a.m.