Triple

T19416157
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Magic Box E485720 entity
Predicate about P380 FINISHED
Object cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene
William Friese-Greene was a British inventor and early motion picture pioneer credited with significant experimental contributions to the development of cinematography in the late 19th century.
E1374934 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: cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene | Statement: [The Magic Box, about, cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene
Context triple: [The Magic Box, about, cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene]
  • A. Edwin S. Porter
    Edwin S. Porter was an early American film pioneer and director best known for his groundbreaking 1903 silent film "The Great Train Robbery."
  • B. Sir William Dickson
    Sir William Dickson was a British judge who served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was known for his significant contributions to mid-20th-century English jurisprudence.
  • C. Thomas Armat
    Thomas Armat was an American inventor and early motion picture pioneer best known for co-developing the Vitascope projector that helped popularize commercial cinema.
  • D. Émile Reynaud
    Émile Reynaud was a pioneering French inventor and animator best known for creating the praxinoscope and presenting some of the earliest animated film projections.
  • E. Auguste Lumière
    Auguste Lumière was a pioneering French inventor and filmmaker, best known along with his brother Louis for creating early motion-picture technology and hosting some of the first public film screenings.
  • 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: cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene
Triple: [The Magic Box, about, cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene]
Generated description
William Friese-Greene was a British inventor and early motion picture pioneer credited with significant experimental contributions to the development of cinematography in the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene
Target entity description: William Friese-Greene was a British inventor and early motion picture pioneer credited with significant experimental contributions to the development of cinematography in the late 19th century.
  • A. Edwin S. Porter
    Edwin S. Porter was an early American film pioneer and director best known for his groundbreaking 1903 silent film "The Great Train Robbery."
  • B. Sir William Dickson
    Sir William Dickson was a British judge who served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was known for his significant contributions to mid-20th-century English jurisprudence.
  • C. Thomas Armat
    Thomas Armat was an American inventor and early motion picture pioneer best known for co-developing the Vitascope projector that helped popularize commercial cinema.
  • D. Émile Reynaud
    Émile Reynaud was a pioneering French inventor and animator best known for creating the praxinoscope and presenting some of the earliest animated film projections.
  • E. Auguste Lumière
    Auguste Lumière was a pioneering French inventor and filmmaker, best known along with his brother Louis for creating early motion-picture technology and hosting some of the first public film screenings.
  • 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_69d8e8d688f881909c85104a62e09d8a completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e62af9c8fc81909860de10b6720207 completed April 20, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0733ce2e6081909e8baebf638747f1 completed May 15, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0734cfc2488190a488c40431a0b612 completed May 15, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0735c38b7881908489916ff2f2883e completed May 15, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:37 p.m.