Triple

T11416752
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Golden Age of American animation E270510 entity
Predicate notableFigure P4290 FINISHED
Object Walter Lantz
Walter Lantz was an American cartoonist, animator, and producer best known as the creator of Woody Woodpecker and head of Walter Lantz Productions.
E1050432 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 Lantz | Statement: [Golden Age of American animation, notableFigure, Walter Lantz]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Lantz
Context triple: [Golden Age of American animation, notableFigure, Walter Lantz]
  • A. Max Fleischer
    Max Fleischer was a 19th-century architect known for designing notable synagogues in Central Europe, including major works in what is now the Czech Republic.
  • B. Max Fleischer
    Max Fleischer was a pioneering animator and film producer best known for creating iconic cartoon characters like Betty Boop and for developing early animation technologies such as the rotoscope.
  • C. Friz Freleng
    Friz Freleng was an American animator, cartoon director, and producer best known for shaping the classic Warner Bros. cartoon characters and style during the Golden Age of animation.
  • D. Tex Avery
    Tex Avery was a pioneering American animator and director renowned for his wildly inventive, fast-paced, and irreverent cartoons that helped define the golden age of American animation.
  • E. Joseph Barbera
    Joseph Barbera was an American animator, director, and producer best known as the co-creator of iconic cartoon characters and series such as Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, and Scooby-Doo.
  • 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 Lantz
Triple: [Golden Age of American animation, notableFigure, Walter Lantz]
Generated description
Walter Lantz was an American cartoonist, animator, and producer best known as the creator of Woody Woodpecker and head of Walter Lantz Productions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Lantz
Target entity description: Walter Lantz was an American cartoonist, animator, and producer best known as the creator of Woody Woodpecker and head of Walter Lantz Productions.
  • A. Max Fleischer
    Max Fleischer was a 19th-century architect known for designing notable synagogues in Central Europe, including major works in what is now the Czech Republic.
  • B. Max Fleischer
    Max Fleischer was a pioneering animator and film producer best known for creating iconic cartoon characters like Betty Boop and for developing early animation technologies such as the rotoscope.
  • C. Friz Freleng
    Friz Freleng was an American animator, cartoon director, and producer best known for shaping the classic Warner Bros. cartoon characters and style during the Golden Age of animation.
  • D. Tex Avery
    Tex Avery was a pioneering American animator and director renowned for his wildly inventive, fast-paced, and irreverent cartoons that helped define the golden age of American animation.
  • E. Joseph Barbera
    Joseph Barbera was an American animator, director, and producer best known as the co-creator of iconic cartoon characters and series such as Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, and Scooby-Doo.
  • 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_69d6aaddeaa8819088b30ef7b50598c9 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d801b0236c81908122ce3fc7b4fde7 completed April 9, 2026, 7:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f77f6baca4819080f85da5fe0c2aba completed May 3, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f78125632881908d601ee4c4aaae35 completed May 3, 2026, 5:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f781e32cb48190abc83e65405ac8ac completed May 3, 2026, 5:12 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.