Triple
T1279689
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Bill Walton |
E27295
|
entity |
| Predicate | familyName |
P18
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Walton
Walton is a surname most prominently associated with Bill Walton, the Hall of Fame American basketball player and sportscaster.
|
E147739
|
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: Walton | Statement: [Bill Walton, familyName, Walton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walton Context triple: [Bill Walton, familyName, Walton]
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A.
Walton and Maberly
Walton and Maberly was a 19th-century London-based publishing firm known for producing scholarly and scientific works.
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B.
Blackwood
Blackwood is a town in south Wales known for its coal-mining heritage and location in the Sirhowy Valley.
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C.
Gowland
Gowland is the middle name of Frederick Gowland Hopkins, the English biochemist and Nobel laureate known for his work on vitamins and essential nutrients.
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D.
Wainwright
Wainwright is a surname most prominently associated with the Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright and his musical family.
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E.
Wainwright
Wainwright is a small Inupiat community and coastal village in northern Alaska, located along the Arctic Ocean.
- 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: Walton Triple: [Bill Walton, familyName, Walton]
Generated description
Walton is a surname most prominently associated with Bill Walton, the Hall of Fame American basketball player and sportscaster.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walton Target entity description: Walton is a surname most prominently associated with Bill Walton, the Hall of Fame American basketball player and sportscaster.
-
A.
Walton and Maberly
Walton and Maberly was a 19th-century London-based publishing firm known for producing scholarly and scientific works.
-
B.
Blackwood
Blackwood is a town in south Wales known for its coal-mining heritage and location in the Sirhowy Valley.
-
C.
Gowland
Gowland is the middle name of Frederick Gowland Hopkins, the English biochemist and Nobel laureate known for his work on vitamins and essential nutrients.
-
D.
Wainwright
Wainwright is a small Inupiat community and coastal village in northern Alaska, located along the Arctic Ocean.
-
E.
Wainwright
Wainwright is a surname most prominently associated with the Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright and his musical family.
- 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_69a496d3710c8190955dee8bc0dacb50 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c092eb688190bf42bbd59e4ff289 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:41 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69acacb7ee8c819084ef29881b2274cb |
completed | March 7, 2026, 10:54 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69acad20da088190a3b55a5d46e8d951 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 10:56 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69acae0392fc8190b644f4b233bbc3ff |
completed | March 7, 2026, 11 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.