Triple

T14013608
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Shadow E337149 entity
Predicate characterCreatedBy P40162 FINISHED
Object Walter B. Gibson
Walter B. Gibson was an American writer and magician best known for creating and extensively writing the pulp adventures of the crime-fighting character The Shadow.
E1073107 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 B. Gibson | Statement: [The Shadow, characterCreatedBy, Walter B. Gibson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter B. Gibson
Context triple: [The Shadow, characterCreatedBy, Walter B. Gibson]
  • A. H. C. K. Wyld
    H. C. K. Wyld was a British philologist and historical linguist known for his influential work on the history and development of the English language.
  • B. E. V. Cunningham
    E. V. Cunningham was the crime-fiction pen name of American novelist Howard Fast, under which he wrote a series of popular mystery and detective novels.
  • C. Edward E. Smith
    Edward E. Smith was an American science fiction author best known for his pioneering space opera novels, particularly the Lensman and Skylark series.
  • D. Fletcher Pratt
    Fletcher Pratt was an American science fiction and fantasy author and military historian known for his influential collaborations and imaginative speculative works in the mid-20th century.
  • E. J. G. Fletcher
    J. G. Fletcher was a writer or poet who contributed work to the influential early 20th-century Imagist poetry anthology "Des Imagistes."
  • 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 B. Gibson
Triple: [The Shadow, characterCreatedBy, Walter B. Gibson]
Generated description
Walter B. Gibson was an American writer and magician best known for creating and extensively writing the pulp adventures of the crime-fighting character The Shadow.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter B. Gibson
Target entity description: Walter B. Gibson was an American writer and magician best known for creating and extensively writing the pulp adventures of the crime-fighting character The Shadow.
  • A. H. C. K. Wyld
    H. C. K. Wyld was a British philologist and historical linguist known for his influential work on the history and development of the English language.
  • B. E. V. Cunningham
    E. V. Cunningham was the crime-fiction pen name of American novelist Howard Fast, under which he wrote a series of popular mystery and detective novels.
  • C. Edward E. Smith
    Edward E. Smith was an American science fiction author best known for his pioneering space opera novels, particularly the Lensman and Skylark series.
  • D. Fletcher Pratt
    Fletcher Pratt was an American science fiction and fantasy author and military historian known for his influential collaborations and imaginative speculative works in the mid-20th century.
  • E. J. G. Fletcher
    J. G. Fletcher was a writer or poet who contributed work to the influential early 20th-century Imagist poetry anthology "Des Imagistes."
  • 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_69d81c645c5c8190b1fd16a285a1b78a completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2f37d11481909159bdb9e1e8d38e completed April 14, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fbacaa16e88190995fd86951fb54e6 completed May 6, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fbada0a2408190b77d163aee17400e completed May 6, 2026, 9:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fbaeeeb594819087b57da166495a72 completed May 6, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:19 p.m.