Triple

T14659243
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bo Hopkins E344191 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object William Mauldin Hopkins
William Mauldin Hopkins, better known as Bo Hopkins, was an American actor recognized for his tough-guy roles in films such as "The Wild Bunch" and "American Graffiti."
E1112298 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: William Mauldin Hopkins | Statement: [Bo Hopkins, birthName, William Mauldin Hopkins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Mauldin Hopkins
Context triple: [Bo Hopkins, birthName, William Mauldin Hopkins]
  • A. William Henry Mauldin
    William Henry Mauldin was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American editorial cartoonist best known for his World War II cartoons depicting weary infantrymen and the realities of combat.
  • B. Bill Blunden
    Bill Blunden is a film editor best known for his work on various feature films, including the 1990 adaptation of "The Handmaid's Tale."
  • C. Gene Davis
    Gene Davis was an American painter best known for his vibrant vertical stripe paintings that became emblematic of the Washington Color School and post-painterly abstraction.
  • D. Gene Davis
    Gene Davis was an American actor known for his roles in 1970s and 1980s films and television, often portraying intense or offbeat characters.
  • E. Bill Mauldin
    Bill Mauldin was an American editorial cartoonist and World War II veteran best known for his gritty, satirical depictions of soldiers and postwar political commentary.
  • 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: William Mauldin Hopkins
Triple: [Bo Hopkins, birthName, William Mauldin Hopkins]
Generated description
William Mauldin Hopkins, better known as Bo Hopkins, was an American actor recognized for his tough-guy roles in films such as "The Wild Bunch" and "American Graffiti."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Mauldin Hopkins
Target entity description: William Mauldin Hopkins, better known as Bo Hopkins, was an American actor recognized for his tough-guy roles in films such as "The Wild Bunch" and "American Graffiti."
  • A. William Henry Mauldin
    William Henry Mauldin was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American editorial cartoonist best known for his World War II cartoons depicting weary infantrymen and the realities of combat.
  • B. Bill Blunden
    Bill Blunden is a film editor best known for his work on various feature films, including the 1990 adaptation of "The Handmaid's Tale."
  • C. Gene Davis
    Gene Davis was an American painter best known for his vibrant vertical stripe paintings that became emblematic of the Washington Color School and post-painterly abstraction.
  • D. Gene Davis
    Gene Davis was an American actor known for his roles in 1970s and 1980s films and television, often portraying intense or offbeat characters.
  • E. Bill Mauldin
    Bill Mauldin was an American editorial cartoonist and World War II veteran best known for his gritty, satirical depictions of soldiers and postwar political commentary.
  • 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_69d822e283fc8190a0e4c235cf880052 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb51b6a248190a44050c0e0ec2d16 completed April 14, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fdd5e01cd081909c71fdcf67c3b1f5 completed May 8, 2026, 12:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fdd65a6c24819088fb18ffcdfe6404 completed May 8, 2026, 12:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fdd6f172288190ba7097518b1a971e completed May 8, 2026, 12:28 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:27 a.m.