Triple

T17845125
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry B. Walthall E445637 entity
Predicate portrayed P1668 FINISHED
Object Colonel Ben Cameron
Colonel Ben Cameron is a fictional Confederate officer and central character in D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation."
E1290788 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: Colonel Ben Cameron | Statement: [Henry B. Walthall, portrayed, Colonel Ben Cameron]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Ben Cameron
Context triple: [Henry B. Walthall, portrayed, Colonel Ben Cameron]
  • A. Colonel Donlin
    Colonel Donlin is a central character in the Twilight Zone episode "I Shot an Arrow into the Air," serving as the commanding officer whose leadership and decisions drive the story's moral and survival dilemmas.
  • B. Colonel Creighton
    Colonel Creighton is a British intelligence officer and scholar of Indian culture in Rudyard Kipling’s novel "Kim," serving as a key figure in the Great Game espionage network.
  • C. Colonel Sam McLaughlin
    Colonel Sam McLaughlin was a prominent Canadian industrialist and founder of the McLaughlin Motor Car Company, which became a cornerstone of General Motors of Canada.
  • D. Colonel Noel Wild
    Colonel Noel Wild was a British Army officer who played a key leadership role in the Allied deception efforts surrounding Operation Bodyguard during World War II.
  • E. Colonel McCormick
    Colonel McCormick was a powerful American newspaper publisher and longtime editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, known for his conservative political influence in the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Colonel Ben Cameron
Triple: [Henry B. Walthall, portrayed, Colonel Ben Cameron]
Generated description
Colonel Ben Cameron is a fictional Confederate officer and central character in D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Ben Cameron
Target entity description: Colonel Ben Cameron is a fictional Confederate officer and central character in D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation."
  • A. Colonel Donlin
    Colonel Donlin is a central character in the Twilight Zone episode "I Shot an Arrow into the Air," serving as the commanding officer whose leadership and decisions drive the story's moral and survival dilemmas.
  • B. Colonel Creighton
    Colonel Creighton is a British intelligence officer and scholar of Indian culture in Rudyard Kipling’s novel "Kim," serving as a key figure in the Great Game espionage network.
  • C. Colonel Sam McLaughlin
    Colonel Sam McLaughlin was a prominent Canadian industrialist and founder of the McLaughlin Motor Car Company, which became a cornerstone of General Motors of Canada.
  • D. Colonel Noel Wild
    Colonel Noel Wild was a British Army officer who played a key leadership role in the Allied deception efforts surrounding Operation Bodyguard during World War II.
  • E. Colonel McCormick
    Colonel McCormick was a powerful American newspaper publisher and longtime editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, known for his conservative political influence in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69d8b9f1a6d881909f024bc603111cdb completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e48ffa4c648190a88a4b0733493d91 completed April 19, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a030700bc908190a4c3d995a0674875 completed May 12, 2026, 10:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0307cca7888190905abe3c1c317c1a completed May 12, 2026, 10:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03084521d88190ab60f3cbdfdb0869 completed May 12, 2026, 11 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:16 a.m.