Triple

T19631699
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New Topographics E471286 entity
Predicate includesPhotographer P12333 FINISHED
Object Henry Wessel Jr.
Henry Wessel Jr. was an American photographer known for his quietly observational black-and-white images of the American West and his influential role in the New Topographics movement.
 E1386274 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: Henry Wessel Jr. | Statement: [New Topographics, includesPhotographer, Henry Wessel Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Henry Wessel Jr.
Context triple: [New Topographics, includesPhotographer, Henry Wessel Jr.]
  • A. Marcus Gilmore
    Marcus Gilmore is an acclaimed American jazz drummer known for his innovative, polyrhythmic style and collaborations with leading contemporary jazz artists.
  • B. James Cobb
    James Cobb is a composer best known for writing the music to the song "Stormy."
  • C. James Cobb
    James Cobb is an individual known primarily in this context as the brother of Philippa Cobb.
  • D. James Cobb
    James Cobb is one of Dom Cobb’s young children in the film "Inception," appearing primarily in his father’s memories and dreams as a symbol of Cobb’s longing and guilt.
  • E. Benjamin Hopkins
    Benjamin Hopkins was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as a son of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins.
  • 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: Henry Wessel Jr.
Triple: [New Topographics, includesPhotographer, Henry Wessel Jr.]
Generated description
Henry Wessel Jr. was an American photographer known for his quietly observational black-and-white images of the American West and his influential role in the New Topographics movement.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Henry Wessel Jr.
Target entity description: Henry Wessel Jr. was an American photographer known for his quietly observational black-and-white images of the American West and his influential role in the New Topographics movement.
  • A. Marcus Gilmore
    Marcus Gilmore is an acclaimed American jazz drummer known for his innovative, polyrhythmic style and collaborations with leading contemporary jazz artists.
  • B. James Cobb
    James Cobb is a composer best known for writing the music to the song "Stormy."
  • C. James Cobb
    James Cobb is an individual known primarily in this context as the brother of Philippa Cobb.
  • D. James Cobb
    James Cobb is one of Dom Cobb’s young children in the film "Inception," appearing primarily in his father’s memories and dreams as a symbol of Cobb’s longing and guilt.
  • E. Benjamin Hopkins
    Benjamin Hopkins was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as a son of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins.
  • 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_69d8e511f28481909f4bc3ea9191e54a completed April 10, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e641036ee881909fdd8170fe4cdac9 completed April 20, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0771c3fb608190ac10cb35014f1b5a completed May 15, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07731b33f88190b34aa3f29ca530e9 completed May 15, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0773de9e90819081e45eb66ccdfcee completed May 15, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:44 p.m.