Triple

T20702013
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Christopher McCandless E508806 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Walt McCandless — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Walt McCandless | Statement: [Christopher McCandless, father, Walt McCandless]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Walt McCandless
Context triple: [Christopher McCandless, father, Walt McCandless]
  • A. Christopher McCandless
    Christopher McCandless was an American wanderer and idealist who abandoned his conventional life to travel across North America and ultimately live in the Alaskan wilderness, a journey later chronicled in the book and film "Into the Wild."
  • B. Everett Ruess
    Everett Ruess was a young American artist, writer, and wanderer who disappeared in the 1930s while exploring the remote deserts of the American Southwest, becoming a lasting figure of wilderness legend and mystery.
  • C. Robert McClory
    Robert McClory was an American Republican congressman from Illinois known for his work on civil rights legislation and service on high-profile investigative committees in the 1970s.
  • D. Carine McCandless
    Carine McCandless is an American author and speaker best known for her memoir "The Wild Truth," which offers an intimate perspective on the life and family background of her brother Christopher McCandless of "Into the Wild" fame.
  • E. Aron Ralston
    Aron Ralston is an American outdoorsman, engineer, and motivational speaker best known for surviving a canyoneering accident by amputating his own arm, an ordeal he recounted in his memoir that inspired the film "127 Hours."
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Walt McCandless
Target entity description: Walt McCandless is an American aerospace engineer best known as the father of Christopher McCandless, whose life and death were chronicled in the book and film "Into the Wild."
  • A. Christopher McCandless
    Christopher McCandless was an American wanderer and idealist who abandoned his conventional life to travel across North America and ultimately live in the Alaskan wilderness, a journey later chronicled in the book and film "Into the Wild."
  • B. Everett Ruess
    Everett Ruess was a young American artist, writer, and wanderer who disappeared in the 1930s while exploring the remote deserts of the American Southwest, becoming a lasting figure of wilderness legend and mystery.
  • C. Robert McClory
    Robert McClory was an American Republican congressman from Illinois known for his work on civil rights legislation and service on high-profile investigative committees in the 1970s.
  • D. Carine McCandless
    Carine McCandless is an American author and speaker best known for her memoir "The Wild Truth," which offers an intimate perspective on the life and family background of her brother Christopher McCandless of "Into the Wild" fame.
  • E. Aron Ralston
    Aron Ralston is an American outdoorsman, engineer, and motivational speaker best known for surviving a canyoneering accident by amputating his own arm, an ordeal he recounted in his memoir that inspired the film "127 Hours."
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69e0b4c2b2a481909e31e9cb8f81ab55 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c18cb9cc819095d0669dca037424 completed April 21, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:12 p.m.