Triple
T20702013
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Christopher McCandless |
E508806
|
entity |
| Predicate | father |
P120
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Walt McCandless
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."
|
E1446935
|
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: 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]
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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: Walt McCandless Triple: [Christopher McCandless, father, Walt McCandless]
Generated 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."
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."
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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 (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_69e0b4c2b2a481909e31e9cb8f81ab55 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6c18cb9cc819095d0669dca037424 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 12:15 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a08e04b75348190ae0f32bf64c5c2a0 |
completed | May 16, 2026, 9:23 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a08e13ca768819084c58419e058b111 |
completed | May 16, 2026, 9:27 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a08e1e759ec8190a305662f220a1826 |
completed | May 16, 2026, 9:30 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:12 p.m.