Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Red Smith E539460 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Walter Wellesley Smith
Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American sportswriter renowned for his literate, witty columns and lasting influence on sports journalism.
E1505438 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: Walter Wellesley Smith | Statement: [Red Smith, fullName, Walter Wellesley Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Wellesley Smith
Context triple: [Red Smith, fullName, Walter Wellesley Smith]
  • A. Robert Wilmot-Horton
    Robert Wilmot-Horton was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and politician who served as Governor of Ceylon and played a key role in implementing liberal administrative and economic reforms in the colony.
  • B. Henry Wharton Conway
    Henry Wharton Conway was an early 19th-century American politician and delegate to the U.S. Congress from the Arkansas Territory, known for his role in territorial politics and his fatal duel with Robert Crittenden.
  • C. Walter Butler
    Walter Butler was a Loyalist military officer during the American Revolutionary War, notorious for leading brutal frontier raids against American settlements.
  • D. William Gooch
    William Gooch was a colonial-era British administrator who served as lieutenant governor of Virginia and was influential enough that Goochland County was named in his honor.
  • E. Sir William Gerard
    Sir William Gerard was a 16th-century English lawyer and statesman who played a key role in Tudor administration in Ireland.
  • 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: Walter Wellesley Smith
Triple: [Red Smith, fullName, Walter Wellesley Smith]
Generated description
Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American sportswriter renowned for his literate, witty columns and lasting influence on sports journalism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Wellesley Smith
Target entity description: Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American sportswriter renowned for his literate, witty columns and lasting influence on sports journalism.
  • A. Robert Wilmot-Horton
    Robert Wilmot-Horton was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and politician who served as Governor of Ceylon and played a key role in implementing liberal administrative and economic reforms in the colony.
  • B. Henry Wharton Conway
    Henry Wharton Conway was an early 19th-century American politician and delegate to the U.S. Congress from the Arkansas Territory, known for his role in territorial politics and his fatal duel with Robert Crittenden.
  • C. Walter Butler
    Walter Butler was a Loyalist military officer during the American Revolutionary War, notorious for leading brutal frontier raids against American settlements.
  • D. William Gooch
    William Gooch was a colonial-era British administrator who served as lieutenant governor of Virginia and was influential enough that Goochland County was named in his honor.
  • E. Sir William Gerard
    Sir William Gerard was a 16th-century English lawyer and statesman who played a key role in Tudor administration in Ireland.
  • 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_69e0c476c3c88190a92d08ebb59a128a completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f0bd582ca48190890648fdee2a0c6e completed April 28, 2026, 1:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a4bcfd92c8190a7f9f4a521c9086e completed May 17, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a4ccdd0a881908d32425b7cbb30c4 completed May 17, 2026, 11:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a4de7d07c8190a0ccb1c229e7fc5d completed May 17, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:55 p.m.