Triple

T22560732
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mary Ellen Walton E557806 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Curtis Willard
Curtis Willard is a fictional doctor and Mary Ellen Walton’s husband on the classic American television series "The Waltons."
E1544632 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: Curtis Willard | Statement: [Mary Ellen Walton, spouse, Curtis Willard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Curtis Willard
Context triple: [Mary Ellen Walton, spouse, Curtis Willard]
  • A. Ronald Wilkerson
    Ronald Wilkerson is the birth name of Titus Andromedon, a flamboyant aspiring actor and singer from the comedy series "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."
  • B. Tim McAuliffe
    Tim McAuliffe is a Canadian television writer and producer known for his work on comedy series such as "The Office," "Last Man on Earth," and "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."
  • C. Greg Gilmore
    Greg Gilmore is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the late-1980s Seattle band Mother Love Bone, a key precursor to the grunge movement.
  • D. Laurence Luckinbill
    Laurence Luckinbill is an American actor, playwright, and director known for his work on stage, film, and television, including his role as Sybok in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier."
  • E. Charles Ewing
    Charles Ewing was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and later a federal official, known as a prominent member of the influential Ewing family.
  • 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: Curtis Willard
Triple: [Mary Ellen Walton, spouse, Curtis Willard]
Generated description
Curtis Willard is a fictional doctor and Mary Ellen Walton’s husband on the classic American television series "The Waltons."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Curtis Willard
Target entity description: Curtis Willard is a fictional doctor and Mary Ellen Walton’s husband on the classic American television series "The Waltons."
  • A. Ronald Wilkerson
    Ronald Wilkerson is the birth name of Titus Andromedon, a flamboyant aspiring actor and singer from the comedy series "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."
  • B. Tim McAuliffe
    Tim McAuliffe is a Canadian television writer and producer known for his work on comedy series such as "The Office," "Last Man on Earth," and "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."
  • C. Greg Gilmore
    Greg Gilmore is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the late-1980s Seattle band Mother Love Bone, a key precursor to the grunge movement.
  • D. Laurence Luckinbill
    Laurence Luckinbill is an American actor, playwright, and director known for his work on stage, film, and television, including his role as Sybok in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier."
  • E. Charles Ewing
    Charles Ewing was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and later a federal official, known as a prominent member of the influential Ewing family.
  • 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_69e11e59db848190b4272ecd2b690ffd completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f15fa5f4008190921095b7aff4f4e2 completed April 29, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b3d4dffd08190a506137e1bac366a completed May 18, 2026, 4:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b3f078d7c8190ac84e8bf1726115f completed May 18, 2026, 4:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b3f8d85cc8190812924d466d18735 completed May 18, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:52 p.m.