Triple

T2693248
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William English Walling E58451 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object William H. Walling
William H. Walling was the father of American labor reformer and socialist activist William English Walling.
E691655 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: William H. Walling | Statement: [William English Walling, father, William H. Walling]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William H. Walling
Context triple: [William English Walling, father, William H. Walling]
  • A. Edwin T. Meredith
    Edwin T. Meredith was an American publisher and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
  • B. Henry E. Brady
    Henry E. Brady is an American political scientist known for his influential work on political behavior, methodology, and democratic participation.
  • C. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • D. Edward B. Burling
    Edward B. Burling was an American lawyer and prominent Washington, D.C. legal figure best known as a co-founder of the influential law firm Covington & Burling.
  • E. Ferdinand L. Barnett
    Ferdinand L. Barnett was an African American lawyer, journalist, and civil rights activist in Chicago who founded the influential black newspaper The Conservator and worked prominently for racial justice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: William H. Walling
Triple: [William English Walling, father, William H. Walling]
Generated description
William H. Walling was the father of American labor reformer and socialist activist William English Walling.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William H. Walling
Target entity description: William H. Walling was the father of American labor reformer and socialist activist William English Walling.
  • A. Edwin T. Meredith
    Edwin T. Meredith was an American publisher and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
  • B. Henry E. Brady
    Henry E. Brady is an American political scientist known for his influential work on political behavior, methodology, and democratic participation.
  • C. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • D. Edward B. Burling
    Edward B. Burling was an American lawyer and prominent Washington, D.C. legal figure best known as a co-founder of the influential law firm Covington & Burling.
  • E. Ferdinand L. Barnett
    Ferdinand L. Barnett was an African American lawyer, journalist, and civil rights activist in Chicago who founded the influential black newspaper The Conservator and worked prominently for racial justice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69ab4ac269e481909cb317d79e68b75b completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abda0f43b08190a5abd936b14603b7 completed March 7, 2026, 7:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c99ba1bbdc81909269ac0a97caa91d completed March 29, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c99f9d6d988190b69500ae0a1b6f6c completed March 29, 2026, 9:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c9a057f37c8190837e56f60b1edb2e completed March 29, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:54 p.m.