Triple

T4848770
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room E108358 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object DeWitt Wallace
DeWitt Wallace was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Reader’s Digest.
E473531 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: DeWitt Wallace | Statement: [DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room, namedAfter, DeWitt Wallace]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: DeWitt Wallace
Context triple: [DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room, namedAfter, DeWitt Wallace]
  • A. Henry Gordon Bennett
    Henry Gordon Bennett was an Australian Army lieutenant general best known for his controversial leadership during World War II, particularly in the Malayan campaign and the fall of Singapore.
  • B. Floyd Dell
    Floyd Dell was an American writer, critic, and prominent figure in early 20th-century literary radicalism and bohemian culture.
  • C. George Merrill
    George Merrill is an American songwriter best known for co-writing Whitney Houston’s hit songs “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
  • D. H. G. Balcom
    H. G. Balcom was a structural engineer best known for his role in designing and overseeing the framework of major skyscrapers in the early 20th century, including the Empire State Building.
  • E. Frederick H. Meyer
    Frederick H. Meyer was an American architect active in the early 20th century, known for designing prominent public and commercial buildings in San Francisco.
  • 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: DeWitt Wallace
Triple: [DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room, namedAfter, DeWitt Wallace]
Generated description
DeWitt Wallace was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Reader’s Digest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: DeWitt Wallace
Target entity description: DeWitt Wallace was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Reader’s Digest.
  • A. Henry Gordon Bennett
    Henry Gordon Bennett was an Australian Army lieutenant general best known for his controversial leadership during World War II, particularly in the Malayan campaign and the fall of Singapore.
  • B. Floyd Dell
    Floyd Dell was an American writer, critic, and prominent figure in early 20th-century literary radicalism and bohemian culture.
  • C. George Merrill
    George Merrill is an American songwriter best known for co-writing Whitney Houston’s hit songs “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
  • D. H. G. Balcom
    H. G. Balcom was a structural engineer best known for his role in designing and overseeing the framework of major skyscrapers in the early 20th century, including the Empire State Building.
  • E. Frederick H. Meyer
    Frederick H. Meyer was an American architect active in the early 20th century, known for designing prominent public and commercial buildings in San Francisco.
  • 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_69bd4409b264819085ab855f3eb5381a completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d1c5594819094fe021d7717032d completed March 20, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5cdafb3481908594ae883c6e9872 completed March 21, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5d4f2f908190b305996875f1f956 completed March 21, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be5dcbb58c8190bbcf75c570720ad6 completed March 21, 2026, 8:58 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.