Triple

T8253117
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spies E193003 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Walter Spies
Walter Spies was a Russian-born German painter, musician, and ethnologist best known for his influential role in shaping modern Balinese art and culture in the early 20th century.
E722022 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 Spies | Statement: [Spies, hasNotableBearer, Walter Spies]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Spies
Context triple: [Spies, hasNotableBearer, Walter Spies]
  • A. Winold Reiss
    Winold Reiss was a German-born American artist and designer known for his vibrant modernist portraits and illustrations, particularly of African American and Native American subjects in the early 20th century.
  • B. Edward Maufe
    Edward Maufe was a prominent 20th-century British architect best known for his ecclesiastical and memorial designs, including Guildford Cathedral.
  • C. Hendrik van der Zee
    Hendrik van der Zee is a central, enigmatic figure in the 1951 romantic fantasy film "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman," embodying the cursed, immortal captain of the legendary ghost ship.
  • D. George Ault
    George Ault was an American painter known for his haunting, meticulously structured depictions of urban and rural scenes that exemplify the Precisionist style of early 20th-century art.
  • E. Cecil Cunningham
    Cecil Cunningham was an American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, comedic supporting roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • 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 Spies
Triple: [Spies, hasNotableBearer, Walter Spies]
Generated description
Walter Spies was a Russian-born German painter, musician, and ethnologist best known for his influential role in shaping modern Balinese art and culture in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Spies
Target entity description: Walter Spies was a Russian-born German painter, musician, and ethnologist best known for his influential role in shaping modern Balinese art and culture in the early 20th century.
  • A. Winold Reiss
    Winold Reiss was a German-born American artist and designer known for his vibrant modernist portraits and illustrations, particularly of African American and Native American subjects in the early 20th century.
  • B. Edward Maufe
    Edward Maufe was a prominent 20th-century British architect best known for his ecclesiastical and memorial designs, including Guildford Cathedral.
  • C. Hendrik van der Zee
    Hendrik van der Zee is a central, enigmatic figure in the 1951 romantic fantasy film "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman," embodying the cursed, immortal captain of the legendary ghost ship.
  • D. George Ault
    George Ault was an American painter known for his haunting, meticulously structured depictions of urban and rural scenes that exemplify the Precisionist style of early 20th-century art.
  • E. Cecil Cunningham
    Cecil Cunningham was an American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, comedic supporting roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • 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_69ca82dfad9c8190b8cd18fb89f50f40 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb78cbc7cc81909931440e95d6e691 completed March 31, 2026, 7:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd354a412c8190963605d177d94a17 completed April 1, 2026, 3:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd4e5e9a2c819099a65053a12c8fde completed April 1, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd507ce2a881909da6871a9f6df119 completed April 1, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:48 p.m.