Triple

T9923490
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cypress Lawn Memorial Park E187859 entity
Predicate hasNotableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object George A. Whittell III
George A. Whittell III was an American heir and philanthropist best known for his vast landholdings around Lake Tahoe and his efforts to preserve the area’s natural environment.
 E832665 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: George A. Whittell III | Statement: [Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, hasNotableBurial, George A. Whittell III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: George A. Whittell III
Context triple: [Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, hasNotableBurial, George A. Whittell III]
  • A. George A. Whittell Sr.
    George A. Whittell Sr. was an American businessman and investor known primarily as the father of George Whittell Jr., the reclusive millionaire who preserved much of Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shoreline.
  • B. Walter B. Pitkin Jr.
    Walter B. Pitkin Jr. was an American publisher and editor best known as a co-founder of the mass-market paperback pioneer Bantam Books.
  • C. Robert Pittack
    Robert Pittack was a television cinematographer best known for his work on classic episodes of the original The Twilight Zone series.
  • D. John H. Skeen Jr.
    John H. Skeen Jr. was an American attorney best known for serving as defense counsel in the World War II-era court-martial of General Minoru “Ben” Homma.
  • E. James K. Boyce
    James K. Boyce is an American economist known for his work on environmental economics, inequality, and the political economy of development.
  • 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: George A. Whittell III
Triple: [Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, hasNotableBurial, George A. Whittell III]
Generated description
George A. Whittell III was an American heir and philanthropist best known for his vast landholdings around Lake Tahoe and his efforts to preserve the area’s natural environment.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: George A. Whittell III
Target entity description: George A. Whittell III was an American heir and philanthropist best known for his vast landholdings around Lake Tahoe and his efforts to preserve the area’s natural environment.
  • A. George A. Whittell Sr.
    George A. Whittell Sr. was an American businessman and investor known primarily as the father of George Whittell Jr., the reclusive millionaire who preserved much of Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shoreline.
  • B. Walter B. Pitkin Jr.
    Walter B. Pitkin Jr. was an American publisher and editor best known as a co-founder of the mass-market paperback pioneer Bantam Books.
  • C. Robert Pittack
    Robert Pittack was a television cinematographer best known for his work on classic episodes of the original The Twilight Zone series.
  • D. John H. Skeen Jr.
    John H. Skeen Jr. was an American attorney best known for serving as defense counsel in the World War II-era court-martial of General Minoru “Ben” Homma.
  • E. James K. Boyce
    James K. Boyce is an American economist known for his work on environmental economics, inequality, and the political economy of development.
  • 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_69ca82b22a688190b52c75bd48429c10 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb59733188190900426e4e29ae5e3 completed April 2, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d23d2e676c81909e4eed258ecdf053 completed April 5, 2026, 10:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d24135c0b88190ad018858b99e0bde completed April 5, 2026, 11:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d241ca07b481908a2852ed15ed5cf2 completed April 5, 2026, 11:04 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:42 p.m.