Triple

T10536573
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mauldin, South Carolina E248578 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Mauldin E183591 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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 Mauldin | Statement: [Mauldin, South Carolina, namedAfter, William Mauldin]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Mauldin
Context triple: [Mauldin, South Carolina, namedAfter, William Mauldin]
  • A. William Henry Mauldin
    William Henry Mauldin was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American editorial cartoonist best known for his World War II cartoons depicting weary infantrymen and the realities of combat.
  • B. Bill Mauldin chosen
    Bill Mauldin was an American editorial cartoonist and World War II veteran best known for his gritty, satirical depictions of soldiers and postwar political commentary.
  • C. Bill Blunden
    Bill Blunden is a film editor best known for his work on various feature films, including the 1990 adaptation of "The Handmaid's Tale."
  • D. Erskine Caldwell
    Erskine Caldwell was an American author best known for his novels and short stories depicting poverty and social issues in the rural American South, including works like "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre."
  • E. Gene Davis
    Gene Davis was an American painter best known for his vibrant vertical stripe paintings that became emblematic of the Washington Color School and post-painterly abstraction.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d381c5c7448190bec34bee7ec72bac elicitation completed
NER batch_69d50a554fb4819081e9618bab051dc6 ner completed
NED1 batch_69d90e507b408190ae3538d02536ef4c ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:31 p.m.