Triple

T1140664
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Birth of a Nation E23441 entity
Predicate stars P1956 FINISHED
Object Henry B. Walthall
Henry B. Walthall was an American stage and silent film actor best known for his leading role in D.W. Griffith’s landmark and controversial film "The Birth of a Nation."
E445637 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: Henry B. Walthall | Statement: [The Birth of a Nation, stars, Henry B. Walthall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry B. Walthall
Context triple: [The Birth of a Nation, stars, Henry B. Walthall]
  • A. Charles D. Norton
    Charles D. Norton was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
  • B. Lewis M. Rutherfurd
    Lewis M. Rutherfurd was a 19th-century American lawyer-turned-astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer known for his influential work in celestial photography and astronomical instrumentation.
  • C. William E. Hunt
    William E. Hunt was an American jurist who served as a justice on the Montana Supreme Court.
  • D. Charles S. Hamlin
    Charles S. Hamlin was an American lawyer and public official who became the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, helping to establish the early framework of U.S. central banking policy.
  • E. Albert D. Wheelon
    Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
  • 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: Henry B. Walthall
Triple: [The Birth of a Nation, stars, Henry B. Walthall]
Generated description
Henry B. Walthall was an American stage and silent film actor best known for his leading role in D.W. Griffith’s landmark and controversial film "The Birth of a Nation."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry B. Walthall
Target entity description: Henry B. Walthall was an American stage and silent film actor best known for his leading role in D.W. Griffith’s landmark and controversial film "The Birth of a Nation."
  • A. Charles D. Norton
    Charles D. Norton was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
  • B. Lewis M. Rutherfurd
    Lewis M. Rutherfurd was a 19th-century American lawyer-turned-astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer known for his influential work in celestial photography and astronomical instrumentation.
  • C. William E. Hunt
    William E. Hunt was an American jurist who served as a justice on the Montana Supreme Court.
  • D. Charles S. Hamlin
    Charles S. Hamlin was an American lawyer and public official who became the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, helping to establish the early framework of U.S. central banking policy.
  • E. Albert D. Wheelon
    Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
  • 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_69a493ef399c8190b04b9146d2314f59 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bc290ae08190afbf7e7ea2100d9e completed March 1, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bb60bff62881908ff53b9b02d9c869 completed March 19, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bb6841dd7881909e946d9965c8509c completed March 19, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bb68a42af4819089a6502187d6f22b completed March 19, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.