Triple

T11807958
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Roberts E280796 entity
Predicate wroteAbout P2831 FINISHED
Object Everett Ruess
Everett Ruess was a young American artist, writer, and wanderer who disappeared in the 1930s while exploring the remote deserts of the American Southwest, becoming a lasting figure of wilderness legend and mystery.
E947385 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: Everett Ruess | Statement: [David Roberts, wroteAbout, Everett Ruess]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Everett Ruess
Context triple: [David Roberts, wroteAbout, Everett Ruess]
  • A. Robert McClory
    Robert McClory was an American Republican congressman from Illinois known for his work on civil rights legislation and service on high-profile investigative committees in the 1970s.
  • B. Christopher McCandless
    Christopher McCandless was an American wanderer and idealist who abandoned his conventional life to travel across North America and ultimately live in the Alaskan wilderness, a journey later chronicled in the book and film "Into the Wild."
  • C. Hermann Buhl
    Hermann Buhl was an Austrian mountaineer renowned as one of the greatest alpinists of the 20th century, noted for his bold solo ascents and pioneering high-altitude climbs in the Himalayas and Karakoram.
  • D. George Donner
    George Donner was an American pioneer and leader of the ill-fated Donner Party wagon train that became trapped in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846–1847.
  • E. Fred Beckey
    Fred Beckey was a legendary American mountaineer and prolific first-ascensionist renowned for his pioneering climbs throughout North America and his influential climbing guidebooks.
  • 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: Everett Ruess
Triple: [David Roberts, wroteAbout, Everett Ruess]
Generated description
Everett Ruess was a young American artist, writer, and wanderer who disappeared in the 1930s while exploring the remote deserts of the American Southwest, becoming a lasting figure of wilderness legend and mystery.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Everett Ruess
Target entity description: Everett Ruess was a young American artist, writer, and wanderer who disappeared in the 1930s while exploring the remote deserts of the American Southwest, becoming a lasting figure of wilderness legend and mystery.
  • A. Robert McClory
    Robert McClory was an American Republican congressman from Illinois known for his work on civil rights legislation and service on high-profile investigative committees in the 1970s.
  • B. Christopher McCandless
    Christopher McCandless was an American wanderer and idealist who abandoned his conventional life to travel across North America and ultimately live in the Alaskan wilderness, a journey later chronicled in the book and film "Into the Wild."
  • C. Hermann Buhl
    Hermann Buhl was an Austrian mountaineer renowned as one of the greatest alpinists of the 20th century, noted for his bold solo ascents and pioneering high-altitude climbs in the Himalayas and Karakoram.
  • D. George Donner
    George Donner was an American pioneer and leader of the ill-fated Donner Party wagon train that became trapped in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846–1847.
  • E. Fred Beckey
    Fred Beckey was a legendary American mountaineer and prolific first-ascensionist renowned for his pioneering climbs throughout North America and his influential climbing guidebooks.
  • 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_69d6ab26aae88190b2489efcb2a24234 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a5c93a1881909b428bf3ed55bb57 completed April 10, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f131726ab08190ae777bee3ac6df43 completed April 28, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f141b1c50c819081a8055d951a49de completed April 28, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f14fcb63208190ad1185ad66314fa9 completed April 29, 2026, 12:24 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:42 p.m.