Triple
T1194536
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | W. G. Snuffy Walden |
E25636
|
entity |
| Predicate | birthName |
P65
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William Garrett Walden
William Garrett Walden is an American musician and composer best known for creating the scores for numerous popular television series, including "The West Wing," "Thirtysomething," and "Friday Night Lights."
|
E153150
|
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: William Garrett Walden | Statement: [W. G. Snuffy Walden, birthName, William Garrett Walden]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Garrett Walden Context triple: [W. G. Snuffy Walden, birthName, William Garrett Walden]
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A.
Edward Waldo Emerson
Edward Waldo Emerson was an American physician, writer, and lecturer best known as the son and biographer of transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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B.
William Beecher
William Beecher was a member of the prominent 19th-century Beecher family, known for its influential religious and social reform figures in American history.
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C.
Edward Dickinson Baker
Edward Dickinson Baker was a 19th-century American politician and Union Army colonel, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln who served as a U.S. Senator from Oregon and was killed in the Civil War.
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D.
Gardiner Greene Hubbard
Gardiner Greene Hubbard was a 19th-century American lawyer, financier, and philanthropist best known as the first president of the National Geographic Society and an early backer and father-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell.
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E.
George Ripley
George Ripley was a 19th-century American transcendentalist, social reformer, and journalist best known for founding the utopian community Brook Farm and contributing to the Transcendentalist movement.
- 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: William Garrett Walden Triple: [W. G. Snuffy Walden, birthName, William Garrett Walden]
Generated description
William Garrett Walden is an American musician and composer best known for creating the scores for numerous popular television series, including "The West Wing," "Thirtysomething," and "Friday Night Lights."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Garrett Walden Target entity description: William Garrett Walden is an American musician and composer best known for creating the scores for numerous popular television series, including "The West Wing," "Thirtysomething," and "Friday Night Lights."
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A.
Edward Waldo Emerson
Edward Waldo Emerson was an American physician, writer, and lecturer best known as the son and biographer of transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-
B.
William Beecher
William Beecher was a member of the prominent 19th-century Beecher family, known for its influential religious and social reform figures in American history.
-
C.
Edward Dickinson Baker
Edward Dickinson Baker was a 19th-century American politician and Union Army colonel, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln who served as a U.S. Senator from Oregon and was killed in the Civil War.
-
D.
Gardiner Greene Hubbard
Gardiner Greene Hubbard was a 19th-century American lawyer, financier, and philanthropist best known as the first president of the National Geographic Society and an early backer and father-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell.
-
E.
George Ripley
George Ripley was a 19th-century American transcendentalist, social reformer, and journalist best known for founding the utopian community Brook Farm and contributing to the Transcendentalist movement.
- 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_69a49429f5ec8190a6a205eb0ae81e5e |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4bd78f61c8190bdba2255d35a8fe4 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:28 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69acc6185df88190bc658c948b31e606 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 12:43 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69acc6ea01188190b16a3698aeea2169 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 12:46 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69acc759809c81908c1ce0523311a7c5 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 12:48 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.