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]
  • 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
  • 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."
  • 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.