Triple

T13354451
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Doc Savage E318151 entity
Predicate creator P184 FINISHED
Object Henry W. Ralston
Henry W. Ralston was a publishing executive at Street & Smith who co-created and helped develop the pulp hero Doc Savage in the 1930s.
 E1103782 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 W. Ralston | Statement: [Doc Savage, creator, Henry W. Ralston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Henry W. Ralston
Context triple: [Doc Savage, creator, Henry W. Ralston]
  • A. Samuel M. Ralston
    Samuel M. Ralston was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Indiana and later as a U.S. senator in the early 20th century.
  • B. William B. Umstead
    William B. Umstead was a mid-20th-century North Carolina politician who served as both a U.S. senator and the 63rd governor of the state.
  • C. Henry J. Toombs
    Henry J. Toombs was an American architect known for designing projects associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
  • D. William B. Taliaferro
    William B. Taliaferro was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who held several important field commands in the Eastern Theater.
  • E. Benjamin F. Cheatham
    Benjamin F. Cheatham was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Army of Tennessee.
  • 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 W. Ralston
Triple: [Doc Savage, creator, Henry W. Ralston]
Generated description
Henry W. Ralston was a publishing executive at Street & Smith who co-created and helped develop the pulp hero Doc Savage in the 1930s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Henry W. Ralston
Target entity description: Henry W. Ralston was a publishing executive at Street & Smith who co-created and helped develop the pulp hero Doc Savage in the 1930s.
  • A. Samuel M. Ralston
    Samuel M. Ralston was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Indiana and later as a U.S. senator in the early 20th century.
  • B. William B. Umstead
    William B. Umstead was a mid-20th-century North Carolina politician who served as both a U.S. senator and the 63rd governor of the state.
  • C. Henry J. Toombs
    Henry J. Toombs was an American architect known for designing projects associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
  • D. William B. Taliaferro
    William B. Taliaferro was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who held several important field commands in the Eastern Theater.
  • E. Benjamin F. Cheatham
    Benjamin F. Cheatham was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Army of Tennessee.
  • 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_69d806b5a3c08190b42c267fb092f98a completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d99e8d520881908aa23c7102b72b72 completed April 11, 2026, 1:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd7a2ae47881909e0e6c23473a9e1c completed May 8, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd7b9ffa8c81909b53143b119711d9 completed May 8, 2026, 5:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd7bd58a6881908479b7608b7f1f3a completed May 8, 2026, 5:59 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:32 p.m.