Triple

T14018247
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Emerson E337254 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Willis George Emerson
Willis George Emerson was an American lawyer, politician, and author best known for his early 20th-century adventure and speculative fiction, including the novel "The Smoky God."
E1073375 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: Willis George Emerson | Statement: [Emerson, hasNotableBearer, Willis George Emerson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willis George Emerson
Context triple: [Emerson, hasNotableBearer, Willis George Emerson]
  • 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 Emerson
    William Emerson was a prominent British architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for major public and memorial buildings in British India.
  • C. Ralph Emerson
    Ralph Emerson was an American actor active during the silent and early sound film era, known for roles in late 1920s motion pictures.
  • D. E. Allen Emerson
    E. Allen Emerson is a prominent computer scientist best known for his pioneering work in model checking and temporal logic in formal verification.
  • E. William Garrett Walden
    William Garrett Walden is an individual whose specific public background or notable achievements are not clearly identifiable from the given information.
  • 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: Willis George Emerson
Triple: [Emerson, hasNotableBearer, Willis George Emerson]
Generated description
Willis George Emerson was an American lawyer, politician, and author best known for his early 20th-century adventure and speculative fiction, including the novel "The Smoky God."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willis George Emerson
Target entity description: Willis George Emerson was an American lawyer, politician, and author best known for his early 20th-century adventure and speculative fiction, including the novel "The Smoky God."
  • 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 Emerson
    William Emerson was a prominent British architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for major public and memorial buildings in British India.
  • C. Ralph Emerson
    Ralph Emerson was an American actor active during the silent and early sound film era, known for roles in late 1920s motion pictures.
  • D. E. Allen Emerson
    E. Allen Emerson is a prominent computer scientist best known for his pioneering work in model checking and temporal logic in formal verification.
  • E. William Garrett Walden
    William Garrett Walden is an individual whose specific public background or notable achievements are not clearly identifiable from the given information.
  • 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_69d81c6543a48190bd5ba93d7419e797 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2f3b5b088190a58715779d2c46a6 completed April 14, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fbacad948c81909db7187da5a9b97d completed May 6, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fbae186bb881908ea17ae6b12825af completed May 6, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fbaebaab508190a609fa151c686a0d completed May 6, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:19 p.m.