Triple

T14843139
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Vanishing Prairie E349016 entity
Predicate cinematographyBy P1953 FINISHED
Object Walter H. Paddock
Walter H. Paddock was a cinematographer known for his work on the acclaimed nature documentary film "The Vanishing Prairie."
E1121468 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: Walter H. Paddock | Statement: [The Vanishing Prairie, cinematographyBy, Walter H. Paddock]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter H. Paddock
Context triple: [The Vanishing Prairie, cinematographyBy, Walter H. Paddock]
  • A. Gabriel Harris
    Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
  • B. Brian A. Nichols
    Brian A. Nichols is an American diplomat and career foreign service officer who serves in senior U.S. State Department leadership on Latin American and Caribbean policy.
  • C. William Holmes
    William Holmes was a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the 1941 biographical war film "Sergeant York."
  • D. Christopher Ferguson
    Christopher Ferguson is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut best known for commanding STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle program.
  • E. Aaron McKinney
    Aaron McKinney is an American man best known as one of the two assailants convicted in the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a crime that drew national attention to anti-LGBTQ+ hate violence.
  • 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: Walter H. Paddock
Triple: [The Vanishing Prairie, cinematographyBy, Walter H. Paddock]
Generated description
Walter H. Paddock was a cinematographer known for his work on the acclaimed nature documentary film "The Vanishing Prairie."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter H. Paddock
Target entity description: Walter H. Paddock was a cinematographer known for his work on the acclaimed nature documentary film "The Vanishing Prairie."
  • A. Gabriel Harris
    Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
  • B. Brian A. Nichols
    Brian A. Nichols is an American diplomat and career foreign service officer who serves in senior U.S. State Department leadership on Latin American and Caribbean policy.
  • C. William Holmes
    William Holmes was a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the 1941 biographical war film "Sergeant York."
  • D. Christopher Ferguson
    Christopher Ferguson is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut best known for commanding STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle program.
  • E. Aaron McKinney
    Aaron McKinney is an American man best known as one of the two assailants convicted in the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a crime that drew national attention to anti-LGBTQ+ hate violence.
  • 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_69d822ec69008190a9232caa68836872 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded28fa49c81908d1059e6cafd607f completed April 14, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe38ab372881909f60435e73424aea completed May 8, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe3b2bb95c819092a280384b71461d completed May 8, 2026, 7:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe3bbf7de481908cc8b65a8e737d31 completed May 8, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:53 a.m.