Triple

T2081347
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sam Shepard E45248 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Samuel Walker Shepard
Samuel Walker Shepard is the son of acclaimed American playwright and actor Sam Shepard and actress O-Lan Jones.
E231464 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: Samuel Walker Shepard | Statement: [Sam Shepard, child, Samuel Walker Shepard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Walker Shepard
Context triple: [Sam Shepard, child, Samuel Walker Shepard]
  • A. John Paxton
    John Paxton was an American screenwriter known for his acclaimed adaptations of literary works and his contributions to mid-20th-century Hollywood cinema.
  • B. Fred Tate
    Fred Tate is a child prodigy whose extraordinary intellectual abilities and emotional struggles are central to the drama film "Little Man Tate."
  • C. Walter Darre
    Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
  • D. James Campbell Walker
    James Campbell Walker was a 19th-century Scottish architect known for designing notable public buildings, including several Carnegie libraries.
  • E. Lud Wray
    Lud Wray was an early professional football coach and executive best known for co-founding and serving as the first head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL.
  • 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: Samuel Walker Shepard
Triple: [Sam Shepard, child, Samuel Walker Shepard]
Generated description
Samuel Walker Shepard is the son of acclaimed American playwright and actor Sam Shepard and actress O-Lan Jones.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Walker Shepard
Target entity description: Samuel Walker Shepard is the son of acclaimed American playwright and actor Sam Shepard and actress O-Lan Jones.
  • A. John Paxton
    John Paxton was an American screenwriter known for his acclaimed adaptations of literary works and his contributions to mid-20th-century Hollywood cinema.
  • B. Fred Tate
    Fred Tate is a child prodigy whose extraordinary intellectual abilities and emotional struggles are central to the drama film "Little Man Tate."
  • C. Walter Darre
    Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
  • D. James Campbell Walker
    James Campbell Walker was a 19th-century Scottish architect known for designing notable public buildings, including several Carnegie libraries.
  • E. Lud Wray
    Lud Wray was an early professional football coach and executive best known for co-founding and serving as the first head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL.
  • 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_69a8891869c88190a02643e3bb746f59 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abba35c2588190933dba882f52dd17 completed March 7, 2026, 5:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae273ad87c8190a7b1407868692202 completed March 9, 2026, 1:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae27b2c9d08190b1950abd8d41d3b3 completed March 9, 2026, 1:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae2817ce3c81908e48170760cf98ef completed March 9, 2026, 1:53 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.