Triple
T21849300
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Red Smith |
E539460
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Walter Wellesley Smith |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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 Wellesley Smith | Statement: [Red Smith, fullName, Walter Wellesley Smith]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Wellesley Smith Context triple: [Red Smith, fullName, Walter Wellesley Smith]
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A.
Robert Wilmot-Horton
Robert Wilmot-Horton was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and politician who served as Governor of Ceylon and played a key role in implementing liberal administrative and economic reforms in the colony.
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B.
Henry Wharton Conway
Henry Wharton Conway was an early 19th-century American politician and delegate to the U.S. Congress from the Arkansas Territory, known for his role in territorial politics and his fatal duel with Robert Crittenden.
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C.
Walter Butler
Walter Butler was a Loyalist military officer during the American Revolutionary War, notorious for leading brutal frontier raids against American settlements.
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D.
William Gooch
William Gooch was a colonial-era British administrator who served as lieutenant governor of Virginia and was influential enough that Goochland County was named in his honor.
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E.
Sir William Gerard
Sir William Gerard was a 16th-century English lawyer and statesman who played a key role in Tudor administration in Ireland.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Wellesley Smith Target entity description: Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American sportswriter renowned for his literate, witty columns and lasting influence on sports journalism.
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A.
Robert Wilmot-Horton
Robert Wilmot-Horton was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and politician who served as Governor of Ceylon and played a key role in implementing liberal administrative and economic reforms in the colony.
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B.
Henry Wharton Conway
Henry Wharton Conway was an early 19th-century American politician and delegate to the U.S. Congress from the Arkansas Territory, known for his role in territorial politics and his fatal duel with Robert Crittenden.
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C.
Walter Butler
Walter Butler was a Loyalist military officer during the American Revolutionary War, notorious for leading brutal frontier raids against American settlements.
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D.
William Gooch
William Gooch was a colonial-era British administrator who served as lieutenant governor of Virginia and was influential enough that Goochland County was named in his honor.
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E.
Sir William Gerard
Sir William Gerard was a 16th-century English lawyer and statesman who played a key role in Tudor administration in Ireland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69e0c476c3c88190a92d08ebb59a128a |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f0bd582ca48190890648fdee2a0c6e |
completed | April 28, 2026, 1:59 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:55 p.m.