Triple

T5292096
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New Thought E119764 entity
Predicate hasKeyFigure P810 FINISHED
Object William Walker Atkinson
William Walker Atkinson was an influential early 20th-century American author and occultist whose prolific writings helped popularize New Thought, mental science, and esoteric philosophy.
 E510589 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: William Walker Atkinson | Statement: [New Thought, hasKeyFigure, William Walker Atkinson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Walker Atkinson
Context triple: [New Thought, hasKeyFigure, William Walker Atkinson]
  • A. Thomas Barlow Walker
    Thomas Barlow Walker was an American lumber baron, art collector, and philanthropist who founded the collection that became the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
  • B. Boardman Robinson
    Boardman Robinson was a Canadian-American artist, illustrator, and political cartoonist known for his powerful social and political commentary in early 20th-century publications.
  • C. William Atkinson
    William Atkinson was a prominent early 19th-century British architect known for his work on major country houses and estates.
  • D. George Crocker
    George Crocker was an American financier and railroad executive, known as the son and heir of railroad magnate Charles Crocker and for his significant philanthropic activities.
  • E. Henry Atkinson
    Henry Atkinson was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding federal forces during the Black Hawk War of 1832.
  • 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: William Walker Atkinson
Triple: [New Thought, hasKeyFigure, William Walker Atkinson]
Generated description
William Walker Atkinson was an influential early 20th-century American author and occultist whose prolific writings helped popularize New Thought, mental science, and esoteric philosophy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Walker Atkinson
Target entity description: William Walker Atkinson was an influential early 20th-century American author and occultist whose prolific writings helped popularize New Thought, mental science, and esoteric philosophy.
  • A. Thomas Barlow Walker
    Thomas Barlow Walker was an American lumber baron, art collector, and philanthropist who founded the collection that became the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
  • B. Boardman Robinson
    Boardman Robinson was a Canadian-American artist, illustrator, and political cartoonist known for his powerful social and political commentary in early 20th-century publications.
  • C. William Atkinson
    William Atkinson was a prominent early 19th-century British architect known for his work on major country houses and estates.
  • D. George Crocker
    George Crocker was an American financier and railroad executive, known as the son and heir of railroad magnate Charles Crocker and for his significant philanthropic activities.
  • E. Henry Atkinson
    Henry Atkinson was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding federal forces during the Black Hawk War of 1832.
  • 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_69bd446de5648190b313a90bd96730d2 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd84eccac481908ba3fe28c3908d1d completed March 20, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf10dfc2948190b65f5e4c9388a5cb completed March 21, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf11d5d22c819090bb78a9a5a941b6 completed March 21, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf124135f88190b4be475a4feecbad completed March 21, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:52 p.m.