Triple

T5349665
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Waltons E124143 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Grandpa Zebulon Walton
Grandpa Zebulon Walton is the warm, wise, and often humorous family patriarch on the classic American television series "The Waltons."
E513747 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: Grandpa Zebulon Walton | Statement: [The Waltons, mainCharacter, Grandpa Zebulon Walton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grandpa Zebulon Walton
Context triple: [The Waltons, mainCharacter, Grandpa Zebulon Walton]
  • A. Frank Gumm
    Frank Gumm was an American vaudeville performer and theater owner best known as the father of legendary entertainer Judy Garland.
  • B. Jack Smalley
    Jack Smalley is an American composer, orchestrator, and educator known for his work on numerous film and television scores and for teaching film scoring at institutions like USC.
  • C. H. W. Plainview
    H. W. Plainview is the adopted son of oilman Daniel Plainview in the film "There Will Be Blood," whose gradual estrangement from his father reflects the human cost of Daniel’s ruthless ambition.
  • D. Uncle Tom Travers
    Uncle Tom Travers is a recurring character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories, known as Bertie Wooster’s wealthy, short-tempered uncle with a passion for collecting silver.
  • E. Uncle Billy Bailey
    Uncle Billy Bailey is the absent-minded but kind-hearted uncle and business partner of George Bailey in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."
  • 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: Grandpa Zebulon Walton
Triple: [The Waltons, mainCharacter, Grandpa Zebulon Walton]
Generated description
Grandpa Zebulon Walton is the warm, wise, and often humorous family patriarch on the classic American television series "The Waltons."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grandpa Zebulon Walton
Target entity description: Grandpa Zebulon Walton is the warm, wise, and often humorous family patriarch on the classic American television series "The Waltons."
  • A. Frank Gumm
    Frank Gumm was an American vaudeville performer and theater owner best known as the father of legendary entertainer Judy Garland.
  • B. Jack Smalley
    Jack Smalley is an American composer, orchestrator, and educator known for his work on numerous film and television scores and for teaching film scoring at institutions like USC.
  • C. H. W. Plainview
    H. W. Plainview is the adopted son of oilman Daniel Plainview in the film "There Will Be Blood," whose gradual estrangement from his father reflects the human cost of Daniel’s ruthless ambition.
  • D. Uncle Tom Travers
    Uncle Tom Travers is a recurring character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories, known as Bertie Wooster’s wealthy, short-tempered uncle with a passion for collecting silver.
  • E. Uncle Billy Bailey
    Uncle Billy Bailey is the absent-minded but kind-hearted uncle and business partner of George Bailey in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."
  • 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_69bd464be27081908807b40b75c1bbae completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd860ea7088190ad7be14132927d17 completed March 20, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf21d0d4d08190a33c86553d2012fa completed March 21, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf232d7a888190878f7a3ce769dd83 completed March 21, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf23c3ad9c8190b84a31a4b8fe8fca completed March 21, 2026, 11:03 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:01 p.m.