Triple

T635021
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walter Bedell Smith E16604 entity
Predicate middleName P143 FINISHED
Object Bedell
Bedell is the distinctive middle name of Walter Bedell Smith, a prominent U.S. Army general and diplomat who served as Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief of staff during World War II and later as Director of Central Intelligence.
E79724 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: Bedell | Statement: [Walter Bedell Smith, middleName, Bedell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bedell
Context triple: [Walter Bedell Smith, middleName, Bedell]
  • A. Stringer Bell
    Stringer Bell is a central character in the television series "The Wire," a calculating drug kingpin who studies business and economics to run his criminal organization like a legitimate enterprise.
  • B. Gideon Pitts Jr.
    Gideon Pitts Jr. was a 19th-century American figure best known as a member of the Pitts family of Honeoye, New York, and a relative of Helen Pitts Douglass, the white abolitionist and second wife of Frederick Douglass.
  • C. Mark Batson
    Mark Batson is an American record producer, songwriter, and musician known for his work across hip-hop, R&B, and pop with artists such as Dr. Dre, Eminem, and Alicia Keys.
  • D. Sam De Grasse
    Sam De Grasse was a Canadian-born silent film actor best known for his villainous roles in early Hollywood adventure and drama films.
  • E. Bradley
    Bradley is the given first name of Brad Stevens, an American professional basketball executive and former head coach of the Boston Celtics.
  • 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: Bedell
Triple: [Walter Bedell Smith, middleName, Bedell]
Generated description
Bedell is the distinctive middle name of Walter Bedell Smith, a prominent U.S. Army general and diplomat who served as Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief of staff during World War II and later as Director of Central Intelligence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bedell
Target entity description: Bedell is the distinctive middle name of Walter Bedell Smith, a prominent U.S. Army general and diplomat who served as Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief of staff during World War II and later as Director of Central Intelligence.
  • A. Stringer Bell
    Stringer Bell is a central character in the television series "The Wire," a calculating drug kingpin who studies business and economics to run his criminal organization like a legitimate enterprise.
  • B. Gideon Pitts Jr.
    Gideon Pitts Jr. was a 19th-century American figure best known as a member of the Pitts family of Honeoye, New York, and a relative of Helen Pitts Douglass, the white abolitionist and second wife of Frederick Douglass.
  • C. Mark Batson
    Mark Batson is an American record producer, songwriter, and musician known for his work across hip-hop, R&B, and pop with artists such as Dr. Dre, Eminem, and Alicia Keys.
  • D. Sam De Grasse
    Sam De Grasse was a Canadian-born silent film actor best known for his villainous roles in early Hollywood adventure and drama films.
  • E. Bradley
    Bradley is the given first name of Brad Stevens, an American professional basketball executive and former head coach of the Boston Celtics.
  • 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_69a4936be1c88190af56540324b57da7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49ee4ee8481908ad45405e3f3835c completed March 1, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a56ef25ffc81908517310fe0c84a68 completed March 2, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a56f5668108190910db85f3beb5eed completed March 2, 2026, 11:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5733acb188190b4cdd12ed3a96860 completed March 2, 2026, 11:23 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.