Triple

T7906597
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bill Mauldin E183591 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object William Henry Mauldin
William Henry Mauldin was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American editorial cartoonist best known for his World War II cartoons depicting weary infantrymen and the realities of combat.
E700161 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 Henry Mauldin | Statement: [Bill Mauldin, fullName, William Henry Mauldin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Mauldin
Context triple: [Bill Mauldin, fullName, William Henry Mauldin]
  • A. J. H. Ingraham
    J. H. Ingraham was a 19th-century American author and Episcopal clergyman best known for his popular biblical historical novels.
  • B. Erskine Caldwell
    Erskine Caldwell was an American author best known for his novels and short stories depicting poverty and social issues in the rural American South, including works like "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre."
  • C. W. R. Burnett
    W. R. Burnett was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his hardboiled crime fiction that inspired numerous classic Hollywood films.
  • D. Fred C. Dobbs
    Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
  • E. Bill Blunden
    Bill Blunden is a film editor best known for his work on various feature films, including the 1990 adaptation of "The Handmaid's Tale."
  • 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 Henry Mauldin
Triple: [Bill Mauldin, fullName, William Henry Mauldin]
Generated description
William Henry Mauldin was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American editorial cartoonist best known for his World War II cartoons depicting weary infantrymen and the realities of combat.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Mauldin
Target entity description: William Henry Mauldin was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American editorial cartoonist best known for his World War II cartoons depicting weary infantrymen and the realities of combat.
  • A. J. H. Ingraham
    J. H. Ingraham was a 19th-century American author and Episcopal clergyman best known for his popular biblical historical novels.
  • B. Erskine Caldwell
    Erskine Caldwell was an American author best known for his novels and short stories depicting poverty and social issues in the rural American South, including works like "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre."
  • C. W. R. Burnett
    W. R. Burnett was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his hardboiled crime fiction that inspired numerous classic Hollywood films.
  • D. Fred C. Dobbs
    Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
  • E. Bill Blunden
    Bill Blunden is a film editor best known for his work on various feature films, including the 1990 adaptation of "The Handmaid's Tale."
  • 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_69ca828dec0c81908b8f55a4dbbb53ff completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3a5871b8819087ad69c116c40091 completed March 31, 2026, 3:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb5bc9dfa88190aa5261bdf44823ab completed March 31, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb7633c5a0819089deb6e89d9acb8e completed March 31, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cbb84dc86c8190893d67ce07c51aa0 completed March 31, 2026, 12:04 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:03 p.m.