Triple

T9163566
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Barlow Walker E219888 entity
Predicate knownAs P39 FINISHED
Object T. B. Walker
T. B. Walker was an American lumber baron and prominent art collector who founded the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
E795290 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: T. B. Walker | Statement: [Thomas Barlow Walker, knownAs, T. B. Walker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: T. B. Walker
Context triple: [Thomas Barlow Walker, knownAs, T. B. Walker]
  • A. Arthur C. Walker Jr.
    Arthur C. Walker Jr. was an American physicist and solar scientist known for his pioneering work in X-ray and ultraviolet imaging of the sun and for serving on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • B. Walter Walker
    Walter Walker was a British Army general who played a leading role in counterinsurgency operations, notably overseeing British and Commonwealth forces during the Borneo Confrontation in the 1960s.
  • C. Walter Walker
    Walter Walker was an American character actor active in early 20th-century stage and film, known for supporting roles in Hollywood productions.
  • D. Charles D. Walker
    Charles D. Walker is an American engineer and astronaut who became one of the first industry-sponsored payload specialists to fly on the Space Shuttle, conducting commercial microgravity research in orbit.
  • E. Rudolph Walker
    Rudolph Walker is a Trinidadian-British actor best known for his pioneering roles in British television comedies and long-running soap operas such as EastEnders.
  • 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: T. B. Walker
Triple: [Thomas Barlow Walker, knownAs, T. B. Walker]
Generated description
T. B. Walker was an American lumber baron and prominent art collector who founded the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: T. B. Walker
Target entity description: T. B. Walker was an American lumber baron and prominent art collector who founded the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
  • A. Arthur C. Walker Jr.
    Arthur C. Walker Jr. was an American physicist and solar scientist known for his pioneering work in X-ray and ultraviolet imaging of the sun and for serving on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • B. Walter Walker
    Walter Walker was a British Army general who played a leading role in counterinsurgency operations, notably overseeing British and Commonwealth forces during the Borneo Confrontation in the 1960s.
  • C. Walter Walker
    Walter Walker was an American character actor active in early 20th-century stage and film, known for supporting roles in Hollywood productions.
  • D. Charles D. Walker
    Charles D. Walker is an American engineer and astronaut who became one of the first industry-sponsored payload specialists to fly on the Space Shuttle, conducting commercial microgravity research in orbit.
  • E. Rudolph Walker
    Rudolph Walker is a Trinidadian-British actor best known for his pioneering roles in British television comedies and long-running soap operas such as EastEnders.
  • 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_69ca83e3633c81908688a9fa2306ba99 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ccaa2d6628819084ac4734650fe912 completed April 1, 2026, 5:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0f36f72bc8190bf195a78bafcd873 completed April 4, 2026, 11:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0f74ebcf881909bc72e94094f6764 completed April 4, 2026, 11:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0f7b6045c819086fbf07846bedfa2 completed April 4, 2026, 11:36 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:21 p.m.