Triple

T17392487
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Father Matt E422855 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object American actor Ralph Waite
Ralph Waite was an American actor best known for his role as family patriarch John Walton Sr. on the television series "The Waltons."
E1265900 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: American actor Ralph Waite | Statement: [Father Matt, portrayedBy, American actor Ralph Waite]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American actor Ralph Waite
Context triple: [Father Matt, portrayedBy, American actor Ralph Waite]
  • A. Willard Robertson
    Willard Robertson was an American character actor and playwright active in early 20th-century stage and film, often appearing in supporting roles in Hollywood movies.
  • B. Walter Burre
    Walter Burre was a London bookseller and publisher active in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known for issuing works by prominent English writers of the period.
  • C. Ralph Nelson
    Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
  • D. L. Guy Wilky
    L. Guy Wilky was a pioneering American cinematographer best known as the founder of the American Society of Cinematographers.
  • E. Edgar Ansel Mowrer
    Edgar Ansel Mowrer was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist and foreign correspondent renowned for his incisive reporting on European politics in the interwar and World War II eras.
  • 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: American actor Ralph Waite
Triple: [Father Matt, portrayedBy, American actor Ralph Waite]
Generated description
Ralph Waite was an American actor best known for his role as family patriarch John Walton Sr. on the television series "The Waltons."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American actor Ralph Waite
Target entity description: Ralph Waite was an American actor best known for his role as family patriarch John Walton Sr. on the television series "The Waltons."
  • A. Willard Robertson
    Willard Robertson was an American character actor and playwright active in early 20th-century stage and film, often appearing in supporting roles in Hollywood movies.
  • B. Walter Burre
    Walter Burre was a London bookseller and publisher active in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known for issuing works by prominent English writers of the period.
  • C. Ralph Nelson
    Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
  • D. L. Guy Wilky
    L. Guy Wilky was a pioneering American cinematographer best known as the founder of the American Society of Cinematographers.
  • E. Edgar Ansel Mowrer
    Edgar Ansel Mowrer was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist and foreign correspondent renowned for his incisive reporting on European politics in the interwar and World War II eras.
  • 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_69d889d710288190bf0f4762801fefae completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e43abb23888190812aad44288c90fd completed April 19, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a019fff1d6c8190a80b6168f46e34b9 completed May 11, 2026, 9:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01a0ea3d3c8190b6c14eea5de3ba5b completed May 11, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01a17c0acc8190a556b68fbcefaa76 completed May 11, 2026, 9:29 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:45 a.m.