Triple

T17845095
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry B. Walthall E445637 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Henry Brazeale Walthall
Henry Brazeale Walthall was an American stage and silent film actor best known for his role as Colonel Ben Cameron in D.W. Griffith’s landmark film "The Birth of a Nation."
E1290786 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: Henry Brazeale Walthall | Statement: [Henry B. Walthall, birthName, Henry Brazeale Walthall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Brazeale Walthall
Context triple: [Henry B. Walthall, birthName, Henry Brazeale Walthall]
  • A. Joseph Alston
    Joseph Alston was an American politician and planter who served as governor of South Carolina in the early 19th century.
  • B. Edward Giles Irvin
    Edward Giles Irvin was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the original founders of the historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi.
  • C. H. M. Woodard
    H. M. Woodard was the father of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
  • D. Tilden Campbell Sewell
    Tilden Campbell Sewell was a prominent figure associated with the University of Alabama whose contributions to the institution’s athletics led to a baseball stadium being named in his honor.
  • E. Robert Caswell
    Robert Caswell was an Australian screenwriter best known for his work on acclaimed film and television dramas, including the Oscar-nominated screenplay for "A Cry in the Dark."
  • 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: Henry Brazeale Walthall
Triple: [Henry B. Walthall, birthName, Henry Brazeale Walthall]
Generated description
Henry Brazeale Walthall was an American stage and silent film actor best known for his role as Colonel Ben Cameron in D.W. Griffith’s landmark film "The Birth of a Nation."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Brazeale Walthall
Target entity description: Henry Brazeale Walthall was an American stage and silent film actor best known for his role as Colonel Ben Cameron in D.W. Griffith’s landmark film "The Birth of a Nation."
  • A. Joseph Alston
    Joseph Alston was an American politician and planter who served as governor of South Carolina in the early 19th century.
  • B. Edward Giles Irvin
    Edward Giles Irvin was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the original founders of the historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi.
  • C. H. M. Woodard
    H. M. Woodard was the father of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
  • D. Tilden Campbell Sewell
    Tilden Campbell Sewell was a prominent figure associated with the University of Alabama whose contributions to the institution’s athletics led to a baseball stadium being named in his honor.
  • E. Robert Caswell
    Robert Caswell was an Australian screenwriter best known for his work on acclaimed film and television dramas, including the Oscar-nominated screenplay for "A Cry in the Dark."
  • 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_69d8b9f1a6d881909f024bc603111cdb completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e48ffa4c648190a88a4b0733493d91 completed April 19, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a030700bc908190a4c3d995a0674875 completed May 12, 2026, 10:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0307cca7888190905abe3c1c317c1a completed May 12, 2026, 10:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03084521d88190ab60f3cbdfdb0869 completed May 12, 2026, 11 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:16 a.m.