Triple

T18073051
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Karl Swenson E432480 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Karl J. Swenson
Karl J. Swenson was an American character actor known for his work in radio, film, and television, including roles in productions such as "Little House on the Prairie."
 E1430660 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: Karl J. Swenson | Statement: [Karl Swenson, alsoKnownAs, Karl J. Swenson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Karl J. Swenson
Context triple: [Karl Swenson, alsoKnownAs, Karl J. Swenson]
  • A. Richard D. Hansen
    Richard D. Hansen is an American archaeologist best known for his pioneering research on the ancient Maya civilization, particularly at the massive preclassic site of El Mirador in Guatemala.
  • B. Charles J. Kersten
    Charles J. Kersten was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Howard C. Petersen
    Howard C. Petersen was an American lawyer, government official, and banker who played a key role in U.S. economic and defense policy during and after World War II.
  • D. Jack R. Lousma
    Jack R. Lousma is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Marine Corps officer best known for serving as pilot on the Skylab 3 space station mission and later commanding the Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-3.
  • E. Robert J. Kolenkow
    Robert J. Kolenkow is a physicist and educator best known as the co-author of the influential undergraduate textbook "An Introduction to Mechanics."
  • 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: Karl J. Swenson
Triple: [Karl Swenson, alsoKnownAs, Karl J. Swenson]
Generated description
Karl J. Swenson was an American character actor known for his work in radio, film, and television, including roles in productions such as "Little House on the Prairie."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Karl J. Swenson
Target entity description: Karl J. Swenson was an American character actor known for his work in radio, film, and television, including roles in productions such as "Little House on the Prairie."
  • A. Richard D. Hansen
    Richard D. Hansen is an American archaeologist best known for his pioneering research on the ancient Maya civilization, particularly at the massive preclassic site of El Mirador in Guatemala.
  • B. Charles J. Kersten
    Charles J. Kersten was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Howard C. Petersen
    Howard C. Petersen was an American lawyer, government official, and banker who played a key role in U.S. economic and defense policy during and after World War II.
  • D. Jack R. Lousma
    Jack R. Lousma is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Marine Corps officer best known for serving as pilot on the Skylab 3 space station mission and later commanding the Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-3.
  • E. Robert J. Kolenkow
    Robert J. Kolenkow is a physicist and educator best known as the co-author of the influential undergraduate textbook "An Introduction to Mechanics."
  • 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_69d8b9070cac81909fa9473fb1c3f1c7 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4ccef022c81909be41b2c3a3ee68e completed April 19, 2026, 12:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0883db3d888190a737968796e13f79 completed May 16, 2026, 2:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0884d316148190b1fe155fc2dfbb7b completed May 16, 2026, 2:53 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a088565cbcc81909b4bbc286d272ef6 completed May 16, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:26 a.m.