Triple

T19445636
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walter Hampden E486467 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Walter Hampden Dougherty
Walter Hampden Dougherty, better known as Walter Hampden, was a prominent American stage actor and theater manager renowned for his distinguished performances in classical roles, especially Shakespearean and Victorian drama.
 E1429682 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: Walter Hampden Dougherty | Statement: [Walter Hampden, birthName, Walter Hampden Dougherty]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Walter Hampden Dougherty
Context triple: [Walter Hampden, birthName, Walter Hampden Dougherty]
  • A. William Dougherty
    William Dougherty was an American newspaper publisher best known for establishing the influential Chicago Daily News.
  • B. Ogden Bruton
    Ogden Bruton was an American pediatrician and immunologist best known for first describing X-linked agammaglobulinemia, a primary immunodeficiency disorder.
  • C. Louis D. Wilson
    Louis D. Wilson was a 19th-century North Carolina politician and military officer after whom the city of Wilson, North Carolina, is named.
  • D. Theodore A. Welton
    Theodore A. Welton was a physicist best known for co-formulating the fluctuation–dissipation theorem, a fundamental result in statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.
  • E. Effingham Wilson
    Effingham Wilson was a prominent 19th-century London publisher known for issuing works of literature, radical politics, and social reform.
  • 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: Walter Hampden Dougherty
Triple: [Walter Hampden, birthName, Walter Hampden Dougherty]
Generated description
Walter Hampden Dougherty, better known as Walter Hampden, was a prominent American stage actor and theater manager renowned for his distinguished performances in classical roles, especially Shakespearean and Victorian drama.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Walter Hampden Dougherty
Target entity description: Walter Hampden Dougherty, better known as Walter Hampden, was a prominent American stage actor and theater manager renowned for his distinguished performances in classical roles, especially Shakespearean and Victorian drama.
  • A. William Dougherty
    William Dougherty was an American newspaper publisher best known for establishing the influential Chicago Daily News.
  • B. Ogden Bruton
    Ogden Bruton was an American pediatrician and immunologist best known for first describing X-linked agammaglobulinemia, a primary immunodeficiency disorder.
  • C. Louis D. Wilson
    Louis D. Wilson was a 19th-century North Carolina politician and military officer after whom the city of Wilson, North Carolina, is named.
  • D. Theodore A. Welton
    Theodore A. Welton was a physicist best known for co-formulating the fluctuation–dissipation theorem, a fundamental result in statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.
  • E. Effingham Wilson
    Effingham Wilson was a prominent 19th-century London publisher known for issuing works of literature, radical politics, and social reform.
  • 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_69d8e8d7ad488190a3373045029b0f3b completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6338921cc819083f8f918225d78e6 completed April 20, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a087b032b788190b33a4f380792749c completed May 16, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a088014c30c8190937586dc3f23862e completed May 16, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08810e37c08190bd7e8b584204064c completed May 16, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:38 p.m.