Triple

T19718060
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject DeWitt Wallace E473531 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object William Roy DeWitt Wallace
William Roy DeWitt Wallace was an American publisher and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Reader’s Digest.
 E1391223 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: William Roy DeWitt Wallace | Statement: [DeWitt Wallace, fullName, William Roy DeWitt Wallace]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Roy DeWitt Wallace
Context triple: [DeWitt Wallace, fullName, William Roy DeWitt Wallace]
  • A. John William Wallace
    John William Wallace was a 19th-century American lawyer and court reporter best known for serving as the Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • B. Robert De Witt
    Robert De Witt is a person notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname De Witt.
  • C. John Sheldon
    John Sheldon was a colonial militia leader from Deerfield, Massachusetts, known for his role in defending the town during the 1704 Deerfield Massacre and later diplomatic missions to negotiate the release of captives.
  • D. John Wallace Riddle
    John Wallace Riddle was an American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia and later to Argentina in the early 20th century.
  • E. Bryan DeWitt
    Bryan DeWitt is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the De Witt surname.
  • 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: William Roy DeWitt Wallace
Triple: [DeWitt Wallace, fullName, William Roy DeWitt Wallace]
Generated description
William Roy DeWitt Wallace was an American publisher and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Reader’s Digest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Roy DeWitt Wallace
Target entity description: William Roy DeWitt Wallace was an American publisher and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Reader’s Digest.
  • A. John William Wallace
    John William Wallace was a 19th-century American lawyer and court reporter best known for serving as the Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • B. Robert De Witt
    Robert De Witt is a person notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname De Witt.
  • C. John Sheldon
    John Sheldon was a colonial militia leader from Deerfield, Massachusetts, known for his role in defending the town during the 1704 Deerfield Massacre and later diplomatic missions to negotiate the release of captives.
  • D. John Wallace Riddle
    John Wallace Riddle was an American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia and later to Argentina in the early 20th century.
  • E. Bryan DeWitt
    Bryan DeWitt is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the De Witt surname.
  • 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_69d8e516dd048190a0b6c93ea3e71f58 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6440ec9e881909b75c0ebefab827f completed April 20, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07aba36954819085e53a67388086ab completed May 15, 2026, 11:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07ae091db48190a68d7744860bcb0e completed May 15, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07aed8393481908f2bc48a3efc599a completed May 15, 2026, 11:40 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:46 p.m.