Triple

T20035250
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Will Geer E497238 entity
Predicate notableRole P22 FINISHED
Object Zebulon Walton
Zebulon Walton is the wise, folksy family patriarch known as "Grandpa" on the classic American television series *The Waltons*.
 E1406714 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: Zebulon Walton | Statement: [Will Geer, notableRole, Zebulon Walton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Zebulon Walton
Context triple: [Will Geer, notableRole, Zebulon Walton]
  • A. Zebulon Weaver
    Zebulon Weaver was an early 20th-century Democratic U.S. Representative from North Carolina who served multiple terms in Congress.
  • B. Nathaniel Folsom
    Nathaniel Folsom was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New Hampshire who played a key role in organizing and commanding the colony’s militia forces.
  • C. Hannibal Brooks
    Hannibal Brooks is a 1969 British war comedy film about a prisoner of war who escapes through the Alps with an elephant, directed by Michael Winner and starring Oliver Reed.
  • D. Isham Randolph
    Isham Randolph was an 18th-century Virginia planter and sea captain, best known as the grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
  • E. Asa Biggs
    Asa Biggs was a 19th-century American politician from North Carolina who served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and later a federal judge.
  • 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: Zebulon Walton
Triple: [Will Geer, notableRole, Zebulon Walton]
Generated description
Zebulon Walton is the wise, folksy family patriarch known as "Grandpa" on the classic American television series *The Waltons*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Zebulon Walton
Target entity description: Zebulon Walton is the wise, folksy family patriarch known as "Grandpa" on the classic American television series *The Waltons*.
  • A. Zebulon Weaver
    Zebulon Weaver was an early 20th-century Democratic U.S. Representative from North Carolina who served multiple terms in Congress.
  • B. Nathaniel Folsom
    Nathaniel Folsom was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New Hampshire who played a key role in organizing and commanding the colony’s militia forces.
  • C. Hannibal Brooks
    Hannibal Brooks is a 1969 British war comedy film about a prisoner of war who escapes through the Alps with an elephant, directed by Michael Winner and starring Oliver Reed.
  • D. Isham Randolph
    Isham Randolph was an 18th-century Virginia planter and sea captain, best known as the grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
  • E. Asa Biggs
    Asa Biggs was a 19th-century American politician from North Carolina who served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and later a federal judge.
  • 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_69da627278c88190babe4297a9df1236 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e662e76f8481909c006921cbbfd060 completed April 20, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a080e376d888190ae9ba908dac771b4 completed May 16, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a080ee7dfe081909bf288e7b8944a75 completed May 16, 2026, 6:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a080f517f1c81909c66b9a542fddd6b completed May 16, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:36 p.m.