Triple

T20396837
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject White Zombie E500227 entity
Predicate basedOnAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object William Seabrook
William Seabrook was an American journalist and travel writer best known for his sensational accounts of voodoo and the occult, which helped popularize zombie lore in Western culture.
 E1428542 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 Seabrook | Statement: [White Zombie, basedOnAuthor, William Seabrook]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Seabrook
Context triple: [White Zombie, basedOnAuthor, William Seabrook]
  • A. J. S. Redfield
    J. S. Redfield was a 19th-century American publisher known for issuing significant literary and political works, including writings by Walt Whitman.
  • B. A. E. Southon
    A. E. Southon was an author known for writing the religious work "On Eagle’s Wings."
  • C. John Vernon Lord
    John Vernon Lord is a British illustrator, author, and educator renowned for his intricate, imaginative artwork in children’s books and literary classics.
  • D. Conrad Marca-Relli
    Conrad Marca-Relli was an Italian-American Abstract Expressionist painter and collage artist associated with the New York School.
  • E. John Cairncross
    John Cairncross was a British civil servant and scholar best known as one of the Cambridge Five Soviet spies who passed classified information to the USSR during and after World War II.
  • 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 Seabrook
Triple: [White Zombie, basedOnAuthor, William Seabrook]
Generated description
William Seabrook was an American journalist and travel writer best known for his sensational accounts of voodoo and the occult, which helped popularize zombie lore in Western culture.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Seabrook
Target entity description: William Seabrook was an American journalist and travel writer best known for his sensational accounts of voodoo and the occult, which helped popularize zombie lore in Western culture.
  • A. J. S. Redfield
    J. S. Redfield was a 19th-century American publisher known for issuing significant literary and political works, including writings by Walt Whitman.
  • B. A. E. Southon
    A. E. Southon was an author known for writing the religious work "On Eagle’s Wings."
  • C. John Vernon Lord
    John Vernon Lord is a British illustrator, author, and educator renowned for his intricate, imaginative artwork in children’s books and literary classics.
  • D. Conrad Marca-Relli
    Conrad Marca-Relli was an Italian-American Abstract Expressionist painter and collage artist associated with the New York School.
  • E. John Cairncross
    John Cairncross was a British civil servant and scholar best known as one of the Cambridge Five Soviet spies who passed classified information to the USSR during and after World War II.
  • 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_69e0b4a81bec8190b69adfdc1336a015 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6798b6640819085d5b12dc35633fe completed April 20, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08762804ac81909e90e7983246cb28 completed May 16, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0877d6b364819080b5e701acea02aa completed May 16, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08787cfe6c8190881554ead3cfd248 completed May 16, 2026, 2 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:28 a.m.