Triple

T20415961
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film) E500712 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object H.B. Walthall
H.B. Walthall was an American stage and silent film actor best known for his prominent roles in early cinema, including D.W. Griffith’s "The Birth of a Nation."
E1428878 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: H.B. Walthall | Statement: [The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film), castMember, H.B. Walthall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: H.B. Walthall
Context triple: [The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film), castMember, H.B. Walthall]
  • A. S. R. Hadden
    S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
  • B. D. L. Coburn
    D. L. Coburn is an American playwright best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning drama "The Gin Game."
  • C. L.T. Hutton
    L.T. Hutton is an American record producer known for his work in West Coast hip hop, including collaborations with prominent artists like Snoop Dogg and 2Pac.
  • D. H. B. Warner
    H. B. Warner was an English film and stage actor best known for his portrayal of Jesus Christ in Cecil B. DeMille’s silent epic "The King of Kings" (1927).
  • E. J. C. Hawthorne
    J. C. Hawthorne was a prominent Oregon physician and mental health pioneer after whom Portland’s Hawthorne Bridge is named.
  • 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: H.B. Walthall
Triple: [The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film), castMember, H.B. Walthall]
Generated description
H.B. Walthall was an American stage and silent film actor best known for his prominent roles in early cinema, including D.W. Griffith’s "The Birth of a Nation."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: H.B. Walthall
Target entity description: H.B. Walthall was an American stage and silent film actor best known for his prominent roles in early cinema, including D.W. Griffith’s "The Birth of a Nation."
  • A. S. R. Hadden
    S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
  • B. D. L. Coburn
    D. L. Coburn is an American playwright best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning drama "The Gin Game."
  • C. L.T. Hutton
    L.T. Hutton is an American record producer known for his work in West Coast hip hop, including collaborations with prominent artists like Snoop Dogg and 2Pac.
  • D. H. B. Warner
    H. B. Warner was an English film and stage actor best known for his portrayal of Jesus Christ in Cecil B. DeMille’s silent epic "The King of Kings" (1927).
  • E. J. C. Hawthorne
    J. C. Hawthorne was a prominent Oregon physician and mental health pioneer after whom Portland’s Hawthorne Bridge is named.
  • 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_69e0b4a935588190b9446a99b37ced44 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e67a4437448190b07b6e6e3de5830f completed April 20, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a087b284bb8819090f76ec27116c619 completed May 16, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a088017be588190ab94b8180e44ebf4 completed May 16, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0880c45e1081908f439ade0c31a47e completed May 16, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:30 a.m.