Triple

T10072865
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Michael Tilson Thomas E213671 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object Bessie Thomashefsky
Bessie Thomashefsky was a pioneering star of the American Yiddish theater in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E843718 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: Bessie Thomashefsky | Statement: [Michael Tilson Thomas, relative, Bessie Thomashefsky]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bessie Thomashefsky
Context triple: [Michael Tilson Thomas, relative, Bessie Thomashefsky]
  • A. Edna Babish
    Edna Babish is a recurring character on the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," known as the girls’ landlady who later marries Laverne’s father, Frank DeFazio.
  • B. Dorothy Herzka
    Dorothy Herzka is an American art professional best known as the wife and longtime partner of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, with whom she was deeply involved in the contemporary art world.
  • C. Myra Hess
    Myra Hess was a renowned English pianist celebrated for her interpretations of classical repertoire and for organizing morale-boosting lunchtime concerts in London during World War II.
  • D. Fannie Borach
    Fannie Borach, better known as Fanny Brice, was a celebrated American comedienne, singer, and actress famed for her work in the Ziegfeld Follies and as the inspiration for the musical "Funny Girl."
  • E. Lillian Roth
    Lillian Roth was an American singer and stage and screen actress known for her early success in Hollywood musicals and her later public struggle with alcoholism and recovery.
  • 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: Bessie Thomashefsky
Triple: [Michael Tilson Thomas, relative, Bessie Thomashefsky]
Generated description
Bessie Thomashefsky was a pioneering star of the American Yiddish theater in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bessie Thomashefsky
Target entity description: Bessie Thomashefsky was a pioneering star of the American Yiddish theater in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Edna Babish
    Edna Babish is a recurring character on the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," known as the girls’ landlady who later marries Laverne’s father, Frank DeFazio.
  • B. Dorothy Herzka
    Dorothy Herzka is an American art professional best known as the wife and longtime partner of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, with whom she was deeply involved in the contemporary art world.
  • C. Myra Hess
    Myra Hess was a renowned English pianist celebrated for her interpretations of classical repertoire and for organizing morale-boosting lunchtime concerts in London during World War II.
  • D. Fannie Borach
    Fannie Borach, better known as Fanny Brice, was a celebrated American comedienne, singer, and actress famed for her work in the Ziegfeld Follies and as the inspiration for the musical "Funny Girl."
  • E. Lillian Roth
    Lillian Roth was an American singer and stage and screen actress known for her early success in Hollywood musicals and her later public struggle with alcoholism and recovery.
  • 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_69ca839add308190b57d53b4ec21f2d0 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdd013c9d0819091ebe6fc399832de completed April 2, 2026, 2:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2e5755a4081909c582bf16dd285e7 completed April 5, 2026, 10:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2e6f0aa988190aa9a866afcc2a1a2 completed April 5, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2e78384f48190abb7bdd7fcadcd9a completed April 5, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:59 p.m.