Triple

T10206743
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vivian Vance E242216 entity
Predicate characterRelationship P37304 FINISHED
Object Ethel Mertz was Lucy Ricardo’s sidekick E242219 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Ethel Mertz was Lucy Ricardo’s sidekick | Statement: [Vivian Vance, characterRelationship, Ethel Mertz was Lucy Ricardo’s sidekick]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ethel Mertz was Lucy Ricardo’s sidekick
Context triple: [Vivian Vance, characterRelationship, Ethel Mertz was Lucy Ricardo’s sidekick]
  • A. Ethel Mertz chosen
    Ethel Mertz is a comedic television character known as Lucy Ricardo’s best friend and neighbor, often joining her in humorous schemes and misadventures.
  • B. Lucy Ricardo
    Lucy Ricardo is the zany, redheaded housewife and aspiring performer famously portrayed by Lucille Ball on the classic American sitcom "I Love Lucy."
  • C. Fred Mertz
    Fred Mertz is a gruff but lovable former vaudevillian and penny-pinching landlord who, alongside his wife Ethel, serves as a key comic foil and friend to Lucy and Ricky Ricardo on the classic TV sitcom "I Love Lucy."
  • D. Alice from The Honeymooners television show
    Alice from *The Honeymooners* is the sharp-witted, no-nonsense wife of Ralph Kramden, known for her sarcastic humor, moral grounding, and resilience in the face of her husband's get-rich-quick schemes.
  • E. Vivian Vance
    Vivian Vance was an American actress and comedian best known for playing Ethel Mertz, Lucy Ricardo’s neighbor and sidekick, on the classic television sitcom I Love Lucy.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d381ae26c48190985abd0e25ee5d04 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d395f774008190ae38823651e45264 completed April 6, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d6a7e63c588190b239f8bdb13a3f3c completed April 8, 2026, 7:09 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 10:54 a.m.