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]
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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.
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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."
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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."
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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.
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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.