Triple

T1053568
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sheila Hancock E22751 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Alec Ross
Alec Ross was a British actor and the first husband of actress Sheila Hancock, known for his work on stage and screen before his early death from esophageal cancer.
E128373 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: Alec Ross | Statement: [Sheila Hancock, spouse, Alec Ross]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alec Ross
Context triple: [Sheila Hancock, spouse, Alec Ross]
  • A. Kai Bird
    Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
  • B. Jeff Gitelman
    Jeff Gitelman is a Grammy-nominated guitarist, songwriter, and record producer known for his work with major artists across R&B, pop, and hip-hop.
  • C. Michael V. Drake
    Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
  • D. John Seale
    John Seale is an Australian cinematographer renowned for his Academy Award–winning work on films such as "The English Patient" and his visually striking collaborations with major directors.
  • E. Kenyon Cox
    Kenyon Cox was an American painter, muralist, and art critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his classical style and influential public murals.
  • 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: Alec Ross
Triple: [Sheila Hancock, spouse, Alec Ross]
Generated description
Alec Ross was a British actor and the first husband of actress Sheila Hancock, known for his work on stage and screen before his early death from esophageal cancer.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alec Ross
Target entity description: Alec Ross was a British actor and the first husband of actress Sheila Hancock, known for his work on stage and screen before his early death from esophageal cancer.
  • A. Kai Bird
    Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
  • B. Jeff Gitelman
    Jeff Gitelman is a Grammy-nominated guitarist, songwriter, and record producer known for his work with major artists across R&B, pop, and hip-hop.
  • C. Michael V. Drake
    Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
  • D. John Seale
    John Seale is an Australian cinematographer renowned for his Academy Award–winning work on films such as "The English Patient" and his visually striking collaborations with major directors.
  • E. Kenyon Cox
    Kenyon Cox was an American painter, muralist, and art critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his classical style and influential public murals.
  • 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_69a493da02e081908c13ff5e02a0fe7a completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b8d669448190955507e2e4975b9f completed March 1, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac53864a20819081fc59e7102a6e00 completed March 7, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac546c2fa08190a220463913fe727b completed March 7, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac554c76b48190842013a07891cfe4 completed March 7, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.