Triple

T1058624
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William O. Douglas E22853 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Mercedes Hester Davidson
Mercedes Hester Davidson was the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, to whom he was married before his rise to national prominence.
E154635 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: Mercedes Hester Davidson | Statement: [William O. Douglas, spouse, Mercedes Hester Davidson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercedes Hester Davidson
Context triple: [William O. Douglas, spouse, Mercedes Hester Davidson]
  • A. Katherine Hudson
    Katherine Hudson was the wife of English explorer Henry Hudson, known primarily through historical records of his voyages and family.
  • B. Katherine Mary Dewar
    Katherine Mary Dewar was the wife of pioneering Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell and a supportive partner in his personal and scientific life.
  • C. Clarissa Luard
    Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
  • D. Mary Williams
    Mary Williams was the wife of American planter and statesman Henry Middleton, a prominent figure in colonial South Carolina.
  • E. Katherine Oppenheimer
    Katherine Oppenheimer was an American biologist and former Communist Party member best known as the politically controversial wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer during the Manhattan Project era.
  • 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: Mercedes Hester Davidson
Triple: [William O. Douglas, spouse, Mercedes Hester Davidson]
Generated description
Mercedes Hester Davidson was the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, to whom he was married before his rise to national prominence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercedes Hester Davidson
Target entity description: Mercedes Hester Davidson was the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, to whom he was married before his rise to national prominence.
  • A. Katherine Hudson
    Katherine Hudson was the wife of English explorer Henry Hudson, known primarily through historical records of his voyages and family.
  • B. Katherine Mary Dewar
    Katherine Mary Dewar was the wife of pioneering Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell and a supportive partner in his personal and scientific life.
  • C. Clarissa Luard
    Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
  • D. Mary Williams
    Mary Williams was the wife of American planter and statesman Henry Middleton, a prominent figure in colonial South Carolina.
  • E. Katherine Oppenheimer
    Katherine Oppenheimer was an American biologist and former Communist Party member best known as the politically controversial wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer during the Manhattan Project era.
  • 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_69a493dada0481909c43649f9843ea91 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b8dc9e8c819099fbb192bcf80615 completed March 1, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acc60b052c8190bacb19f0fdc8059a completed March 8, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acc6c204a88190a3171898e6e1bb91 completed March 8, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc7d8df108190bf92ca5e33987d04 completed March 8, 2026, 12:50 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.