Triple

T10798348
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harlow Shapley E254768 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Martha Betz Shapley
Martha Betz Shapley was an American mathematician and astronomer known for her work on variable stars and for collaborating with her husband, prominent astronomer Harlow Shapley.
E885683 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: Martha Betz Shapley | Statement: [Harlow Shapley, spouse, Martha Betz Shapley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Martha Betz Shapley
Context triple: [Harlow Shapley, spouse, Martha Betz Shapley]
  • A. Henrietta Hill Swope
    Henrietta Hill Swope was an American astronomer known for her pioneering work on variable stars and for being one of the first women to make significant contributions to modern observational astronomy.
  • B. Frances Spatz Leighton
    Frances Spatz Leighton was an American writer best known for co-authoring memoirs and behind-the-scenes accounts of political and social life, including the book that inspired the television miniseries "Backstairs at the White House."
  • C. Lucile Salter Packard
    Lucile Salter Packard was an American philanthropist and children’s health advocate whose legacy includes the founding of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.
  • D. Winifred Reed Landis
    Winifred Reed Landis was the wife of longtime Major League Baseball commissioner and federal judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
  • E. Otelia Augspurger Compton
    Otelia Augspurger Compton was the mother of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Arthur H. Compton and a member of a prominent Midwestern academic and religious family.
  • 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: Martha Betz Shapley
Triple: [Harlow Shapley, spouse, Martha Betz Shapley]
Generated description
Martha Betz Shapley was an American mathematician and astronomer known for her work on variable stars and for collaborating with her husband, prominent astronomer Harlow Shapley.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Martha Betz Shapley
Target entity description: Martha Betz Shapley was an American mathematician and astronomer known for her work on variable stars and for collaborating with her husband, prominent astronomer Harlow Shapley.
  • A. Henrietta Hill Swope
    Henrietta Hill Swope was an American astronomer known for her pioneering work on variable stars and for being one of the first women to make significant contributions to modern observational astronomy.
  • B. Frances Spatz Leighton
    Frances Spatz Leighton was an American writer best known for co-authoring memoirs and behind-the-scenes accounts of political and social life, including the book that inspired the television miniseries "Backstairs at the White House."
  • C. Lucile Salter Packard
    Lucile Salter Packard was an American philanthropist and children’s health advocate whose legacy includes the founding of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.
  • D. Winifred Reed Landis
    Winifred Reed Landis was the wife of longtime Major League Baseball commissioner and federal judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
  • E. Otelia Augspurger Compton
    Otelia Augspurger Compton was the mother of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Arthur H. Compton and a member of a prominent Midwestern academic and religious family.
  • 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_69d6aa61c15c8190a1839550c56e75e1 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d73334feb08190aae967eaa37659f7 completed April 9, 2026, 5:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69de566352608190ab15e3a4b690c9a5 completed April 14, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69de5eae7ab88190a0c512cfe61e3458 completed April 14, 2026, 3:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69de60907e1081908405b6d71adbd388 completed April 14, 2026, 3:43 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:17 p.m.