Triple

T12136553
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Hamilton E289071 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Catherine Barlow
Catherine Barlow was the wife of Scottish chemist and geologist William Hamilton, known primarily through her marriage into his prominent scientific and social circle.
E994973 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: Catherine Barlow | Statement: [William Hamilton, spouse, Catherine Barlow]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catherine Barlow
Context triple: [William Hamilton, spouse, Catherine Barlow]
  • A. Catherine Hill
    Catherine Hill is a steep, cobbled street in the Somerset town of Frome, known for its independent shops, historic buildings, and role as a focal point of the town’s artisan quarter.
  • B. Catherine Brooke
    Catherine Brooke was the wife of British Admiral Sir Edward Hawke, a prominent 18th-century Royal Navy officer and First Lord of the Admiralty.
  • C. Catherine Shepherd
    Catherine Shepherd is a woman known as the mother of Elijah Carlile.
  • D. Catherine Shepherd
    Catherine Shepherd is a British former actress and charity worker best known as the wife of American singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile.
  • E. Catherine Rowley
    Catherine Rowley was an English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, and thus connected to one of Britain’s most prominent aristocratic and military families.
  • 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: Catherine Barlow
Triple: [William Hamilton, spouse, Catherine Barlow]
Generated description
Catherine Barlow was the wife of Scottish chemist and geologist William Hamilton, known primarily through her marriage into his prominent scientific and social circle.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catherine Barlow
Target entity description: Catherine Barlow was the wife of Scottish chemist and geologist William Hamilton, known primarily through her marriage into his prominent scientific and social circle.
  • A. Catherine Hill
    Catherine Hill is a steep, cobbled street in the Somerset town of Frome, known for its independent shops, historic buildings, and role as a focal point of the town’s artisan quarter.
  • B. Catherine Brooke
    Catherine Brooke was the wife of British Admiral Sir Edward Hawke, a prominent 18th-century Royal Navy officer and First Lord of the Admiralty.
  • C. Catherine Shepherd
    Catherine Shepherd is a woman known as the mother of Elijah Carlile.
  • D. Catherine Shepherd
    Catherine Shepherd is a British former actress and charity worker best known as the wife of American singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile.
  • E. Catherine Rowley
    Catherine Rowley was an English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, and thus connected to one of Britain’s most prominent aristocratic and military families.
  • 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_69d6ab4b5e4c81909950b17151eb0951 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9158dd00c819082651891898b91bb completed April 10, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6684d33888190ba68425685d515ac completed May 2, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f669527fe881909baeb84ccff506c8 completed May 2, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f669fbb9f88190b0f5cc5bb758d132 completed May 2, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:49 p.m.