Triple

T12159701
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns E289670 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Mary Harriet McNeill
Mary Harriet McNeill was a 19th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, a prominent Conservative politician and Lord Chancellor.
 E998720 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: Mary Harriet McNeill | Statement: [Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, spouse, Mary Harriet McNeill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mary Harriet McNeill
Context triple: [Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, spouse, Mary Harriet McNeill]
  • A. Mary Louise McLean
    Mary Louise McLean was the daughter of American socialite Mildred McLean Hazen, connected to a prominent Washington, D.C. family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson
    Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson is the birth name of Tipper Gore, the American social issues advocate and former Second Lady of the United States.
  • C. Mary McDougall
    Mary McDougall is known primarily as the daughter of American Revolutionary War officer and political leader Alexander McDougall.
  • D. Mabel McConnell
    Mabel McConnell was the mother of Irish politician and former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
  • E. Margaret Drinnan
    Margaret Drinnan was the wife of 19th-century Scottish golf champion Young Tom Morris.
  • 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: Mary Harriet McNeill
Triple: [Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, spouse, Mary Harriet McNeill]
Generated description
Mary Harriet McNeill was a 19th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, a prominent Conservative politician and Lord Chancellor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mary Harriet McNeill
Target entity description: Mary Harriet McNeill was a 19th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, a prominent Conservative politician and Lord Chancellor.
  • A. Mary Louise McLean
    Mary Louise McLean was the daughter of American socialite Mildred McLean Hazen, connected to a prominent Washington, D.C. family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson
    Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson is the birth name of Tipper Gore, the American social issues advocate and former Second Lady of the United States.
  • C. Mary McDougall
    Mary McDougall is known primarily as the daughter of American Revolutionary War officer and political leader Alexander McDougall.
  • D. Mabel McConnell
    Mabel McConnell was the mother of Irish politician and former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
  • E. Margaret Drinnan
    Margaret Drinnan was the wife of 19th-century Scottish golf champion Young Tom Morris.
  • 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_69d6ab4d6c00819095a9a7c35de83cfb completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d915c277e481908351bf4e664dda42 completed April 10, 2026, 3:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6717defe48190bc63b83e2c276ebc completed May 2, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6749c2ddc8190945270e6e5b210dd completed May 2, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f675c42fec8190b60751c0db88f3b6 completed May 2, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:50 p.m.