Triple

T12401801
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cordelia Scaife May E296272 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Herbert A. May
Herbert A. May was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the husband of heiress and philanthropist Cordelia Scaife May.
 E1433901 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: Herbert A. May | Statement: [Cordelia Scaife May, spouse, Herbert A. May]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Herbert A. May
Context triple: [Cordelia Scaife May, spouse, Herbert A. May]
  • A. Herbert A. May
    Herbert A. May was an American businessman and social figure best known as one of the husbands of heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post.
  • B. Herbert L. Anderson
    Herbert L. Anderson was an American experimental physicist who played a crucial role in the development of the first nuclear chain reaction and early atomic research during the Manhattan Project.
  • C. Herbert M. Dawley
    Herbert M. Dawley was an early 20th-century American filmmaker and special effects pioneer known for his work on prehistoric-themed fantasy films.
  • D. Herbert F. York
    Herbert F. York was an American physicist and arms control advocate who became the first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a prominent advisor on nuclear policy and disarmament.
  • E. Henry G. Blasdel
    Henry G. Blasdel was an American politician who became the first governor of the U.S. state of Nevada after its admission to the Union.
  • 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: Herbert A. May
Triple: [Cordelia Scaife May, spouse, Herbert A. May]
Generated description
Herbert A. May was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the husband of heiress and philanthropist Cordelia Scaife May.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Herbert A. May
Target entity description: Herbert A. May was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the husband of heiress and philanthropist Cordelia Scaife May.
  • A. Herbert A. May
    Herbert A. May was an American businessman and social figure best known as one of the husbands of heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post.
  • B. Herbert L. Anderson
    Herbert L. Anderson was an American experimental physicist who played a crucial role in the development of the first nuclear chain reaction and early atomic research during the Manhattan Project.
  • C. Herbert M. Dawley
    Herbert M. Dawley was an early 20th-century American filmmaker and special effects pioneer known for his work on prehistoric-themed fantasy films.
  • D. Herbert F. York
    Herbert F. York was an American physicist and arms control advocate who became the first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a prominent advisor on nuclear policy and disarmament.
  • E. Henry G. Blasdel
    Henry G. Blasdel was an American politician who became the first governor of the U.S. state of Nevada after its admission to the Union.
  • 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_69d6ad9f464c81909db36d7e96e34b9e completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94d477004819095e65ef6f70c69d9 completed April 10, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a089397a0d4819095255de6c8fb142b completed May 16, 2026, 3:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0894a4a1208190bb052d589a8c8b53 completed May 16, 2026, 4 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a089592af8c8190a2fb50cd1030687a completed May 16, 2026, 4:04 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:55 p.m.