Triple

T12420352
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sybil Thorndike E296751 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Lewis Casson
Lewis Casson was a British actor and theatre director, noted for his long and influential stage career and his frequent collaborations with his wife, Dame Sybil Thorndike.
 E989030 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: Lewis Casson | Statement: [Sybil Thorndike, spouse, Lewis Casson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lewis Casson
Context triple: [Sybil Thorndike, spouse, Lewis Casson]
  • A. Richard Cassels
    Richard Cassels was an 18th-century Palladian architect who became one of Ireland’s most prominent designers of grand country houses and public buildings.
  • B. Edward Talbot
    Edward Talbot was an Anglican clergyman who became the inaugural Bishop of Southwark in the Church of England.
  • C. William Ashburner
    William Ashburner was a 19th-century American mining engineer and geologist known for his work in mineral surveying and resource assessment in the western United States.
  • D. Lewis Collins
    Lewis Collins was a British actor best known for his tough-guy roles in action films and the TV series "The Professionals."
  • E. Daniel Butterfield
    Daniel Butterfield was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, best known for composing the bugle call "Taps."
  • 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: Lewis Casson
Triple: [Sybil Thorndike, spouse, Lewis Casson]
Generated description
Lewis Casson was a British actor and theatre director, noted for his long and influential stage career and his frequent collaborations with his wife, Dame Sybil Thorndike.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lewis Casson
Target entity description: Lewis Casson was a British actor and theatre director, noted for his long and influential stage career and his frequent collaborations with his wife, Dame Sybil Thorndike.
  • A. Richard Cassels
    Richard Cassels was an 18th-century Palladian architect who became one of Ireland’s most prominent designers of grand country houses and public buildings.
  • B. Edward Talbot
    Edward Talbot was an Anglican clergyman who became the inaugural Bishop of Southwark in the Church of England.
  • C. William Ashburner
    William Ashburner was a 19th-century American mining engineer and geologist known for his work in mineral surveying and resource assessment in the western United States.
  • D. Lewis Collins
    Lewis Collins was a British actor best known for his tough-guy roles in action films and the TV series "The Professionals."
  • E. Daniel Butterfield
    Daniel Butterfield was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, best known for composing the bugle call "Taps."
  • 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_69d6ada0640c81908c061d7fb3d47786 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94d6efd748190a5d9396a343e41e1 completed April 10, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6556495208190abd2e3e5aaac57a5 completed May 2, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6566dccc0819085e059c7b0288f6c completed May 2, 2026, 7:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f657aa1bf48190a884e0dfce31e30e completed May 2, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:55 p.m.