Triple

T12470359
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Josephine Butler E298038 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object George Butler
George Butler was a 19th-century English schoolmaster, clergyman, and headmaster of Harrow School, best known as the husband of social reformer Josephine Butler.
E999473 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: George Butler | Statement: [Josephine Butler, spouse, George Butler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Butler
Context triple: [Josephine Butler, spouse, George Butler]
  • A. George Butler
    George Butler was an American record producer and music executive best known for his work in jazz, including producing albums for prominent artists such as Wynton Marsalis.
  • B. George Butler
    George Butler was a British-American documentary filmmaker best known for co-directing the influential bodybuilding film "Pumping Iron" that helped launch Arnold Schwarzenegger’s career.
  • C. Henry Parsons
    Henry Parsons is the central character in Lawrence Wright's pandemic thriller "The End of October," portrayed as an infectious disease expert racing to contain a deadly global outbreak.
  • D. Henry Van Brunt
    Henry Van Brunt was a prominent 19th-century American architect known for his influential role in shaping civic and institutional architecture across the United States.
  • E. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • 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: George Butler
Triple: [Josephine Butler, spouse, George Butler]
Generated description
George Butler was a 19th-century English schoolmaster, clergyman, and headmaster of Harrow School, best known as the husband of social reformer Josephine Butler.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Butler
Target entity description: George Butler was a 19th-century English schoolmaster, clergyman, and headmaster of Harrow School, best known as the husband of social reformer Josephine Butler.
  • A. George Butler
    George Butler was a British-American documentary filmmaker best known for co-directing the influential bodybuilding film "Pumping Iron" that helped launch Arnold Schwarzenegger’s career.
  • B. George Butler
    George Butler was an American record producer and music executive best known for his work in jazz, including producing albums for prominent artists such as Wynton Marsalis.
  • C. Henry Parsons
    Henry Parsons is the central character in Lawrence Wright's pandemic thriller "The End of October," portrayed as an infectious disease expert racing to contain a deadly global outbreak.
  • D. Henry Van Brunt
    Henry Van Brunt was a prominent 19th-century American architect known for his influential role in shaping civic and institutional architecture across the United States.
  • E. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • 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_69d6ada270808190b1a2b2e7b02bb426 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94dba7f6c8190b272f649e0777362 completed April 10, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f67c6849d88190b33c9f50632811a8 completed May 2, 2026, 10:36 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f67d64ed3481908d434c20796866f9 completed May 2, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f67e82e35081909c4b5fad7e941610 completed May 2, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m.