Triple

T1268965
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herman Melville E15665 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Elizabeth Shaw Melville
Elizabeth Shaw Melville was the wife of American novelist Herman Melville and the daughter of Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, known for her extensive correspondence and role in preserving Melville’s literary legacy.
E147116 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: Elizabeth Shaw Melville | Statement: [Herman Melville, spouse, Elizabeth Shaw Melville]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elizabeth Shaw Melville
Context triple: [Herman Melville, spouse, Elizabeth Shaw Melville]
  • A. Horatia Nelson
    Horatia Nelson was the daughter of British naval hero Admiral Horatio Nelson and his mistress Emma, Lady Hamilton, whose birth and parentage were long the subject of secrecy and social scandal.
  • B. Elizabeth Darwin
    Elizabeth Darwin is a member of the Darwin family, likely a descendant or relative of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
  • C. Clarissa Luard
    Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
  • D. Mary Pollock
    Mary Pollock is a pseudonym used by the prolific British children's author Enid Blyton.
  • E. Katherine Mary Dewar
    Katherine Mary Dewar was the wife of pioneering Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell and a supportive partner in his personal and scientific life.
  • 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: Elizabeth Shaw Melville
Triple: [Herman Melville, spouse, Elizabeth Shaw Melville]
Generated description
Elizabeth Shaw Melville was the wife of American novelist Herman Melville and the daughter of Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, known for her extensive correspondence and role in preserving Melville’s literary legacy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elizabeth Shaw Melville
Target entity description: Elizabeth Shaw Melville was the wife of American novelist Herman Melville and the daughter of Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, known for her extensive correspondence and role in preserving Melville’s literary legacy.
  • A. Horatia Nelson
    Horatia Nelson was the daughter of British naval hero Admiral Horatio Nelson and his mistress Emma, Lady Hamilton, whose birth and parentage were long the subject of secrecy and social scandal.
  • B. Elizabeth Darwin
    Elizabeth Darwin is a member of the Darwin family, likely a descendant or relative of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
  • C. Clarissa Luard
    Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
  • D. Mary Pollock
    Mary Pollock is a pseudonym used by the prolific British children's author Enid Blyton.
  • E. Katherine Mary Dewar
    Katherine Mary Dewar was the wife of pioneering Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell and a supportive partner in his personal and scientific life.
  • 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_69a4935a94308190bb92555b79032824 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c03aaa8c8190bacb7de5a38329da completed March 1, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acacb5b8888190aa969c0d8cc3fd0d completed March 7, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acad018a6881908a4c10920f377484 completed March 7, 2026, 10:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acad6489448190b7b3dff089a17145 completed March 7, 2026, 10:57 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.