Triple

T1268967
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herman Melville E15665 entity
Predicate mother P120 FINISHED
Object Maria Gansevoort Melvill
Maria Gansevoort Melvill was an American woman from a prominent Dutch-descended New York family, best known as the mother of novelist Herman Melville.
E148477 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: Maria Gansevoort Melvill | Statement: [Herman Melville, mother, Maria Gansevoort Melvill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maria Gansevoort Melvill
Context triple: [Herman Melville, mother, Maria Gansevoort Melvill]
  • A. Isabella Brant
    Isabella Brant was the first wife and frequent muse of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, known from several of his celebrated portraits.
  • B. Ann Eliza Birney Russell
    Ann Eliza Birney Russell was the mother of Charles Taze Russell, the American religious leader who founded what became the Bible Student movement and influenced Jehovah’s Witnesses.
  • C. William Irving
    William Irving was the brother of famed American author Washington Irving and a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York.
  • D. Mary Jane Ward
    Mary Jane Ward was an American novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical work "The Snake Pit," which exposed the harsh realities of mid-20th-century psychiatric institutions.
  • E. Muriel Whiting
    Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
  • 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: Maria Gansevoort Melvill
Triple: [Herman Melville, mother, Maria Gansevoort Melvill]
Generated description
Maria Gansevoort Melvill was an American woman from a prominent Dutch-descended New York family, best known as the mother of novelist Herman Melville.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maria Gansevoort Melvill
Target entity description: Maria Gansevoort Melvill was an American woman from a prominent Dutch-descended New York family, best known as the mother of novelist Herman Melville.
  • A. Isabella Brant
    Isabella Brant was the first wife and frequent muse of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, known from several of his celebrated portraits.
  • B. Ann Eliza Birney Russell
    Ann Eliza Birney Russell was the mother of Charles Taze Russell, the American religious leader who founded what became the Bible Student movement and influenced Jehovah’s Witnesses.
  • C. William Irving
    William Irving was the brother of famed American author Washington Irving and a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York.
  • D. Mary Jane Ward
    Mary Jane Ward was an American novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical work "The Snake Pit," which exposed the harsh realities of mid-20th-century psychiatric institutions.
  • E. Muriel Whiting
    Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
  • 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_69acb2fa8aec8190ad68b9dc87c85cfc completed March 7, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acb364f2d88190b20ad87001349562 completed March 7, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acb3ce7720819095558536e0a978b8 completed March 7, 2026, 11:25 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.