Triple

T13409239
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Catherine Drinker Bowen E320044 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was a Canadian-born inventor and radio pioneer best known for making some of the earliest audio radio broadcasts and key contributions to wireless telephony.
E1039867 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: Reginald Aubrey Fessenden | Statement: [Catherine Drinker Bowen, spouse, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
Context triple: [Catherine Drinker Bowen, spouse, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden]
  • A. Lee de Forest
    Lee de Forest was an American inventor and radio pioneer best known for creating the Audion vacuum tube, a key development in early electronics and wireless communication.
  • B. Robert W. de Forest
    Robert W. de Forest was an American lawyer, philanthropist, and civic leader known for his influential roles in social reform, public health, and the arts in the early 20th century United States.
  • C. Edwin H. Armstrong
    Edwin H. Armstrong was a pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor best known for developing frequency modulation (FM) radio and several fundamental radio technologies.
  • D. Guglielmo Marconi
    Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer best known for pioneering long-distance radio communication and developing the first practical wireless telegraph system.
  • E. William P. Fessenden
    William P. Fessenden was a prominent 19th-century American statesman who served as a U.S. senator from Maine and briefly as Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War.
  • 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: Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
Triple: [Catherine Drinker Bowen, spouse, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden]
Generated description
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was a Canadian-born inventor and radio pioneer best known for making some of the earliest audio radio broadcasts and key contributions to wireless telephony.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
Target entity description: Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was a Canadian-born inventor and radio pioneer best known for making some of the earliest audio radio broadcasts and key contributions to wireless telephony.
  • A. Lee de Forest
    Lee de Forest was an American inventor and radio pioneer best known for creating the Audion vacuum tube, a key development in early electronics and wireless communication.
  • B. Robert W. de Forest
    Robert W. de Forest was an American lawyer, philanthropist, and civic leader known for his influential roles in social reform, public health, and the arts in the early 20th century United States.
  • C. Edwin H. Armstrong
    Edwin H. Armstrong was a pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor best known for developing frequency modulation (FM) radio and several fundamental radio technologies.
  • D. Guglielmo Marconi
    Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer best known for pioneering long-distance radio communication and developing the first practical wireless telegraph system.
  • E. William P. Fessenden
    William P. Fessenden was a prominent 19th-century American statesman who served as a U.S. senator from Maine and briefly as Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War.
  • 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_69d806b943cc8190b6af624d385d7e12 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbae4d2c5481908facfaaa1501e344 completed April 12, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7307ccff08190aa4037aa5a48f7d0 completed May 3, 2026, 11:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7313c6bcc8190a848cf8945a0ae2a completed May 3, 2026, 11:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f736f2f6a081908d532dba6f34ed97 completed May 3, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:35 p.m.