Triple

T13723741
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alistair Cooke E329100 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Ruth Emerson
Ruth Emerson was the first wife of British-American journalist and broadcaster Alistair Cooke.
E1068194 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: Ruth Emerson | Statement: [Alistair Cooke, spouse, Ruth Emerson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ruth Emerson
Context triple: [Alistair Cooke, spouse, Ruth Emerson]
  • A. Irene Emerson
    Irene Emerson was the white woman who owned and claimed legal rights over Dred Scott during the period leading up to his landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Dred Scott v. Sandford.
  • B. Ruth Lay
    Ruth Lay was the mother of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay and a member of the family from which he emerged.
  • C. Ruth Nelson
    Ruth Nelson was an American stage and film actress known for her work with the Group Theatre and roles in classic mid-20th-century films.
  • D. Ruth Noble
    Ruth Noble is known as the wife of American novelist Winston Groom, author of "Forrest Gump."
  • E. Ruth Calvert
    Ruth Calvert was the wife of American character actor Ray Walston, known for maintaining a long, private marriage to the stage and screen performer.
  • 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: Ruth Emerson
Triple: [Alistair Cooke, spouse, Ruth Emerson]
Generated description
Ruth Emerson was the first wife of British-American journalist and broadcaster Alistair Cooke.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ruth Emerson
Target entity description: Ruth Emerson was the first wife of British-American journalist and broadcaster Alistair Cooke.
  • A. Irene Emerson
    Irene Emerson was the white woman who owned and claimed legal rights over Dred Scott during the period leading up to his landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Dred Scott v. Sandford.
  • B. Ruth Lay
    Ruth Lay was the mother of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay and a member of the family from which he emerged.
  • C. Ruth Nelson
    Ruth Nelson was an American stage and film actress known for her work with the Group Theatre and roles in classic mid-20th-century films.
  • D. Ruth Noble
    Ruth Noble is known as the wife of American novelist Winston Groom, author of "Forrest Gump."
  • E. Ruth Calvert
    Ruth Calvert was the wife of American character actor Ray Walston, known for maintaining a long, private marriage to the stage and screen performer.
  • 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_69d80770b9bc81909f70c8c317d53cff completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de01f52e748190b49c34e10ab8ac34 completed April 14, 2026, 8:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7c6fcddf08190bee3dce22be39a34 completed May 3, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7c93a3d0c8190a6417f0db54119f5 completed May 3, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7c9b2930c8190983f2c55a0dd35f6 completed May 3, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:55 p.m.