Triple

T14355148
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Frank McCourt E355952 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Ellen Frey McCourt
Ellen Frey McCourt is the widow of Irish-American author Frank McCourt and a supporter of literary and educational causes associated with his legacy.
E1097756 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: Ellen Frey McCourt | Statement: [Frank McCourt, spouse, Ellen Frey McCourt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellen Frey McCourt
Context triple: [Frank McCourt, spouse, Ellen Frey McCourt]
  • A. Frank McCourt
    Frank McCourt was an Irish-American memoirist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning autobiography "Angela’s Ashes," which recounts his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland.
  • B. Frank McCourt
    Frank McCourt is an American businessman best known as the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball team.
  • C. Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt
    Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt, better known as Baby Doe Tabor, was a famous 19th-century American figure whose dramatic rise from miner’s wife to wealthy socialite and subsequent fall into poverty became a legendary tale of the Colorado silver boom.
  • D. Maggie McCourt
    Maggie McCourt is a member of the McCourt family, known as one of the children of Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Frank McCourt.
  • E. Karin Kinsella
    Karin Kinsella is the young daughter of Ray Kinsella in the film "Field of Dreams," whose innocent belief in the magical baseball field plays a key emotional role in the story.
  • 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: Ellen Frey McCourt
Triple: [Frank McCourt, spouse, Ellen Frey McCourt]
Generated description
Ellen Frey McCourt is the widow of Irish-American author Frank McCourt and a supporter of literary and educational causes associated with his legacy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellen Frey McCourt
Target entity description: Ellen Frey McCourt is the widow of Irish-American author Frank McCourt and a supporter of literary and educational causes associated with his legacy.
  • A. Frank McCourt
    Frank McCourt was an Irish-American memoirist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning autobiography "Angela’s Ashes," which recounts his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland.
  • B. Frank McCourt
    Frank McCourt is an American businessman best known as the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball team.
  • C. Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt
    Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt, better known as Baby Doe Tabor, was a famous 19th-century American figure whose dramatic rise from miner’s wife to wealthy socialite and subsequent fall into poverty became a legendary tale of the Colorado silver boom.
  • D. Maggie McCourt
    Maggie McCourt is a member of the McCourt family, known as one of the children of Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Frank McCourt.
  • E. Karin Kinsella
    Karin Kinsella is the young daughter of Ray Kinsella in the film "Field of Dreams," whose innocent belief in the magical baseball field plays a key emotional role in the story.
  • 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_69d82790a7e08190877e2d349b2e8d8e completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de8f519bf881908615f4d47e0f77aa completed April 14, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd550aef908190a7ec49e409f92dc7 completed May 8, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd5671340081909d87978be2a5522b completed May 8, 2026, 3:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd57a6711881909429bba35ee867c6 completed May 8, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:15 a.m.