Triple

T1556997
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Hard Townes E33227 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Frances H. Townes
Frances H. Townes was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Charles Hard Townes and a partner in his scientific and personal life, known for her support of his career and their shared involvement in academic and community activities.
E255719 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: Frances H. Townes | Statement: [Charles Hard Townes, spouse, Frances H. Townes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frances H. Townes
Context triple: [Charles Hard Townes, spouse, Frances H. Townes]
  • A. Margaret C. Etter
    Margaret C. Etter was an influential American chemist and crystallographer known for pioneering work in hydrogen bonding and crystal engineering.
  • B. Lillian C. McDermott
    Lillian C. McDermott was a pioneering physics education researcher and professor known for transforming the teaching and learning of physics through research-based instructional methods.
  • C. Henrietta Hill Swope
    Henrietta Hill Swope was an American astronomer known for her pioneering work on variable stars and for being one of the first women to make significant contributions to modern observational astronomy.
  • D. Laura E. Richards
    Laura E. Richards was an American author of children’s literature and biographies, known for works such as her Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of her mother, Julia Ward Howe.
  • E. Edith Scott Bagley
    Edith Scott Bagley was an American educator and the younger sister of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King, known for her work in education and support of the civil rights movement.
  • 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: Frances H. Townes
Triple: [Charles Hard Townes, spouse, Frances H. Townes]
Generated description
Frances H. Townes was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Charles Hard Townes and a partner in his scientific and personal life, known for her support of his career and their shared involvement in academic and community activities.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frances H. Townes
Target entity description: Frances H. Townes was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Charles Hard Townes and a partner in his scientific and personal life, known for her support of his career and their shared involvement in academic and community activities.
  • A. Margaret C. Etter
    Margaret C. Etter was an influential American chemist and crystallographer known for pioneering work in hydrogen bonding and crystal engineering.
  • B. Lillian C. McDermott
    Lillian C. McDermott was a pioneering physics education researcher and professor known for transforming the teaching and learning of physics through research-based instructional methods.
  • C. Henrietta Hill Swope
    Henrietta Hill Swope was an American astronomer known for her pioneering work on variable stars and for being one of the first women to make significant contributions to modern observational astronomy.
  • D. Laura E. Richards
    Laura E. Richards was an American author of children’s literature and biographies, known for works such as her Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of her mother, Julia Ward Howe.
  • E. Edith Scott Bagley
    Edith Scott Bagley was an American educator and the younger sister of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King, known for her work in education and support of the civil rights movement.
  • 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_69a885ef9cf48190b0af0f5ce3d02231 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a908704d208190937af41c6454df4e completed March 5, 2026, 4:37 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae891d41d88190aec6987c64c99757 completed March 9, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae8b0b27cc819099a5df60d678d3e2 completed March 9, 2026, 8:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae8b79633881908acf94f8db389c0f completed March 9, 2026, 8:57 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.