Triple

T16443124
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roger Dearborn Lapham E399355 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Helen Abbott Lapham
Helen Abbott Lapham was an American philanthropist and civic leader known for her support of education, the arts, and social welfare initiatives.
E1395880 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: Helen Abbott Lapham | Statement: [Roger Dearborn Lapham, spouse, Helen Abbott Lapham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Helen Abbott Lapham
Context triple: [Roger Dearborn Lapham, spouse, Helen Abbott Lapham]
  • A. Persis Lapham
    Persis Lapham is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s realist novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," depicted as the morally grounded wife who provides emotional and ethical balance to her ambitious husband.
  • B. Elizabeth Burnham Merrill
    Elizabeth Burnham Merrill was the wife of Massachusetts politician and diplomat Curtis Guild Jr., noted primarily for her role within Boston’s prominent social and political circles in the early 20th century.
  • C. Elinor Burkett
    Elinor Burkett is an American journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker known for her work on socially and politically themed films, including the Academy Award-winning short documentary "Music by Prudence."
  • D. Harriet Putnam Fowler
    Harriet Putnam Fowler was an American 19th-century writer and genealogist known for her works on the history and lineage of the Putnam family.
  • E. Edith Cushing
    Edith Cushing is the aspiring young American author and protagonist of Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic romance film "Crimson Peak," whose curiosity and independence draw her into a haunted English manor filled with dark family secrets.
  • 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: Helen Abbott Lapham
Triple: [Roger Dearborn Lapham, spouse, Helen Abbott Lapham]
Generated description
Helen Abbott Lapham was an American philanthropist and civic leader known for her support of education, the arts, and social welfare initiatives.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Helen Abbott Lapham
Target entity description: Helen Abbott Lapham was an American philanthropist and civic leader known for her support of education, the arts, and social welfare initiatives.
  • A. Persis Lapham
    Persis Lapham is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s realist novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," depicted as the morally grounded wife who provides emotional and ethical balance to her ambitious husband.
  • B. Elizabeth Burnham Merrill
    Elizabeth Burnham Merrill was the wife of Massachusetts politician and diplomat Curtis Guild Jr., noted primarily for her role within Boston’s prominent social and political circles in the early 20th century.
  • C. Elinor Burkett
    Elinor Burkett is an American journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker known for her work on socially and politically themed films, including the Academy Award-winning short documentary "Music by Prudence."
  • D. Harriet Putnam Fowler
    Harriet Putnam Fowler was an American 19th-century writer and genealogist known for her works on the history and lineage of the Putnam family.
  • E. Edith Cushing
    Edith Cushing is the aspiring young American author and protagonist of Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic romance film "Crimson Peak," whose curiosity and independence draw her into a haunted English manor filled with dark family secrets.
  • 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_69d87f2c6778819080fcfae53be8f12a completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32cd8d2988190acb5722a15623319 completed April 18, 2026, 7:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07c4dd20d88190bc3dc16062764414 completed May 16, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07c5aea8948190b6e5bbcea8053478 completed May 16, 2026, 1:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07c6846fb481908e1d5aae2c53a7ba completed May 16, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:10 a.m.