Triple

T1657632
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Irving Berlin E35835 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Ellin Mackay
Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
E252105 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: Ellin Mackay | Statement: [Irving Berlin, spouse, Ellin Mackay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellin Mackay
Context triple: [Irving Berlin, spouse, Ellin Mackay]
  • A. Katharine Tait
    Katharine Tait is a British writer and teacher best known as the daughter of philosopher Bertrand Russell and for her memoir about growing up in his unconventional, secular household.
  • B. Catherine Macmillan
    Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
  • C. Margaret McGregor
    Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
  • D. Helen Mack
    Helen Mack was an American film and radio actress of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her versatile performances in both comedy and drama.
  • E. Jane Innes
    Jane Innes was the wife of British statesman Thomas Pitt, connecting her to a prominent political and mercantile family in 18th-century Britain.
  • 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: Ellin Mackay
Triple: [Irving Berlin, spouse, Ellin Mackay]
Generated description
Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellin Mackay
Target entity description: Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
  • A. Katharine Tait
    Katharine Tait is a British writer and teacher best known as the daughter of philosopher Bertrand Russell and for her memoir about growing up in his unconventional, secular household.
  • B. Catherine Macmillan
    Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
  • C. Margaret McGregor
    Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
  • D. Helen Mack
    Helen Mack was an American film and radio actress of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her versatile performances in both comedy and drama.
  • E. Jane Innes
    Jane Innes was the wife of British statesman Thomas Pitt, connecting her to a prominent political and mercantile family in 18th-century Britain.
  • 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_69a88606aa808190aa0b421b4271f220 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90a8d85f08190a50ade3f443b7703 completed March 5, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae7ed8b7a08190a39f4b90fbf68cd9 completed March 9, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae7f701cc48190a5ca5320ac15117d completed March 9, 2026, 8:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae7ff1fb748190961febf3790f03cf completed March 9, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.