Triple

T17864759

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Gavin Menzies	`E446664`	entity
Predicate	spouse	`P13`	FINISHED
Object	Marcella Menzies	`—`	NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Marcella Menzies | Statement: [Gavin Menzies, spouse, Marcella Menzies]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Marcella Menzies
Context triple: [Gavin Menzies, spouse, Marcella Menzies]

A. Patricia Morison
Patricia Morison was an American stage and film actress and singer best known for her star-making role in the original Broadway production of the musical "Kiss Me, Kate."
B. Barbara Weston
Barbara Weston is the central character of the American sitcom "Empty Nest," portrayed as a quirky and often scatterbrained adult daughter living with her widowed father.
C. Barbara Grant
Barbara Grant is a fictional character associated with Catriona, likely appearing in a literary or narrative work connected to that name.
D. Joan Winfield
Joan Winfield is a fictional heiress character in the 1941 romantic comedy film "The Bride Came C.O.D.," portrayed by actress Bette Davis.
E. Annette Crosbie
Annette Crosbie is a Scottish actress best known for her award-winning television and film roles, including her BAFTA-winning performance in "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" and her long-running part in the sitcom "One Foot in the Grave."
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Marcella Menzies
Target entity description: Marcella Menzies is best known as the wife of British author and amateur historian Gavin Menzies, who gained fame for his controversial theories about early Chinese exploration.

A. Patricia Morison
Patricia Morison was an American stage and film actress and singer best known for her star-making role in the original Broadway production of the musical "Kiss Me, Kate."
B. Barbara Weston
Barbara Weston is the central character of the American sitcom "Empty Nest," portrayed as a quirky and often scatterbrained adult daughter living with her widowed father.
C. Barbara Grant
Barbara Grant is a fictional character associated with Catriona, likely appearing in a literary or narrative work connected to that name.
D. Joan Winfield
Joan Winfield is a fictional heiress character in the 1941 romantic comedy film "The Bride Came C.O.D.," portrayed by actress Bette Davis.
E. Annette Crosbie
Annette Crosbie is a Scottish actress best known for her award-winning television and film roles, including her BAFTA-winning performance in "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" and her long-running part in the sitcom "One Foot in the Grave."
F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69d8b9f4c22c819093c2680434472894`	completed	April 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69e49792ccf88190a0984963bb385688`	completed	April 19, 2026, 8:51 a.m.

Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:17 a.m.