Triple

T18287686
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George Meredith E438024 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Mary Ellen Nicolls
Mary Ellen Nicolls was the first wife of Victorian novelist and poet George Meredith, whose troubled marriage significantly influenced his literary work.
 E1388560 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: Mary Ellen Nicolls | Statement: [George Meredith, spouse, Mary Ellen Nicolls]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mary Ellen Nicolls
Context triple: [George Meredith, spouse, Mary Ellen Nicolls]
  • A. Mary McDougall
    Mary McDougall is known primarily as the daughter of American Revolutionary War officer and political leader Alexander McDougall.
  • B. Mary Ellen Henderson
    Mary Ellen Henderson was an educator and civil rights advocate whose legacy in promoting equal educational opportunities led to a middle school being named in her honor.
  • C. Emily Willans
    Emily Willans was the mother of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a member of the Victorian-era English middle class.
  • D. Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson
    Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson is the birth name of Tipper Gore, the American social issues advocate and former Second Lady of the United States.
  • E. Sybil Dyer
    Sybil Dyer is known primarily as the wife of Jack Dyer, the legendary Australian rules footballer and Richmond Football Club icon.
  • 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: Mary Ellen Nicolls
Triple: [George Meredith, spouse, Mary Ellen Nicolls]
Generated description
Mary Ellen Nicolls was the first wife of Victorian novelist and poet George Meredith, whose troubled marriage significantly influenced his literary work.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mary Ellen Nicolls
Target entity description: Mary Ellen Nicolls was the first wife of Victorian novelist and poet George Meredith, whose troubled marriage significantly influenced his literary work.
  • A. Mary McDougall
    Mary McDougall is known primarily as the daughter of American Revolutionary War officer and political leader Alexander McDougall.
  • B. Mary Ellen Henderson
    Mary Ellen Henderson was an educator and civil rights advocate whose legacy in promoting equal educational opportunities led to a middle school being named in her honor.
  • C. Emily Willans
    Emily Willans was the mother of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a member of the Victorian-era English middle class.
  • D. Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson
    Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson is the birth name of Tipper Gore, the American social issues advocate and former Second Lady of the United States.
  • E. Sybil Dyer
    Sybil Dyer is known primarily as the wife of Jack Dyer, the legendary Australian rules footballer and Richmond Football Club icon.
  • 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_69d8b914530c8190b4474d862a2b2a1b completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e500faf62081908f16ebee0a195ba2 completed April 19, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a077eca55048190a7ff5ddfea12ed47 completed May 15, 2026, 8:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07803a71048190a49fd3169eebbc27 completed May 15, 2026, 8:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07810b1de88190a2516712767fde52 completed May 15, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:35 a.m.