Triple

T1846549
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Helene Costello E41295 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object John W. Regan
John W. Regan was the husband of American silent film actress Helene Costello.
 E233045 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: John W. Regan | Statement: [Helene Costello, spouse, John W. Regan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John W. Regan
Context triple: [Helene Costello, spouse, John W. Regan]
  • A. Fred McMullin
    Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
  • B. Don Roberts
    Don Roberts is a software engineer and author known for his contributions to object-oriented design and refactoring, including work on the influential book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
  • C. William C. Reynolds
    William C. Reynolds was a prominent American mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist known for influential contributions to turbulence and compressible flow research.
  • D. John W. Considine Jr.
    John W. Considine Jr. was an American film producer active during Hollywood’s early studio era, known for overseeing a range of feature productions.
  • E. Edward E. Carlson
    Edward E. Carlson was an American hotel executive and civic leader best known for conceiving and championing the Space Needle as the centerpiece of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.
  • 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: John W. Regan
Triple: [Helene Costello, spouse, John W. Regan]
Generated description
John W. Regan was the husband of American silent film actress Helene Costello.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John W. Regan
Target entity description: John W. Regan was the husband of American silent film actress Helene Costello.
  • A. Fred McMullin
    Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
  • B. Don Roberts
    Don Roberts is a software engineer and author known for his contributions to object-oriented design and refactoring, including work on the influential book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
  • C. William C. Reynolds
    William C. Reynolds was a prominent American mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist known for influential contributions to turbulence and compressible flow research.
  • D. John W. Considine Jr.
    John W. Considine Jr. was an American film producer active during Hollywood’s early studio era, known for overseeing a range of feature productions.
  • E. Edward E. Carlson
    Edward E. Carlson was an American hotel executive and civic leader best known for conceiving and championing the Space Needle as the centerpiece of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.
  • 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_69a88648cd44819093303206d96d76ad completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb052e0a8819091bbc0da0e0a20fb completed March 7, 2026, 4:57 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae30409f4c819084c6833ee75343a2 completed March 9, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae30f6b7c4819080cb7cb7adc1f6d3 completed March 9, 2026, 2:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae31849d7c8190a4e3c90334bf21a5 completed March 9, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.