Triple

T18901195
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Ship Who Sang series E462343 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object Margaret Ball
Margaret Ball is an American science fiction and fantasy author known for collaborating with Anne McCaffrey on works in the *Ship Who Sang* universe and writing several other genre novels.
E1352696 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: Margaret Ball | Statement: [The Ship Who Sang series, coAuthor, Margaret Ball]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Margaret Ball
Context triple: [The Ship Who Sang series, coAuthor, Margaret Ball]
  • A. Margaret Gill
    Margaret Gill was the wife of renowned 19th-century African American Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge.
  • B. Margaret Welsh
    Margaret Welsh is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater.
  • C. Margaret Lickford
    Margaret Lickford was the wife of English film and stage actor H. B. Warner, known for his roles in early Hollywood cinema.
  • D. Margaret Hughes
    Margaret Hughes is a historical figure best known as one of the first professional English actresses to perform on the public stage in the 17th century.
  • E. Margaret Whigham
    Margaret Whigham, later known as Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, was a prominent British socialite whose glamorous lifestyle and highly publicized divorce scandal made her one of the most notorious figures of mid-20th-century high society.
  • 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: Margaret Ball
Triple: [The Ship Who Sang series, coAuthor, Margaret Ball]
Generated description
Margaret Ball is an American science fiction and fantasy author known for collaborating with Anne McCaffrey on works in the *Ship Who Sang* universe and writing several other genre novels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Margaret Ball
Target entity description: Margaret Ball is an American science fiction and fantasy author known for collaborating with Anne McCaffrey on works in the *Ship Who Sang* universe and writing several other genre novels.
  • A. Margaret Gill
    Margaret Gill was the wife of renowned 19th-century African American Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge.
  • B. Margaret Welsh
    Margaret Welsh is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater.
  • C. Margaret Lickford
    Margaret Lickford was the wife of English film and stage actor H. B. Warner, known for his roles in early Hollywood cinema.
  • D. Margaret Hughes
    Margaret Hughes is a historical figure best known as one of the first professional English actresses to perform on the public stage in the 17th century.
  • E. Margaret Whigham
    Margaret Whigham, later known as Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, was a prominent British socialite whose glamorous lifestyle and highly publicized divorce scandal made her one of the most notorious figures of mid-20th-century high society.
  • 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_69d8dcfd05bc819088903cca13cc2846 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5c52954bc8190a237627c09615ac1 completed April 20, 2026, 6:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05ad28863c81908f1e97a04f7e503d completed May 14, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05af056a0c8190969f3b7a371aa453 completed May 14, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05afb1c02481909018f47be226f486 completed May 14, 2026, 11:19 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:58 a.m.