Triple

T1924748
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lloyd Bacon E40802 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Virginia Backus
Virginia Backus was the wife of American film director Lloyd Bacon, known for her connection to Hollywood through their marriage.
E215538 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: Virginia Backus | Statement: [Lloyd Bacon, spouse, Virginia Backus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia Backus
Context triple: [Lloyd Bacon, spouse, Virginia Backus]
  • A. Virginia Cunningham
    Virginia Cunningham is the troubled protagonist of the novel and film "The Snake Pit," whose experiences depict the harsh realities of life inside a mid-20th-century psychiatric institution.
  • B. Mary Easty
    Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
  • C. Myrtle Logue
    Myrtle Logue was the wife of Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue, known for supporting him during his work with King George VI.
  • D. Mary Barstow
    Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
  • E. Della Mae Jones
    Della Mae Jones was the woman who married Robert Stroud, the infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz," during his imprisonment.
  • 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: Virginia Backus
Triple: [Lloyd Bacon, spouse, Virginia Backus]
Generated description
Virginia Backus was the wife of American film director Lloyd Bacon, known for her connection to Hollywood through their marriage.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia Backus
Target entity description: Virginia Backus was the wife of American film director Lloyd Bacon, known for her connection to Hollywood through their marriage.
  • A. Virginia Cunningham
    Virginia Cunningham is the troubled protagonist of the novel and film "The Snake Pit," whose experiences depict the harsh realities of life inside a mid-20th-century psychiatric institution.
  • B. Mary Easty
    Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
  • C. Myrtle Logue
    Myrtle Logue was the wife of Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue, known for supporting him during his work with King George VI.
  • D. Mary Barstow
    Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
  • E. Della Mae Jones
    Della Mae Jones was the woman who married Robert Stroud, the infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz," during his imprisonment.
  • 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_69a8864711648190b07bed24ed76258e completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb2359ca0819082b514a34c469b21 completed March 7, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adf3e881748190b00f125185e91271 completed March 8, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adf494f0288190bf77285d18fcd3d9 completed March 8, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adf51f49488190b9b0465b4da685c1 completed March 8, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.