Triple

T205876
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cissy Houston E4608 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object John Russell Houston Jr.
John Russell Houston Jr. was an American entertainment executive best known as the father of singer Whitney Houston and the former husband of gospel vocalist Cissy Houston.
E54924 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 Russell Houston Jr. | Statement: [Cissy Houston, spouse, John Russell Houston Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Russell Houston Jr.
Context triple: [Cissy Houston, spouse, John Russell Houston Jr.]
  • A. Randall Woodfin
    Randall Woodfin is an American politician and attorney who serves as the progressive, reform-focused mayor of Birmingham, Alabama.
  • B. Michael Houston
    Michael Houston is the son of renowned gospel and soul singer Cissy Houston and the brother of legendary pop icon Whitney Houston.
  • C. Jim Rice
    Jim Rice is a Hall of Fame former Major League Baseball left fielder who starred for the Boston Red Sox in the 1970s and 1980s as one of the era’s most feared power hitters.
  • D. John R. Steelman
    John R. Steelman was an American administrator and labor mediator who served as a top aide to President Harry S. Truman and became one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in the postwar White House.
  • E. Riley P. Bechtel
    Riley P. Bechtel is an American billionaire businessman who served as chairman and CEO of Bechtel Corporation, one of the world’s largest engineering and construction firms.
  • 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 Russell Houston Jr.
Triple: [Cissy Houston, spouse, John Russell Houston Jr.]
Generated description
John Russell Houston Jr. was an American entertainment executive best known as the father of singer Whitney Houston and the former husband of gospel vocalist Cissy Houston.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Russell Houston Jr.
Target entity description: John Russell Houston Jr. was an American entertainment executive best known as the father of singer Whitney Houston and the former husband of gospel vocalist Cissy Houston.
  • A. Randall Woodfin
    Randall Woodfin is an American politician and attorney who serves as the progressive, reform-focused mayor of Birmingham, Alabama.
  • B. Michael Houston
    Michael Houston is the son of renowned gospel and soul singer Cissy Houston and the brother of legendary pop icon Whitney Houston.
  • C. Jim Rice
    Jim Rice is a Hall of Fame former Major League Baseball left fielder who starred for the Boston Red Sox in the 1970s and 1980s as one of the era’s most feared power hitters.
  • D. John R. Steelman
    John R. Steelman was an American administrator and labor mediator who served as a top aide to President Harry S. Truman and became one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in the postwar White House.
  • E. Alton G. Keel Jr.
    Alton G. Keel Jr. was an American aerospace engineer and government official who held senior defense and space policy roles, including service on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • 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_69a25737567c81908f9c505300239181 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25c04e42481909e957cb34dc02731 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a431da3ccc8190955e0cc9e5da7eb9 completed March 1, 2026, 12:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a43580738081909f5d7a41c93293ef completed March 1, 2026, 12:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a435c695f08190966914d1a7e55d10 completed March 1, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:51 a.m.