Triple

T20752180
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert E. Howard E510748 entity
Predicate mother P120 FINISHED
Object Hester Jane Ervin Howard
Hester Jane Ervin Howard was the mother of American pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard, best known as the creator of Conan the Barbarian.
E1448372 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: Hester Jane Ervin Howard | Statement: [Robert E. Howard, mother, Hester Jane Ervin Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hester Jane Ervin Howard
Context triple: [Robert E. Howard, mother, Hester Jane Ervin Howard]
  • A. Hester Cornelia Reinet
    Hester Cornelia Reinet was the namesake of the South African town of Graaff-Reinet, reflecting her significance within the colonial-era community associated with its founders.
  • B. Hester Mahieu
    Hester Mahieu was a member of the Leiden Separatist community and the wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, making her part of the early 17th-century English Pilgrim circle associated with the founding of Plymouth Colony.
  • C. Hester Sigerson
    Hester Sigerson was the mother of Irish poet Dora Sigerson Shorter and a member of the culturally active Sigerson family associated with Ireland’s literary and nationalist circles.
  • D. Hester Pitt
    Hester Pitt was a daughter of British statesman William Pitt the Elder, belonging to a prominent 18th-century political family.
  • E. Hester Davenport
    Hester Davenport was a 17th-century English stage actress associated with the Duke’s Company during the Restoration period.
  • 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: Hester Jane Ervin Howard
Triple: [Robert E. Howard, mother, Hester Jane Ervin Howard]
Generated description
Hester Jane Ervin Howard was the mother of American pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard, best known as the creator of Conan the Barbarian.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hester Jane Ervin Howard
Target entity description: Hester Jane Ervin Howard was the mother of American pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard, best known as the creator of Conan the Barbarian.
  • A. Hester Cornelia Reinet
    Hester Cornelia Reinet was the namesake of the South African town of Graaff-Reinet, reflecting her significance within the colonial-era community associated with its founders.
  • B. Hester Mahieu
    Hester Mahieu was a member of the Leiden Separatist community and the wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, making her part of the early 17th-century English Pilgrim circle associated with the founding of Plymouth Colony.
  • C. Hester Sigerson
    Hester Sigerson was the mother of Irish poet Dora Sigerson Shorter and a member of the culturally active Sigerson family associated with Ireland’s literary and nationalist circles.
  • D. Hester Pitt
    Hester Pitt was a daughter of British statesman William Pitt the Elder, belonging to a prominent 18th-century political family.
  • E. Hester Davenport
    Hester Davenport was a 17th-century English stage actress associated with the Duke’s Company during the Restoration period.
  • 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_69e0b4c909ec8190b05987f1639513f6 completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c22be6588190b137193cb3184fc0 completed April 21, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08e8467a0c819096982615570c725a completed May 16, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08e91f9e648190a39d1ff3dc3ca040 completed May 16, 2026, 10:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08e9d349e88190b3fb6b30744df6c5 completed May 16, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:34 p.m.