Triple

T20870583
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Damon Runyon E513878 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Ellen Egan — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Ellen Egan | Statement: [Damon Runyon, spouse, Ellen Egan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ellen Egan
Context triple: [Damon Runyon, spouse, Ellen Egan]
  • A. Lesley Egan
    Lesley Egan was a British-born American mystery writer best known for her crime and detective novels, often published under multiple pseudonyms.
  • B. Beverly Gage
    Beverly Gage is an American historian and Yale professor known for her scholarship on 20th-century U.S. political history and her acclaimed biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
  • C. Diane Shaughnessy
    Diane Shaughnessy is known as the wife of renowned American jazz drummer Ed Shaughnessy, who was a longtime member of Doc Severinsen’s band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
  • D. Patricia Dane
    Patricia Dane was an American film actress of the 1940s who appeared in several MGM productions and was briefly married to bandleader Tommy Dorsey.
  • E. Karin Kinsella
    Karin Kinsella is the young daughter of Ray Kinsella in the film "Field of Dreams," whose innocent belief in the magical baseball field plays a key emotional role in the story.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ellen Egan
Target entity description: Ellen Egan was the wife of American newspaperman and short story writer Damon Runyon, known for her connection to the celebrated chronicler of Broadway’s underworld.
  • A. Lesley Egan
    Lesley Egan was a British-born American mystery writer best known for her crime and detective novels, often published under multiple pseudonyms.
  • B. Beverly Gage
    Beverly Gage is an American historian and Yale professor known for her scholarship on 20th-century U.S. political history and her acclaimed biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
  • C. Diane Shaughnessy
    Diane Shaughnessy is known as the wife of renowned American jazz drummer Ed Shaughnessy, who was a longtime member of Doc Severinsen’s band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
  • D. Patricia Dane
    Patricia Dane was an American film actress of the 1940s who appeared in several MGM productions and was briefly married to bandleader Tommy Dorsey.
  • E. Karin Kinsella
    Karin Kinsella is the young daughter of Ray Kinsella in the film "Field of Dreams," whose innocent belief in the magical baseball field plays a key emotional role in the story.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69e0b4f675cc8190b4e745225b62eb66 completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c4637ec48190830023d20fb8124c completed April 21, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:45 p.m.