Triple

T21402746
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McLean Stevenson E527951 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Ginny Fosdick
Ginny Fosdick is best known as the wife of American actor and comedian McLean Stevenson, who played Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the television series M*A*S*H.
 E1552805 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: Ginny Fosdick | Statement: [McLean Stevenson, spouse, Ginny Fosdick]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ginny Fosdick
Context triple: [McLean Stevenson, spouse, Ginny Fosdick]
  • A. Barbara Fitts
    Barbara Fitts is a fictional character from the film "American Beauty," portrayed as the emotionally withdrawn wife of Colonel Frank Fitts.
  • B. Gail Gregg
    Gail Gregg is an American artist and journalist known for her work in visual arts and for her connection to the prominent Sulzberger publishing family.
  • C. Gail Winston
    Gail Winston is a publishing executive and editor known for her work in the book industry and her marriage to writer and critic Frank Rich.
  • D. Gail Youngs
    Gail Youngs is an American actress known for her film and television roles in the 1980s, including appearances in movies like "The Stone Boy" and "Deadly Force."
  • E. Darlene Ferrin
    Darlene Ferrin was a young woman from Vallejo, California, whose 1969 murder is one of the most infamous attacks attributed to the Zodiac Killer.
  • 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: Ginny Fosdick
Triple: [McLean Stevenson, spouse, Ginny Fosdick]
Generated description
Ginny Fosdick is best known as the wife of American actor and comedian McLean Stevenson, who played Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the television series M*A*S*H.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ginny Fosdick
Target entity description: Ginny Fosdick is best known as the wife of American actor and comedian McLean Stevenson, who played Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the television series M*A*S*H.
  • A. Barbara Fitts
    Barbara Fitts is a fictional character from the film "American Beauty," portrayed as the emotionally withdrawn wife of Colonel Frank Fitts.
  • B. Gail Gregg
    Gail Gregg is an American artist and journalist known for her work in visual arts and for her connection to the prominent Sulzberger publishing family.
  • C. Gail Winston
    Gail Winston is a publishing executive and editor known for her work in the book industry and her marriage to writer and critic Frank Rich.
  • D. Gail Youngs
    Gail Youngs is an American actress known for her film and television roles in the 1980s, including appearances in movies like "The Stone Boy" and "Deadly Force."
  • E. Darlene Ferrin
    Darlene Ferrin was a young woman from Vallejo, California, whose 1969 murder is one of the most infamous attacks attributed to the Zodiac Killer.
  • 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_69e0b520ee3c8190abddbee7e37e834c completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e8b171336c819083ae5e2c0f5d4b95 completed April 22, 2026, 11:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b97fc2600819085486a9d540c9df3 completed May 18, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b9884cb548190958d16f42be4bea8 completed May 18, 2026, 10:53 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b98e7887881909ec9cc4a2a2167c5 completed May 18, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 5:24 p.m.