Triple

T2147259
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Busby E47095 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Catherine Busby
Catherine Busby was the wife of James Busby, the British Resident in New Zealand often called the "father" of the Treaty of Waitangi.
E240431 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: Catherine Busby | Statement: [James Busby, spouse, Catherine Busby]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catherine Busby
Context triple: [James Busby, spouse, Catherine Busby]
  • A. Anne Vere
    Anne Vere was an English noblewoman of the 17th century, best known as the wife of Parliamentarian general Sir Thomas Fairfax.
  • B. Mary Howard
    Mary Howard was the mother of English physician Robert Darwin and a member of the extended family lineage that produced naturalist Charles Darwin.
  • C. Elizabeth Blount
    Elizabeth Blount was an English noblewoman best known as a mistress of King Henry VIII and the mother of his acknowledged illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy.
  • D. Thomasine Clopton
    Thomasine Clopton was the first wife of John Winthrop, the future Puritan leader and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a member of an English gentry family.
  • E. Elizabeth Bourchier
    Elizabeth Bourchier was the wife of Oliver Cromwell and served as England's de facto first lady during his tenure as Lord Protector in the mid-17th century.
  • 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: Catherine Busby
Triple: [James Busby, spouse, Catherine Busby]
Generated description
Catherine Busby was the wife of James Busby, the British Resident in New Zealand often called the "father" of the Treaty of Waitangi.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catherine Busby
Target entity description: Catherine Busby was the wife of James Busby, the British Resident in New Zealand often called the "father" of the Treaty of Waitangi.
  • A. Anne Vere
    Anne Vere was an English noblewoman of the 17th century, best known as the wife of Parliamentarian general Sir Thomas Fairfax.
  • B. Mary Howard
    Mary Howard was the mother of English physician Robert Darwin and a member of the extended family lineage that produced naturalist Charles Darwin.
  • C. Elizabeth Blount
    Elizabeth Blount was an English noblewoman best known as a mistress of King Henry VIII and the mother of his acknowledged illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy.
  • D. Thomasine Clopton
    Thomasine Clopton was the first wife of John Winthrop, the future Puritan leader and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a member of an English gentry family.
  • E. Elizabeth Bourchier
    Elizabeth Bourchier was the wife of Oliver Cromwell and served as England's de facto first lady during his tenure as Lord Protector in the mid-17th century.
  • 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_69a88a1933e0819094f18426ed74180f completed March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbe271adc8190888c9086e9b8cc0c completed March 7, 2026, 5:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae58d75a5c8190b364a4ab5370558a completed March 9, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae595a222881908d86ba8690c4fc65 completed March 9, 2026, 5:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae59efdf4c8190aaa1d63ce6e98696 completed March 9, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:44 p.m.