Triple

T2172289
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Margaret Hamilton E48452 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Paul Boynton Meserve
Paul Boynton Meserve was the husband of American actress Margaret Hamilton, best known for her role as the Wicked Witch of the West in "The Wizard of Oz."
E239334 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: Paul Boynton Meserve | Statement: [Margaret Hamilton, spouse, Paul Boynton Meserve]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Boynton Meserve
Context triple: [Margaret Hamilton, spouse, Paul Boynton Meserve]
  • A. Allen Thorndike Rice
    Allen Thorndike Rice was a 19th-century American journalist, editor, and publisher best known for revitalizing and expanding the influence of the North American Review.
  • B. William Wesley Peters
    William Wesley Peters was an American architect best known as a chief associate and protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright and a leading figure at the Taliesin Fellowship.
  • C. Ruggles Sylvester Morse
    Ruggles Sylvester Morse was a wealthy 19th-century hotelier and entrepreneur best known for commissioning and owning the opulent Victoria Mansion in Portland, Maine.
  • D. Thomas Sampson
    Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
  • E. Harold Hazen
    Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
  • 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: Paul Boynton Meserve
Triple: [Margaret Hamilton, spouse, Paul Boynton Meserve]
Generated description
Paul Boynton Meserve was the husband of American actress Margaret Hamilton, best known for her role as the Wicked Witch of the West in "The Wizard of Oz."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Boynton Meserve
Target entity description: Paul Boynton Meserve was the husband of American actress Margaret Hamilton, best known for her role as the Wicked Witch of the West in "The Wizard of Oz."
  • A. Allen Thorndike Rice
    Allen Thorndike Rice was a 19th-century American journalist, editor, and publisher best known for revitalizing and expanding the influence of the North American Review.
  • B. William Wesley Peters
    William Wesley Peters was an American architect best known as a chief associate and protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright and a leading figure at the Taliesin Fellowship.
  • C. Ruggles Sylvester Morse
    Ruggles Sylvester Morse was a wealthy 19th-century hotelier and entrepreneur best known for commissioning and owning the opulent Victoria Mansion in Portland, Maine.
  • D. Thomas Sampson
    Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
  • E. Harold Hazen
    Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
  • 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_69a88aa3faa48190995b233af6525815 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbec98a648190907ef4c6cad916d3 completed March 7, 2026, 5:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae58f6c8c8819081a06861f6133fe9 completed March 9, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae5989f054819082f36e5515bec3ca completed March 9, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5a12f11c81908cc345905f0a485e completed March 9, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:45 p.m.