Triple

T23243745
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mary Esther Lee E581527 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object William Henry Lee
William Henry Lee was a 19th-century American businessman and member of the prominent Lee family, known primarily as the brother of philanthropist Mary Esther Lee.
E1576728 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: William Henry Lee | Statement: [Mary Esther Lee, sibling, William Henry Lee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Lee
Context triple: [Mary Esther Lee, sibling, William Henry Lee]
  • A. Joseph Hardin
    Joseph Hardin was an American Revolutionary War officer and early frontier leader whose legacy is commemorated in several place names in the southeastern United States.
  • B. Henry Lee
    Henry Lee was an American financier best known as a founding partner of the prominent Boston investment banking firm Lee, Higginson & Co.
  • C. Jeb Stuart Adams
    Jeb Stuart Adams is an American actor best known for his role in the 1987 film adaptation of "Flowers in the Attic."
  • D. Jeb Stuart Anderson
    Jeb Stuart Anderson is a country music songwriter best known for co-writing Tim McGraw’s hit single “I Like It, I Love It.”
  • E. William Cameron McCool
    William Cameron McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Columbia on its ill-fated STS-107 mission.
  • 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: William Henry Lee
Triple: [Mary Esther Lee, sibling, William Henry Lee]
Generated description
William Henry Lee was a 19th-century American businessman and member of the prominent Lee family, known primarily as the brother of philanthropist Mary Esther Lee.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Lee
Target entity description: William Henry Lee was a 19th-century American businessman and member of the prominent Lee family, known primarily as the brother of philanthropist Mary Esther Lee.
  • A. Joseph Hardin
    Joseph Hardin was an American Revolutionary War officer and early frontier leader whose legacy is commemorated in several place names in the southeastern United States.
  • B. Henry Lee
    Henry Lee was an American financier best known as a founding partner of the prominent Boston investment banking firm Lee, Higginson & Co.
  • C. Jeb Stuart Adams
    Jeb Stuart Adams is an American actor best known for his role in the 1987 film adaptation of "Flowers in the Attic."
  • D. Jeb Stuart Anderson
    Jeb Stuart Anderson is a country music songwriter best known for co-writing Tim McGraw’s hit single “I Like It, I Love It.”
  • E. William Cameron McCool
    William Cameron McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Columbia on its ill-fated STS-107 mission.
  • 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_69e24606b17c81908aba1a4911c8a8ba completed April 17, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f192efd44c8190b179b4d1cb71efa5 completed April 29, 2026, 5:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c3f624cfc81908be70a8887890449 completed May 19, 2026, 10:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c405be1188190b6622665e448bbe7 completed May 19, 2026, 10:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c40c6562481908689eca2a4997115 completed May 19, 2026, 10:51 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:10 p.m.