Triple

T260331
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elizabeth Howe E5526 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object James Howe Jr.
James Howe Jr. was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as the husband of Elizabeth Howe, one of the women executed during the Salem witch trials.
 E33779 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: James Howe Jr. | Statement: [Elizabeth Howe, spouse, James Howe Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Howe Jr.
Context triple: [Elizabeth Howe, spouse, James Howe Jr.]
  • A. Jack Kinney
    Jack Kinney was an American animator and director best known for his work on classic Disney cartoons and feature segments during the mid-20th century.
  • B. David Home
    David Home is the original birth name of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, renowned for his influential works on empiricism, skepticism, and moral philosophy.
  • C. Charles Foster
    Charles Foster is one of the children of acclaimed American actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster.
  • D. Valeria Wasserman
    Valeria Wasserman is a Brazilian linguist and translator best known as the wife of renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky.
  • E. Sam Seaborn
    Sam Seaborn is a central character on the political drama series "The West Wing," serving as an idealistic and eloquent Deputy White House Communications Director in the Bartlet administration.
  • 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: James Howe Jr.
Triple: [Elizabeth Howe, spouse, James Howe Jr.]
Generated description
James Howe Jr. was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as the husband of Elizabeth Howe, one of the women executed during the Salem witch trials.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Howe Jr.
Target entity description: James Howe Jr. was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as the husband of Elizabeth Howe, one of the women executed during the Salem witch trials.
  • A. Jack Kinney
    Jack Kinney was an American animator and director best known for his work on classic Disney cartoons and feature segments during the mid-20th century.
  • B. David Home
    David Home is the original birth name of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, renowned for his influential works on empiricism, skepticism, and moral philosophy.
  • C. Charles Foster
    Charles Foster is one of the children of acclaimed American actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster.
  • D. Valeria Wasserman
    Valeria Wasserman is a Brazilian linguist and translator best known as the wife of renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky.
  • E. Sam Seaborn
    Sam Seaborn is a central character on the political drama series "The West Wing," serving as an idealistic and eloquent Deputy White House Communications Director in the Bartlet administration.
  • 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_69a2580a64ac8190ad76e34bb0715b5e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25d72dad4819092c9502e6e4edc44 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3837622cc819096df20695413b5c0 completed March 1, 2026, 12:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a38470215c8190b6541ab567ca5721 completed March 1, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a384cbfbec81909a3ae67f51dadfb3 completed March 1, 2026, 12:14 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:55 a.m.