Triple

T2620195
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John McShain E58988 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Mary Horstmann McShain
Mary Horstmann McShain was an American philanthropist and art collector known for her charitable work and for jointly donating significant historic properties with her husband, contractor John McShain.
E361032 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: Mary Horstmann McShain | Statement: [John McShain, spouse, Mary Horstmann McShain]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Horstmann McShain
Context triple: [John McShain, spouse, Mary Horstmann McShain]
  • A. Marion Stein
    Marion Stein was an Austrian-born British concert pianist and music patron who became known as the wife of Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe and later the Countess of Harewood.
  • B. June Hovick
    June Hovick, better known as June Havoc, was an American actress, dancer, and writer whose early life as a child vaudeville performer inspired the musical "Gypsy."
  • C. Ethel Gross
    Ethel Gross was the first wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • D. Dorothy Goetz
    Dorothy Goetz was the first wife of American composer Irving Berlin, remembered largely for her brief marriage and early death, which deeply influenced his later work.
  • E. Anna Strunsky Walling
    Anna Strunsky Walling was an early 20th-century American socialist, feminist, and writer active in progressive and suffrage movements.
  • 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: Mary Horstmann McShain
Triple: [John McShain, spouse, Mary Horstmann McShain]
Generated description
Mary Horstmann McShain was an American philanthropist and art collector known for her charitable work and for jointly donating significant historic properties with her husband, contractor John McShain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Horstmann McShain
Target entity description: Mary Horstmann McShain was an American philanthropist and art collector known for her charitable work and for jointly donating significant historic properties with her husband, contractor John McShain.
  • A. Marion Stein
    Marion Stein was an Austrian-born British concert pianist and music patron who became known as the wife of Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe and later the Countess of Harewood.
  • B. June Hovick
    June Hovick, better known as June Havoc, was an American actress, dancer, and writer whose early life as a child vaudeville performer inspired the musical "Gypsy."
  • C. Ethel Gross
    Ethel Gross was the first wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • D. Dorothy Goetz
    Dorothy Goetz was the first wife of American composer Irving Berlin, remembered largely for her brief marriage and early death, which deeply influenced his later work.
  • E. Anna Strunsky Walling
    Anna Strunsky Walling was an early 20th-century American socialist, feminist, and writer active in progressive and suffrage movements.
  • 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_69ab4ac444dc819099614e534dd6021f completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd897acb481909a976b70304cc30e completed March 7, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b367dc88ac81909e73e290c745b8be completed March 13, 2026, 1:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3694c6c4081908549ab83a5052506 completed March 13, 2026, 1:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b369c7a06c819089b2decca626c554 completed March 13, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.