Triple
T2620195
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John McShain |
E58988
|
entity |
| Predicate | spouse |
P13
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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]
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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.
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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."
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C.
Ethel Gross
Ethel Gross was the first wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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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.
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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.
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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.