Triple

T2728208
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jane Darwell E60245 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object William A. Pitney
William A. Pitney was the husband of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
E567810 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 A. Pitney | Statement: [Jane Darwell, spouse, William A. Pitney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William A. Pitney
Context triple: [Jane Darwell, spouse, William A. Pitney]
  • A. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • B. Samuel J. Kirkwood
    Samuel J. Kirkwood was a 19th-century American politician best known for serving as governor of Iowa and as a U.S. senator during the Civil War era.
  • C. John D. Nichols
    John D. Nichols is a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose contributions to the arts and culture sector led to major landmarks being named in his honor.
  • D. Charles A. Coffin
    Charles A. Coffin was an American businessman who became the first president of General Electric and played a pivotal role in shaping the early electric power industry.
  • E. Willis C. Hawley
    Willis C. Hawley was an American politician and U.S. Representative from Oregon best known for co-sponsoring the protectionist Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.
  • 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 A. Pitney
Triple: [Jane Darwell, spouse, William A. Pitney]
Generated description
William A. Pitney was the husband of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William A. Pitney
Target entity description: William A. Pitney was the husband of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
  • A. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • B. Samuel J. Kirkwood
    Samuel J. Kirkwood was a 19th-century American politician best known for serving as governor of Iowa and as a U.S. senator during the Civil War era.
  • C. John D. Nichols
    John D. Nichols is a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose contributions to the arts and culture sector led to major landmarks being named in his honor.
  • D. Charles A. Coffin
    Charles A. Coffin was an American businessman who became the first president of General Electric and played a pivotal role in shaping the early electric power industry.
  • E. Willis C. Hawley
    Willis C. Hawley was an American politician and U.S. Representative from Oregon best known for co-sponsoring the protectionist Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.
  • 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_69ab4b75cd908190b691ef0d1801acda completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdacffa6481909df37335e8fdd595 completed March 7, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c124d359ec819086420b7e00b8d630 completed March 23, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c12605b8148190967526967a8a1231 completed March 23, 2026, 11:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c126c641448190a826c213e8ab05af completed March 23, 2026, 11:40 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:56 p.m.