Triple
T2952976
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Shirley Williams |
E79864
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams
Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams was a prominent British Labour and later Liberal Democrat politician, academic, and co-founder of the Social Democratic Party.
|
E315099
|
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: Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams | Statement: [Shirley Williams, fullName, Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams Context triple: [Shirley Williams, fullName, Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams]
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A.
Vera Brittain
Vera Brittain was an English writer, feminist, and pacifist best known for her World War I memoir "Testament of Youth," which chronicles her experiences as a nurse and the war’s personal and social devastation.
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B.
Mary Jane Ward
Mary Jane Ward was an American novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical work "The Snake Pit," which exposed the harsh realities of mid-20th-century psychiatric institutions.
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C.
Elizabeth Hodgkin
Elizabeth Hodgkin is the daughter of Nobel Prize–winning chemist and crystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin.
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D.
Margaret Fay Shaw
Margaret Fay Shaw was an American-born folklorist, photographer, and collector of Scottish Gaelic song and culture, renowned for her influential work documenting the traditions of the Hebrides.
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E.
Elinor Mead
Elinor Mead was an American artist and intellectual known as the wife and close collaborator of novelist and critic William Dean Howells.
- 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: Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams Triple: [Shirley Williams, fullName, Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams]
Generated description
Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams was a prominent British Labour and later Liberal Democrat politician, academic, and co-founder of the Social Democratic Party.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams Target entity description: Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams was a prominent British Labour and later Liberal Democrat politician, academic, and co-founder of the Social Democratic Party.
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A.
Vera Brittain
Vera Brittain was an English writer, feminist, and pacifist best known for her World War I memoir "Testament of Youth," which chronicles her experiences as a nurse and the war’s personal and social devastation.
-
B.
Mary Jane Ward
Mary Jane Ward was an American novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical work "The Snake Pit," which exposed the harsh realities of mid-20th-century psychiatric institutions.
-
C.
Elizabeth Hodgkin
Elizabeth Hodgkin is the daughter of Nobel Prize–winning chemist and crystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin.
-
D.
Margaret Fay Shaw
Margaret Fay Shaw was an American-born folklorist, photographer, and collector of Scottish Gaelic song and culture, renowned for her influential work documenting the traditions of the Hebrides.
-
E.
Elinor Mead
Elinor Mead was an American artist and intellectual known as the wife and close collaborator of novelist and critic William Dean Howells.
- 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_69ad8b1276588190a374a0b12e0f7bdf |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ad98fe4b688190a0f68c4f80cd6f8f |
completed | March 8, 2026, 3:42 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b0fc82d1248190869beffffc0bf956 |
completed | March 11, 2026, 5:24 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b0fd25e07c819088b2b1bcef4cf54e |
completed | March 11, 2026, 5:27 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b100ecbee081908832ddec0efdc751 |
completed | March 11, 2026, 5:43 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:57 p.m.