Triple

T3163596
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William M. Evarts E66156 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Helen Minerva Wardner
Helen Minerva Wardner was the wife of prominent American lawyer and statesman William M. Evarts, who served as U.S. Secretary of State and Attorney General in the 19th century.
E334240 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: Helen Minerva Wardner | Statement: [William M. Evarts, spouse, Helen Minerva Wardner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Helen Minerva Wardner
Context triple: [William M. Evarts, spouse, Helen Minerva Wardner]
  • A. Elinor Mead
    Elinor Mead was an American artist and intellectual known as the wife and close collaborator of novelist and critic William Dean Howells.
  • B. Elinor Monsell
    Elinor Monsell was an Irish-born artist and illustrator known for her bookplates, wood engravings, and contributions to early 20th-century book design.
  • C. Helen Gardner
    Helen Gardner is a noted literary scholar and critic, best known for her influential work on English poetry and Renaissance literature.
  • D. Helen Adam
    Helen Adam was a Scottish-born American poet and collagist whose ballad-style verse and gothic sensibility made her a distinctive figure in mid-20th-century avant-garde poetry circles.
  • E. Helen Marian Lamb Lilienthal
    Helen Marian Lamb Lilienthal was the wife of prominent American public administrator and TVA chairman David E. Lilienthal.
  • 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: Helen Minerva Wardner
Triple: [William M. Evarts, spouse, Helen Minerva Wardner]
Generated description
Helen Minerva Wardner was the wife of prominent American lawyer and statesman William M. Evarts, who served as U.S. Secretary of State and Attorney General in the 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Helen Minerva Wardner
Target entity description: Helen Minerva Wardner was the wife of prominent American lawyer and statesman William M. Evarts, who served as U.S. Secretary of State and Attorney General in the 19th century.
  • A. Elinor Mead
    Elinor Mead was an American artist and intellectual known as the wife and close collaborator of novelist and critic William Dean Howells.
  • B. Elinor Monsell
    Elinor Monsell was an Irish-born artist and illustrator known for her bookplates, wood engravings, and contributions to early 20th-century book design.
  • C. Helen Gardner
    Helen Gardner is a noted literary scholar and critic, best known for her influential work on English poetry and Renaissance literature.
  • D. Helen Adam
    Helen Adam was a Scottish-born American poet and collagist whose ballad-style verse and gothic sensibility made her a distinctive figure in mid-20th-century avant-garde poetry circles.
  • E. Helen Marian Lamb Lilienthal
    Helen Marian Lamb Lilienthal was the wife of prominent American public administrator and TVA chairman David E. Lilienthal.
  • 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_69ad85850c1481908a9e9c6242238de2 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada61a4b8481908897a8d39d94c2f4 completed March 8, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b235d823948190b1fbe0dbf303133d completed March 12, 2026, 3:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b239bac9c48190b38fd7fa59b4c061 completed March 12, 2026, 3:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b23a0dcb7c819080a89f08948aff3a completed March 12, 2026, 3:59 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:06 p.m.