Triple

T4352346
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex E98055 entity
Predicate mother P120 FINISHED
Object Frances Walsingham
Frances Walsingham was an English noblewoman, daughter of Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and widow of Sir Philip Sidney, who later married Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.
E435351 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: Frances Walsingham | Statement: [Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, mother, Frances Walsingham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frances Walsingham
Context triple: [Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, mother, Frances Walsingham]
  • A. Elizabeth Popham
    Elizabeth Popham was an English gentlewoman of the 18th century best known as the mother of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a prominent British statesman.
  • B. Sir Francis Walsingham
    Sir Francis Walsingham was Queen Elizabeth I’s principal secretary and spymaster, renowned for building an extensive intelligence network that protected England from internal and external threats.
  • C. Frances Howard
    Frances Howard was an American stage and film actress of the early 20th century who later became known as the wife of producer Samuel Goldwyn and the mother of film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
  • D. Frances Howard, Countess of Essex
    Frances Howard, Countess of Essex, was a prominent early 17th-century English noblewoman best known for her scandalous annulment from the Earl of Essex and subsequent marriage to King James I’s favorite, Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset.
  • E. Mary Walsingham
    Mary Walsingham was an English gentlewoman of the 16th century, known primarily as the wife of statesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Walter Mildmay.
  • 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: Frances Walsingham
Triple: [Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, mother, Frances Walsingham]
Generated description
Frances Walsingham was an English noblewoman, daughter of Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and widow of Sir Philip Sidney, who later married Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frances Walsingham
Target entity description: Frances Walsingham was an English noblewoman, daughter of Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and widow of Sir Philip Sidney, who later married Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.
  • A. Elizabeth Popham
    Elizabeth Popham was an English gentlewoman of the 18th century best known as the mother of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a prominent British statesman.
  • B. Sir Francis Walsingham
    Sir Francis Walsingham was Queen Elizabeth I’s principal secretary and spymaster, renowned for building an extensive intelligence network that protected England from internal and external threats.
  • C. Frances Howard
    Frances Howard was an American stage and film actress of the early 20th century who later became known as the wife of producer Samuel Goldwyn and the mother of film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
  • D. Frances Howard, Countess of Essex
    Frances Howard, Countess of Essex, was a prominent early 17th-century English noblewoman best known for her scandalous annulment from the Earl of Essex and subsequent marriage to King James I’s favorite, Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset.
  • E. Mary Walsingham
    Mary Walsingham was an English gentlewoman of the 16th century, known primarily as the wife of statesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Walter Mildmay.
  • 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_69b3454965f881908c41190bb22f0e4b completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b351ab03488190a8900de98fb4a00e completed March 12, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e4fdee688190806edebd05a23570 completed March 14, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5e5e96aac819093c43dc355de4509 completed March 14, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5e6587be88190884f61a7350ce5a9 completed March 14, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:15 p.m.