Triple

T4460949
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Shirley E98251 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Harriet Devereux
Harriet Devereux was a colonial-era woman known primarily as the wife of William Shirley, a British colonial administrator and governor of Massachusetts Bay.
E443123 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: Harriet Devereux | Statement: [William Shirley, spouse, Harriet Devereux]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harriet Devereux
Context triple: [William Shirley, spouse, Harriet Devereux]
  • A. Henrietta Temple
    Henrietta Temple is a romantic novel by Benjamin Disraeli, published in 1837, that explores themes of love, class, and social ambition in early Victorian England.
  • B. Henrietta Middleton
    Henrietta Middleton was a member of the prominent Middleton family of South Carolina and the wife of Edward Rutledge, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and later governor of South Carolina.
  • C. Elizabeth Wyndham
    Elizabeth Wyndham was an 18th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of Prime Minister George Grenville and a member of the influential Wyndham political family.
  • D. Honora Sneyd
    Honora Sneyd was an 18th-century English gentlewoman best known as the beloved second wife of inventor and educational reformer Richard Lovell Edgeworth and as a model for some of the female characters in his daughter Maria Edgeworth’s writings.
  • E. Eleanor Witcombe
    Eleanor Witcombe was an Australian screenwriter and playwright known for her influential adaptations and contributions to Australian film, television, and radio drama.
  • 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: Harriet Devereux
Triple: [William Shirley, spouse, Harriet Devereux]
Generated description
Harriet Devereux was a colonial-era woman known primarily as the wife of William Shirley, a British colonial administrator and governor of Massachusetts Bay.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harriet Devereux
Target entity description: Harriet Devereux was a colonial-era woman known primarily as the wife of William Shirley, a British colonial administrator and governor of Massachusetts Bay.
  • A. Henrietta Temple
    Henrietta Temple is a romantic novel by Benjamin Disraeli, published in 1837, that explores themes of love, class, and social ambition in early Victorian England.
  • B. Henrietta Middleton
    Henrietta Middleton was a member of the prominent Middleton family of South Carolina and the wife of Edward Rutledge, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and later governor of South Carolina.
  • C. Elizabeth Wyndham
    Elizabeth Wyndham was an 18th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of Prime Minister George Grenville and a member of the influential Wyndham political family.
  • D. Honora Sneyd
    Honora Sneyd was an 18th-century English gentlewoman best known as the beloved second wife of inventor and educational reformer Richard Lovell Edgeworth and as a model for some of the female characters in his daughter Maria Edgeworth’s writings.
  • E. Eleanor Witcombe
    Eleanor Witcombe was an Australian screenwriter and playwright known for her influential adaptations and contributions to Australian film, television, and radio drama.
  • 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_69b3454a7c608190944f5455c8031d73 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b35673337c8190b923159791ec27e3 completed March 13, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b6284431c48190aa1553ff89f2239f completed March 15, 2026, 3:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b629532cac8190b959adc0ef13305a completed March 15, 2026, 3:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b62d9c287c8190a305f9d21517f913 completed March 15, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:34 p.m.