Triple

T4806708
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Updike E106964 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Mary E. Pennington
Mary E. Pennington was the first wife of American novelist John Updike, whom he married in 1953 and with whom he had four children before their divorce in the 1970s.
E643032 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: Mary E. Pennington | Statement: [John Updike, spouse, Mary E. Pennington]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary E. Pennington
Context triple: [John Updike, spouse, Mary E. Pennington]
  • A. Mary Frances Reynolds
    Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
  • B. Mary M. Baker
    Mary M. Baker is an individual known primarily as an alternate name or identity for Mary Morse Baker.
  • C. Ann Pamela Cunningham
    Ann Pamela Cunningham was a 19th-century American preservationist best known for leading the effort to save George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate and founding the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association.
  • D. Margaret Whitmore
    Margaret Whitmore is best known as the wife of American physician-turned-thriller novelist Robin Cook.
  • E. Elizabeth Griscom
    Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
  • 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: Mary E. Pennington
Triple: [John Updike, spouse, Mary E. Pennington]
Generated description
Mary E. Pennington was the first wife of American novelist John Updike, whom he married in 1953 and with whom he had four children before their divorce in the 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary E. Pennington
Target entity description: Mary E. Pennington was the first wife of American novelist John Updike, whom he married in 1953 and with whom he had four children before their divorce in the 1970s.
  • A. Mary Frances Reynolds
    Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
  • B. Mary M. Baker
    Mary M. Baker is an individual known primarily as an alternate name or identity for Mary Morse Baker.
  • C. Ann Pamela Cunningham
    Ann Pamela Cunningham was a 19th-century American preservationist best known for leading the effort to save George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate and founding the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association.
  • D. Margaret Whitmore
    Margaret Whitmore is best known as the wife of American physician-turned-thriller novelist Robin Cook.
  • E. Elizabeth Griscom
    Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
  • 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_69bd43f6a1e08190bf0a372bfc336ee5 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6c69099c8190956b6df42bb922c8 completed March 20, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7a2ff2f2481908865e83841fc28d4 completed March 28, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7a3e11f648190adf7210cee954c3d completed March 28, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7a428dd048190a846bfb6d10b60e7 completed March 28, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:23 p.m.