Triple

T5787641
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dorothy Lamour E128307 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object William Ross Howard III
William Ross Howard III was the husband of American actress and singer Dorothy Lamour, known primarily for his marriage to the Hollywood star.
E603515 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: William Ross Howard III | Statement: [Dorothy Lamour, spouse, William Ross Howard III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Ross Howard III
Context triple: [Dorothy Lamour, spouse, William Ross Howard III]
  • A. Joseph Howard
    Joseph Howard is the screenwriter best known for writing the hit 1992 comedy film "Sister Act."
  • B. Frank Oliver Howard
    Frank Oliver Howard is the full name of Frank Howard, a notable American Major League Baseball slugger and outfielder/first baseman who played primarily in the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • C. William Draper Lewis
    William Draper Lewis was an American legal scholar and educator best known as the founding director of the American Law Institute and a leading figure in early 20th-century law reform.
  • D. Arthur J. Brown
    Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
  • E. Franklin H. Martin
    Franklin H. Martin was an American surgeon and medical leader best known for founding and guiding the development of the American College of Surgeons.
  • 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: William Ross Howard III
Triple: [Dorothy Lamour, spouse, William Ross Howard III]
Generated description
William Ross Howard III was the husband of American actress and singer Dorothy Lamour, known primarily for his marriage to the Hollywood star.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Ross Howard III
Target entity description: William Ross Howard III was the husband of American actress and singer Dorothy Lamour, known primarily for his marriage to the Hollywood star.
  • A. Joseph Howard
    Joseph Howard is the screenwriter best known for writing the hit 1992 comedy film "Sister Act."
  • B. Frank Oliver Howard
    Frank Oliver Howard is the full name of Frank Howard, a notable American Major League Baseball slugger and outfielder/first baseman who played primarily in the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • C. William Draper Lewis
    William Draper Lewis was an American legal scholar and educator best known as the founding director of the American Law Institute and a leading figure in early 20th-century law reform.
  • D. Arthur J. Brown
    Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
  • E. Franklin H. Martin
    Franklin H. Martin was an American surgeon and medical leader best known for founding and guiding the development of the American College of Surgeons.
  • 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_69c0084450048190bc647b649a05136b completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02a5297c88190bd28adb2552a26f4 completed March 22, 2026, 5:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6d4fa68c08190bb656aef231a9df0 completed March 27, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6d6aba9688190ada4f921768e314e completed March 27, 2026, 7:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6d82d77388190a3022a2366a5aec7 completed March 27, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:51 p.m.