Triple

T580098
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Katharine Hepburn E15036 entity
Predicate parent P120 FINISHED
Object Thomas Norval Hepburn
Thomas Norval Hepburn was an American urologist and social reformer best known as the father of acclaimed actress Katharine Hepburn.
E163684 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: Thomas Norval Hepburn | Statement: [Katharine Hepburn, parent, Thomas Norval Hepburn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Norval Hepburn
Context triple: [Katharine Hepburn, parent, Thomas Norval Hepburn]
  • A. Horace Tabberer Brown
    Horace Tabberer Brown was a prominent British brewing chemist and researcher known for his pioneering work in fermentation science and the chemistry of beer.
  • B. Robert Hepburn
    Robert Hepburn was the brother of acclaimed American actress Katharine Hepburn and a member of the prominent Hepburn family.
  • C. Harold Briggs
    Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
  • D. William Irwin
    William Irwin was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of California from 1875 to 1880.
  • E. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • 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: Thomas Norval Hepburn
Triple: [Katharine Hepburn, parent, Thomas Norval Hepburn]
Generated description
Thomas Norval Hepburn was an American urologist and social reformer best known as the father of acclaimed actress Katharine Hepburn.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Norval Hepburn
Target entity description: Thomas Norval Hepburn was an American urologist and social reformer best known as the father of acclaimed actress Katharine Hepburn.
  • A. Horace Tabberer Brown
    Horace Tabberer Brown was a prominent British brewing chemist and researcher known for his pioneering work in fermentation science and the chemistry of beer.
  • B. Robert Hepburn
    Robert Hepburn was the brother of acclaimed American actress Katharine Hepburn and a member of the prominent Hepburn family.
  • C. Harold Briggs
    Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
  • D. William Irwin
    William Irwin was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of California from 1875 to 1880.
  • E. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • 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_69a4935783b8819082b77726ec10cc42 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49b82b5248190ac863407e8207a3b completed March 1, 2026, 8:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad012ce1148190b1051239a44171b1 completed March 8, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad01eb335c81908775e89b8a0348cc completed March 8, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad029584308190af10520e928f890b completed March 8, 2026, 5:01 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.