Triple

T6042921
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stephen Foster E134591 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Jane Denny McDowell
Jane Denny McDowell was the wife and muse of American songwriter Stephen Foster, traditionally associated with inspiring his famous song "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair."
E691437 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: Jane Denny McDowell | Statement: [Stephen Foster, spouse, Jane Denny McDowell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jane Denny McDowell
Context triple: [Stephen Foster, spouse, Jane Denny McDowell]
  • A. Elizabeth McDowell
    Elizabeth McDowell was the wife of American Regionalist painter and muralist Thomas Hart Benton.
  • B. Susan Jane Dillingham
    Susan Jane Dillingham, better known by her stage name Samantha Lewes, was an American actress and the first wife of actor Tom Hanks.
  • C. Margaret Davenport
    Margaret Davenport is the mother of American actor Emile Hirsch.
  • D. Martha Craig Daughtrey
    Martha Craig Daughtrey is an American jurist who served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and is known for her influential opinions on civil rights and constitutional law.
  • E. Jane Stoddard Williams
    Jane Stoddard Williams is an American television producer and journalist, best known for her work in public radio and as the wife of news anchor Brian Williams.
  • 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: Jane Denny McDowell
Triple: [Stephen Foster, spouse, Jane Denny McDowell]
Generated description
Jane Denny McDowell was the wife and muse of American songwriter Stephen Foster, traditionally associated with inspiring his famous song "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jane Denny McDowell
Target entity description: Jane Denny McDowell was the wife and muse of American songwriter Stephen Foster, traditionally associated with inspiring his famous song "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair."
  • A. Elizabeth McDowell
    Elizabeth McDowell was the wife of American Regionalist painter and muralist Thomas Hart Benton.
  • B. Susan Jane Dillingham
    Susan Jane Dillingham, better known by her stage name Samantha Lewes, was an American actress and the first wife of actor Tom Hanks.
  • C. Margaret Davenport
    Margaret Davenport is the mother of American actor Emile Hirsch.
  • D. Martha Craig Daughtrey
    Martha Craig Daughtrey is an American jurist who served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and is known for her influential opinions on civil rights and constitutional law.
  • E. Jane Stoddard Williams
    Jane Stoddard Williams is an American television producer and journalist, best known for her work in public radio and as the wife of news anchor Brian Williams.
  • 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_69c00876a69881908088a2626d3b2666 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c056e108fc81908775d176ff960fad completed March 22, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c9855a13d4819099ee6bf89566291f completed March 29, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c986dfa0f8819086aee2d6c657e5d6 completed March 29, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c9872e1cf881908bafc6f532502765 completed March 29, 2026, 8:10 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:08 p.m.