Triple
T6100936
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Carroll Ballard |
E135991
|
entity |
| Predicate | spouse |
P13
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Kit Ballard
Kit Ballard is the spouse of American film director Carroll Ballard, known for his visually striking, nature-focused movies.
|
E569899
|
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: Kit Ballard | Statement: [Carroll Ballard, spouse, Kit Ballard]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kit Ballard Context triple: [Carroll Ballard, spouse, Kit Ballard]
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A.
Dana Ballard
Dana Ballard is an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist known for his pioneering work in computational vision and models of human perception and cognition.
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B.
Kim Keever
Kim Keever is an American artist and photographer known for his large-scale, otherworldly landscape images created by photographing paint and materials suspended in water.
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C.
Pat McCormick
Pat McCormick was an American comedian and television writer known for his work on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" and appearances in films and TV comedies.
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D.
Kaye Ballard
Kaye Ballard was an American comic actress and singer known for her work on stage, television, and in musical comedy from the 1950s onward.
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E.
Kelly Dombrowski
Kelly Dombrowski is an individual notable for bearing the surname Dombrowski, though specific widely recognized public achievements or roles are not well documented.
- 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: Kit Ballard Triple: [Carroll Ballard, spouse, Kit Ballard]
Generated description
Kit Ballard is the spouse of American film director Carroll Ballard, known for his visually striking, nature-focused movies.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kit Ballard Target entity description: Kit Ballard is the spouse of American film director Carroll Ballard, known for his visually striking, nature-focused movies.
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A.
Dana Ballard
Dana Ballard is an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist known for his pioneering work in computational vision and models of human perception and cognition.
-
B.
Kim Keever
Kim Keever is an American artist and photographer known for his large-scale, otherworldly landscape images created by photographing paint and materials suspended in water.
-
C.
Pat McCormick
Pat McCormick was an American comedian and television writer known for his work on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" and appearances in films and TV comedies.
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D.
Kaye Ballard
Kaye Ballard was an American comic actress and singer known for her work on stage, television, and in musical comedy from the 1950s onward.
-
E.
Kelly Dombrowski
Kelly Dombrowski is an individual notable for bearing the surname Dombrowski, though specific widely recognized public achievements or roles are not well documented.
- 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_69c0087dee9881909e3655be88208c01 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c05b3aa9908190865be98ada141d37 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:12 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c1254b963081908e8e45968a7b29aa |
completed | March 23, 2026, 11:34 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c129464108819086b1a3991ef4c9e1 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 11:51 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c129d7cd348190963e1a266d5e88ae |
completed | March 23, 2026, 11:53 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:13 p.m.