Triple

T628799
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Witherspoon E15879 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Witherspoon
Witherspoon is a Scottish-origin surname borne by various notable figures in politics, entertainment, and sports.
 E78770 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: Witherspoon | Statement: [John Witherspoon, familyName, Witherspoon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Witherspoon
Context triple: [John Witherspoon, familyName, Witherspoon]
  • A. Katherine Puening
    Katherine Puening, better known as Kitty Oppenheimer, was a German-born American biologist and former Communist Party member who became the wife and close confidante of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
  • B. Paula Patton
    Paula Patton is an American actress known for her roles in films such as "Precious," "Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol," and various romantic comedies and dramas.
  • C. Glamorous Glennis
    Glamorous Glennis was the name Chuck Yeager gave to several of his aircraft, most famously the Bell X-1 rocket plane in which he first broke the sound barrier.
  • D. Elizabeth Root Luce
    Elizabeth Root Luce was the mother of influential American magazine publisher Henry Luce and a significant figure in his early life and upbringing.
  • E. Jennifer Ehle
    Jennifer Ehle is an award-winning English-American actress known for her acclaimed performances in film, television, and theatre, including her BAFTA-winning role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
  • 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: Witherspoon
Triple: [John Witherspoon, familyName, Witherspoon]
Generated description
Witherspoon is a Scottish-origin surname borne by various notable figures in politics, entertainment, and sports.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Witherspoon
Target entity description: Witherspoon is a Scottish-origin surname borne by various notable figures in politics, entertainment, and sports.
  • A. Katherine Puening
    Katherine Puening, better known as Kitty Oppenheimer, was a German-born American biologist and former Communist Party member who became the wife and close confidante of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
  • B. Paula Patton
    Paula Patton is an American actress known for her roles in films such as "Precious," "Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol," and various romantic comedies and dramas.
  • C. Glamorous Glennis
    Glamorous Glennis was the name Chuck Yeager gave to several of his aircraft, most famously the Bell X-1 rocket plane in which he first broke the sound barrier.
  • D. Elizabeth Root Luce
    Elizabeth Root Luce was the mother of influential American magazine publisher Henry Luce and a significant figure in his early life and upbringing.
  • E. Jennifer Ehle
    Jennifer Ehle is an award-winning English-American actress known for her acclaimed performances in film, television, and theatre, including her BAFTA-winning role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
  • 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_69a4935c131c8190a5378c6bf101e8cc completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49e5b5a308190a62165f9275e2f5f completed March 1, 2026, 8:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a56938be6481909a8eba01f5d856c1 completed March 2, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a569ec60a08190ad2f84dc20635621 completed March 2, 2026, 10:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a56a6d09cc8190959d8d2e7621041f completed March 2, 2026, 10:46 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.