Triple

T6428515
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jabez Howland E128119 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Bethiah Thacher
Bethiah Thacher was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as the wife of Mayflower descendant Jabez Howland.
E598808 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: Bethiah Thacher | Statement: [Jabez Howland, spouse, Bethiah Thacher]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bethiah Thacher
Context triple: [Jabez Howland, spouse, Bethiah Thacher]
  • A. Elizabeth Thacher Kent
    Elizabeth Thacher Kent was an American environmentalist and political activist best known for her pivotal role in the preservation of redwood forests and the creation of Muir Woods National Monument.
  • B. Molly Day Thacher
    Molly Day Thacher was an American stage actress and playwright best known as the longtime wife and creative partner of film and theater director Elia Kazan.
  • C. Esther Stoddard Edwards
    Esther Stoddard Edwards was the daughter of prominent American theologian Jonathan Edwards and a member of the influential Edwards-Stoddard New England clerical family.
  • D. Harriet Lothrop
    Harriet Lothrop, better known by her pen name Margaret Sidney, was an American author famed for her "Five Little Peppers" children's book series and as the preserver of The Wayside historic home in Concord, Massachusetts.
  • E. Annie M. Boughton
    Annie M. Boughton was the wife of American politician and first U.S. Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield.
  • 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: Bethiah Thacher
Triple: [Jabez Howland, spouse, Bethiah Thacher]
Generated description
Bethiah Thacher was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as the wife of Mayflower descendant Jabez Howland.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bethiah Thacher
Target entity description: Bethiah Thacher was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as the wife of Mayflower descendant Jabez Howland.
  • A. Elizabeth Thacher Kent
    Elizabeth Thacher Kent was an American environmentalist and political activist best known for her pivotal role in the preservation of redwood forests and the creation of Muir Woods National Monument.
  • B. Molly Day Thacher
    Molly Day Thacher was an American stage actress and playwright best known as the longtime wife and creative partner of film and theater director Elia Kazan.
  • C. Esther Stoddard Edwards
    Esther Stoddard Edwards was the daughter of prominent American theologian Jonathan Edwards and a member of the influential Edwards-Stoddard New England clerical family.
  • D. Harriet Lothrop
    Harriet Lothrop, better known by her pen name Margaret Sidney, was an American author famed for her "Five Little Peppers" children's book series and as the preserver of The Wayside historic home in Concord, Massachusetts.
  • E. Annie M. Boughton
    Annie M. Boughton was the wife of American politician and first U.S. Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield.
  • 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_69c00838de888190af2eec0b80495efa completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c06922a27881908c5571f2aa31e0c1 completed March 22, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c685748e808190a540d9f99cd58a8a completed March 27, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6994dafac819097586bd23aee35c4 completed March 27, 2026, 2:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6ac08698c8190b8a0a9625492353b completed March 27, 2026, 4:10 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:44 p.m.