Triple

T665990
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Phylicia Rashad E12861 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object William Lancelot Bowles Jr.
William Lancelot Bowles Jr. is best known as the first husband of actress and director Phylicia Rashad.
E82239 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: William Lancelot Bowles Jr. | Statement: [Phylicia Rashad, spouse, William Lancelot Bowles Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lancelot Bowles Jr.
Context triple: [Phylicia Rashad, spouse, William Lancelot Bowles Jr.]
  • A. Thomas Belsham
    Thomas Belsham was an English Unitarian minister, theologian, and biblical scholar known for his influential role in late 18th- and early 19th-century rational dissent.
  • B. Rufus Pollock
    Rufus Pollock is a British economist, technologist, and open data advocate best known as a co-founder and leading figure in the global open knowledge and open government data movements.
  • C. Samuel Garbett
    Samuel Garbett was an 18th-century English industrialist and merchant from Birmingham, known for his role in the early chemical industry and his involvement in the influential Lunar Society.
  • D. Bartholomew Gedney
    Bartholomew Gedney was a colonial Massachusetts magistrate best known for serving as one of the judges during the Salem witch trials of 1692.
  • E. Sidney Smith
    Sidney Smith was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his daring defense of Acre against Napoleon during the French campaign in the Eastern Mediterranean.
  • 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: William Lancelot Bowles Jr.
Triple: [Phylicia Rashad, spouse, William Lancelot Bowles Jr.]
Generated description
William Lancelot Bowles Jr. is best known as the first husband of actress and director Phylicia Rashad.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lancelot Bowles Jr.
Target entity description: William Lancelot Bowles Jr. is best known as the first husband of actress and director Phylicia Rashad.
  • A. Thomas Belsham
    Thomas Belsham was an English Unitarian minister, theologian, and biblical scholar known for his influential role in late 18th- and early 19th-century rational dissent.
  • B. Rufus Pollock
    Rufus Pollock is a British economist, technologist, and open data advocate best known as a co-founder and leading figure in the global open knowledge and open government data movements.
  • C. Samuel Garbett
    Samuel Garbett was an 18th-century English industrialist and merchant from Birmingham, known for his role in the early chemical industry and his involvement in the influential Lunar Society.
  • D. Bartholomew Gedney
    Bartholomew Gedney was a colonial Massachusetts magistrate best known for serving as one of the judges during the Salem witch trials of 1692.
  • E. Sidney Smith
    Sidney Smith was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his daring defense of Acre against Napoleon during the French campaign in the Eastern Mediterranean.
  • 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_69a493355dec819098d4244b2fa34885 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49fd4f4988190a0973ceb7329b4c9 completed March 1, 2026, 8:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5c39abcbc819093797700dc32d25a completed March 2, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5c564d368819082b877f43236d949 completed March 2, 2026, 5:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5cca1851c81908e57e75dc217e517 completed March 2, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.