Triple

T6794964
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Edgar Herold E156030 entity
Predicate parent P120 FINISHED
Object Mary Ann Porter Herold
Mary Ann Porter Herold was the mother of David Herold, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
E619727 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: Mary Ann Porter Herold | Statement: [David Edgar Herold, parent, Mary Ann Porter Herold]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Ann Porter Herold
Context triple: [David Edgar Herold, parent, Mary Ann Porter Herold]
  • A. Mary Alice Herold
    Mary Alice Herold is known primarily as the sister of David Herold, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
  • B. Anna Surratt
    Anna Surratt was the daughter of Lincoln assassination conspirator Mary Surratt, known for her efforts to plead for her mother's life before the execution.
  • C. Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
    Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, better known as Bess Truman, was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman.
  • D. John Harrison Surratt Sr.
    John Harrison Surratt Sr. was an American innkeeper and Confederate sympathizer whose family, including his wife Mary Surratt and son John Jr., became deeply entangled in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
  • E. Clementina Shorter
    Clementina Shorter was the wife of British journalist and literary critic Clement Shorter, associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century English literary scene.
  • 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: Mary Ann Porter Herold
Triple: [David Edgar Herold, parent, Mary Ann Porter Herold]
Generated description
Mary Ann Porter Herold was the mother of David Herold, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Ann Porter Herold
Target entity description: Mary Ann Porter Herold was the mother of David Herold, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
  • A. Mary Alice Herold
    Mary Alice Herold is known primarily as the sister of David Herold, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
  • B. Anna Surratt
    Anna Surratt was the daughter of Lincoln assassination conspirator Mary Surratt, known for her efforts to plead for her mother's life before the execution.
  • C. Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
    Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, better known as Bess Truman, was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman.
  • D. John Harrison Surratt Sr.
    John Harrison Surratt Sr. was an American innkeeper and Confederate sympathizer whose family, including his wife Mary Surratt and son John Jr., became deeply entangled in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
  • E. Clementina Shorter
    Clementina Shorter was the wife of British journalist and literary critic Clement Shorter, associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century English literary scene.
  • 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_69c6881844448190a65822d9b39d7f88 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d2c6e7dc8190b1f33372d047baba completed March 27, 2026, 6:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c71a9354448190890846c2e84bb22c completed March 28, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c71c57e29481908ffa5a1918c46dfa completed March 28, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c71ce85c4c8190ac894259de0a3341 completed March 28, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:15 p.m.