Triple

T7588248
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sally Hemings E179669 entity
Predicate mother P120 FINISHED
Object Betty Hemings
Betty Hemings was an enslaved woman at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and the matriarch of the influential Hemings family, whose descendants played a significant role in American history.
 E676262 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: Betty Hemings | Statement: [Sally Hemings, mother, Betty Hemings]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Betty Hemings
Context triple: [Sally Hemings, mother, Betty Hemings]
  • A. Sally Hemings
    Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by Thomas Jefferson, widely believed to have had a long-term intimate relationship and several children with him at Monticello.
  • B. Beverly Hemings
    Beverly Hemings was one of the mixed-race children of Sally Hemings, historically associated with Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and the broader Hemings-Jefferson family legacy.
  • C. Henrietta Wilson
    Henrietta "Hen" Wilson is a compassionate and skilled Los Angeles Fire Department paramedic and member of the 118, featured as a central character on the television series 9-1-1.
  • D. Maria Jackson
    Maria Jackson is a companion of investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith in the Doctor Who spin-off series "The Sarah Jane Adventures."
  • E. Anna Jackson
    Anna Jackson was the wife of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson and a 19th-century American woman known for preserving and promoting her husband's legacy after his death.
  • 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: Betty Hemings
Triple: [Sally Hemings, mother, Betty Hemings]
Generated description
Betty Hemings was an enslaved woman at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and the matriarch of the influential Hemings family, whose descendants played a significant role in American history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Betty Hemings
Target entity description: Betty Hemings was an enslaved woman at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and the matriarch of the influential Hemings family, whose descendants played a significant role in American history.
  • A. Sally Hemings
    Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by Thomas Jefferson, widely believed to have had a long-term intimate relationship and several children with him at Monticello.
  • B. Beverly Hemings
    Beverly Hemings was one of the mixed-race children of Sally Hemings, historically associated with Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and the broader Hemings-Jefferson family legacy.
  • C. Henrietta Wilson
    Henrietta "Hen" Wilson is a compassionate and skilled Los Angeles Fire Department paramedic and member of the 118, featured as a central character on the television series 9-1-1.
  • D. Maria Jackson
    Maria Jackson is a companion of investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith in the Doctor Who spin-off series "The Sarah Jane Adventures."
  • E. Anna Jackson
    Anna Jackson was the wife of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson and a 19th-century American woman known for preserving and promoting her husband's legacy after his death.
  • 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_69c69f335248819093c1006f30513708 completed March 27, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f99875908190b09584cf13ea1e08 completed March 27, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c86840abc08190b7ca9fb8e2968311 completed March 28, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c868fb7fe48190a1b7ab0e824e2984 completed March 28, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8697782d48190a6830f91800d3505 completed March 28, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:52 p.m.