Triple

T763839
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Steinbeck E16129 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Carol Henning
Carol Henning was the first wife of American author John Steinbeck, with whom he lived during his early, formative years as a writer.
 E237001 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: Carol Henning | Statement: [John Steinbeck, spouse, Carol Henning]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Carol Henning
Context triple: [John Steinbeck, spouse, Carol Henning]
  • A. Nancy Carlson
    Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
  • B. Carol Stevens
    Carol Stevens is best known as one of the former wives of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer.
  • C. Anne Marie Brenning
    Anne Marie Brenning was the second wife of actor Peter Lorre, known primarily for her marriage to the famed character actor.
  • D. Lyn Davis
    Lyn Davis is best known as the wife of influential American television writer and producer Norman Lear.
  • E. Emily Drinkard
    Emily Drinkard, better known as Cissy Houston, is an American soul and gospel singer and the mother of Whitney Houston.
  • 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: Carol Henning
Triple: [John Steinbeck, spouse, Carol Henning]
Generated description
Carol Henning was the first wife of American author John Steinbeck, with whom he lived during his early, formative years as a writer.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Carol Henning
Target entity description: Carol Henning was the first wife of American author John Steinbeck, with whom he lived during his early, formative years as a writer.
  • A. Nancy Carlson
    Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
  • B. Carol Stevens
    Carol Stevens is best known as one of the former wives of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer.
  • C. Anne Marie Brenning
    Anne Marie Brenning was the second wife of actor Peter Lorre, known primarily for her marriage to the famed character actor.
  • D. Lyn Davis
    Lyn Davis is best known as the wife of influential American television writer and producer Norman Lear.
  • E. Emily Drinkard
    Emily Drinkard, better known as Cissy Houston, is an American soul and gospel singer and the mother of Whitney Houston.
  • 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_69a493684ee48190bd43b7c78da4aec8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a69c8c448190a036a04fd8fdd2c2 completed March 1, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae51462e64819090dc5a0f200ee7a0 completed March 9, 2026, 4:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae522f0394819087a7e7d9c6ca354c completed March 9, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5316acf881908dde9d83c36c8fd0 completed March 9, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.