Triple

T802781
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Ford E17163 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
 E151870 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 McBride Smith | Statement: [John Ford, spouse, Mary McBride Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mary McBride Smith
Context triple: [John Ford, spouse, Mary McBride Smith]
  • A. Margaret Ann Dixon
    Margaret Ann Dixon is best known as the wife of acclaimed Canadian film director and producer Norman Jewison.
  • B. Lucille Wilson
    Lucille Wilson was the fourth wife of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, known for her long marriage to him and for preserving and promoting his legacy.
  • C. Josephine Stovall
    Josephine Stovall was the wife of James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.
  • D. Leola Brown
    Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
  • E. Gladys Louise Smith
    Gladys Louise Smith is the birth name of Mary Pickford, the pioneering Canadian-American silent film actress and producer known as "America's Sweetheart."
  • 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 McBride Smith
Triple: [John Ford, spouse, Mary McBride Smith]
Generated description
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mary McBride Smith
Target entity description: Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
  • A. Margaret Ann Dixon
    Margaret Ann Dixon is best known as the wife of acclaimed Canadian film director and producer Norman Jewison.
  • B. Lucille Wilson
    Lucille Wilson was the fourth wife of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, known for her long marriage to him and for preserving and promoting his legacy.
  • C. Josephine Stovall
    Josephine Stovall was the wife of James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.
  • D. Leola Brown
    Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
  • E. Gladys Louise Smith
    Gladys Louise Smith is the birth name of Mary Pickford, the pioneering Canadian-American silent film actress and producer known as "America's Sweetheart."
  • 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_69a49378b9c48190adbf5f62e5b7aca1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4aabd9fc081908ccadd8e8769de2d completed March 1, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acbf0330b4819089042160ff199336 completed March 8, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acbf873544819099d3dff98a6b2244 completed March 8, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc06483b08190b5b29f684b83f43f completed March 8, 2026, 12:18 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.