Triple

T844296
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mary Todd Lincoln E18243 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Robert Smith Todd
Robert Smith Todd was a prominent Kentucky businessman and politician of the early 19th century, best known as the father of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
E104363 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: Robert Smith Todd | Statement: [Mary Todd Lincoln, father, Robert Smith Todd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Smith Todd
Context triple: [Mary Todd Lincoln, father, Robert Smith Todd]
  • A. William Burnet Tuthill
    William Burnet Tuthill was an American architect best known for designing New York City's renowned concert venue Carnegie Hall.
  • B. Henry Wheaton
    Henry Wheaton was a 19th-century American jurist, diplomat, and pioneering scholar of international law whose writings significantly shaped the field.
  • C. Benjamin Wade
    Benjamin Wade was a prominent 19th-century American politician and leading Radical Republican senator known for his strong anti-slavery stance and advocacy of harsh Reconstruction policies toward the former Confederate states.
  • D. Cushman K. Davis
    Cushman K. Davis was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota and played a key role in foreign affairs at the turn of the 20th century.
  • E. John A. Wilson
    John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
  • 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: Robert Smith Todd
Triple: [Mary Todd Lincoln, father, Robert Smith Todd]
Generated description
Robert Smith Todd was a prominent Kentucky businessman and politician of the early 19th century, best known as the father of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Smith Todd
Target entity description: Robert Smith Todd was a prominent Kentucky businessman and politician of the early 19th century, best known as the father of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
  • A. William Burnet Tuthill
    William Burnet Tuthill was an American architect best known for designing New York City's renowned concert venue Carnegie Hall.
  • B. Henry Wheaton
    Henry Wheaton was a 19th-century American jurist, diplomat, and pioneering scholar of international law whose writings significantly shaped the field.
  • C. Benjamin Wade
    Benjamin Wade was a prominent 19th-century American politician and leading Radical Republican senator known for his strong anti-slavery stance and advocacy of harsh Reconstruction policies toward the former Confederate states.
  • D. Cushman K. Davis
    Cushman K. Davis was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota and played a key role in foreign affairs at the turn of the 20th century.
  • E. John A. Wilson
    John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
  • 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_69a4938b04208190b82e1df6b572c548 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac09249c8190a8099b94a3c9e2cc completed March 1, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7b8472f188190b470893c76b20ccf completed March 4, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7bc1acf708190aa86cd5eca101966 completed March 4, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7bc96dd2881909310147292b99023 completed March 4, 2026, 5:01 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.