Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Lady in the Van E200834 entity
Predicate portrays P264 FINISHED
Object Miss Mary Shepherd
Miss Mary Shepherd is the eccentric, homeless elderly woman who lives in a van in Alan Bennett’s autobiographical story "The Lady in the Van."
E739824 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: Miss Mary Shepherd | Statement: [The Lady in the Van, portrays, Miss Mary Shepherd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Miss Mary Shepherd
Context triple: [The Lady in the Van, portrays, Miss Mary Shepherd]
  • A. Mabel McVey
    Mabel McVey is a British-Swedish pop and R&B singer and songwriter known for hits like "Don't Call Me Up" and "Mad Love."
  • B. Martha Huggins
    Martha Huggins is an actress best known for her role in the classic film "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
  • C. Mary Ann Pearce
    Mary Ann Pearce is known as the wife of American crime novelist Mickey Spillane.
  • D. Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
    Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
  • E. Margaret Adams
    Margaret Adams was the wife of British historian A. J. P. Taylor and a figure connected to mid-20th-century British intellectual and academic circles.
  • 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: Miss Mary Shepherd
Triple: [The Lady in the Van, portrays, Miss Mary Shepherd]
Generated description
Miss Mary Shepherd is the eccentric, homeless elderly woman who lives in a van in Alan Bennett’s autobiographical story "The Lady in the Van."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Miss Mary Shepherd
Target entity description: Miss Mary Shepherd is the eccentric, homeless elderly woman who lives in a van in Alan Bennett’s autobiographical story "The Lady in the Van."
  • A. Mabel McVey
    Mabel McVey is a British-Swedish pop and R&B singer and songwriter known for hits like "Don't Call Me Up" and "Mad Love."
  • B. Martha Huggins
    Martha Huggins is an actress best known for her role in the classic film "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
  • C. Mary Ann Pearce
    Mary Ann Pearce is known as the wife of American crime novelist Mickey Spillane.
  • D. Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
    Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
  • E. Margaret Adams
    Margaret Adams was the wife of British historian A. J. P. Taylor and a figure connected to mid-20th-century British intellectual and academic circles.
  • 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_69ca831d7b148190a6e32c1de43ab13b completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe53c4d608190a766c0e919a4b96f completed March 31, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce4df197c48190812c5287119e5528 completed April 2, 2026, 11:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce4ff668d4819081f4c3186437291b completed April 2, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce54cc52cc81908ca48c93956ca86e completed April 2, 2026, 11:36 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:12 p.m.