Triple
T8486083
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Lady in the Van |
E200834
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Miss Mary Shepherd |
E739824
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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, mainCharacter, 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, mainCharacter, Miss Mary Shepherd]
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A.
Miss Mary Shepherd
chosen
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."
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B.
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."
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C.
Martha Huggins
Martha Huggins is an actress best known for her role in the classic film "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
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D.
Mary Ann Pearce
Mary Ann Pearce is known as the wife of American crime novelist Mickey Spillane.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ce6d0a3abc8190a6fde29e728f15fe |
completed | April 2, 2026, 1:20 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:12 p.m.