Triple

T8577875
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Matthau E203092 entity
Predicate mother P120 FINISHED
Object Carol Marcus
Carol Marcus is the mother of American film director and actor Charles Matthau.
 E744151 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 Marcus | Statement: [Charles Matthau, mother, Carol Marcus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Carol Marcus
Context triple: [Charles Matthau, mother, Carol Marcus]
  • A. Carol Marcus
    Carol Marcus is best known as the former spouse of American writer and playwright William Saroyan.
  • B. Edith Weiss
    Edith Weiss is a notable individual recognized for bearing the surname Weiss, though specific widely known biographical or professional details about her are not well documented.
  • C. Helene Bresslau
    Helene Bresslau was a German-born nurse and social worker best known as the wife and close collaborator of theologian and humanitarian Albert Schweitzer, with whom she helped establish and run the hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon.
  • D. Ilse Löwenthal
    Ilse Löwenthal was a member of the Löwenthal family, known primarily through her relationship to Elsa Löwenthal, Albert Einstein’s second wife.
  • E. Margot Löwenthal
    Margot Löwenthal was the daughter of Elsa Löwenthal, who was Albert Einstein’s second wife and cousin.
  • 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 Marcus
Triple: [Charles Matthau, mother, Carol Marcus]
Generated description
Carol Marcus is the mother of American film director and actor Charles Matthau.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Carol Marcus
Target entity description: Carol Marcus is the mother of American film director and actor Charles Matthau.
  • A. Carol Marcus
    Carol Marcus is best known as the former spouse of American writer and playwright William Saroyan.
  • B. Edith Weiss
    Edith Weiss is a notable individual recognized for bearing the surname Weiss, though specific widely known biographical or professional details about her are not well documented.
  • C. Helene Bresslau
    Helene Bresslau was a German-born nurse and social worker best known as the wife and close collaborator of theologian and humanitarian Albert Schweitzer, with whom she helped establish and run the hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon.
  • D. Ilse Löwenthal
    Ilse Löwenthal was a member of the Löwenthal family, known primarily through her relationship to Elsa Löwenthal, Albert Einstein’s second wife.
  • E. Margot Löwenthal
    Margot Löwenthal was the daughter of Elsa Löwenthal, who was Albert Einstein’s second wife and cousin.
  • 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_69ca8328ebe481909a8c038fa79959b4 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbea989bec81909b8c8b4af7c568ff completed March 31, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce89a5d18c81908a21cf5e5944d6e1 completed April 2, 2026, 3:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce8ac1dba48190bbad47a762130aab completed April 2, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce8eae70008190b2c7bbe4ce8d4c0a completed April 2, 2026, 3:43 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:22 p.m.