Triple

T931760
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir Thomas Fairfax E20107 entity
Predicate mother P120 FINISHED
Object Ellen Aske
Ellen Aske was an English gentlewoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Parliamentarian general Sir Thomas Fairfax.
E109649 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: Ellen Aske | Statement: [Sir Thomas Fairfax, mother, Ellen Aske]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellen Aske
Context triple: [Sir Thomas Fairfax, mother, Ellen Aske]
  • A. Margery Durant
    Margery Durant was an American author and socialite best known for her memoir about her father, General Motors founder William C. Durant, and for her involvement in early 20th-century automotive and aviation culture.
  • B. Martha Rainsborough
    Martha Rainsborough was the wife of early Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop and a member of the prominent Rainsborough family in 17th-century England.
  • C. Margaret Tyndal
    Margaret Tyndal was the second wife of Puritan leader and Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop, known primarily through her connection to his prominent colonial and religious role.
  • D. Sarah Osborne
    Sarah Osborne was one of the first women accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
  • E. Mary Walsingham
    Mary Walsingham was an English gentlewoman of the 16th century, known primarily as the wife of statesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Walter Mildmay.
  • 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: Ellen Aske
Triple: [Sir Thomas Fairfax, mother, Ellen Aske]
Generated description
Ellen Aske was an English gentlewoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Parliamentarian general Sir Thomas Fairfax.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellen Aske
Target entity description: Ellen Aske was an English gentlewoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Parliamentarian general Sir Thomas Fairfax.
  • A. Margery Durant
    Margery Durant was an American author and socialite best known for her memoir about her father, General Motors founder William C. Durant, and for her involvement in early 20th-century automotive and aviation culture.
  • B. Martha Rainsborough
    Martha Rainsborough was the wife of early Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop and a member of the prominent Rainsborough family in 17th-century England.
  • C. Margaret Tyndal
    Margaret Tyndal was the second wife of Puritan leader and Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop, known primarily through her connection to his prominent colonial and religious role.
  • D. Sarah Osborne
    Sarah Osborne was one of the first women accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
  • E. Mary Walsingham
    Mary Walsingham was an English gentlewoman of the 16th century, known primarily as the wife of statesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Walter Mildmay.
  • 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_69a493af3dc48190adb7263e6e445ea1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b34b302c81908fa32cb18f551493 completed March 1, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7ee1108188190a26c73864c697061 completed March 4, 2026, 8:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7f1a1214481909538745d5713e402 completed March 4, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7f2303534819094ae764b20d223ee completed March 4, 2026, 8:49 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.