Triple
T941009
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Mary Anna Custis Lee |
E20304
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entity |
| Predicate | mother |
P120
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis was an American plantation mistress and prominent Virginia aristocrat of the early 19th century, known for her role in the influential Custis-Lee family and her philanthropic and religious activities.
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E20304
|
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: Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis | Statement: [Mary Anna Custis Lee, mother, Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis Context triple: [Mary Anna Custis Lee, mother, Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis]
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A.
Mary Anna Custis Lee
Mary Anna Custis Lee was the wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, known as a prominent 19th-century Virginia aristocrat and plantation mistress.
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B.
George Washington Parke Custis
George Washington Parke Custis was an American plantation owner, writer, and orator best known as the step-grandson of George and Martha Washington and the builder of Arlington House, later Arlington National Cemetery.
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C.
Varina Howell Davis
Varina Howell Davis was an American writer and the second wife of Jefferson Davis, serving as First Lady of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
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D.
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, better known as Bess Truman, was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman.
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E.
Martha Washington
Martha Washington was the first First Lady of the United States, a wealthy widow who managed large estates and played a key role as a social and political hostess during George Washington’s leadership.
- 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: Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis Triple: [Mary Anna Custis Lee, mother, Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis]
Generated description
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis was an American plantation mistress and prominent Virginia aristocrat of the early 19th century, known for her role in the influential Custis-Lee family and her philanthropic and religious activities.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis Target entity description: Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis was an American plantation mistress and prominent Virginia aristocrat of the early 19th century, known for her role in the influential Custis-Lee family and her philanthropic and religious activities.
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A.
Mary Anna Custis Lee
chosen
Mary Anna Custis Lee was the wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, known as a prominent 19th-century Virginia aristocrat and plantation mistress.
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B.
George Washington Parke Custis
George Washington Parke Custis was an American plantation owner, writer, and orator best known as the step-grandson of George and Martha Washington and the builder of Arlington House, later Arlington National Cemetery.
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C.
Varina Howell Davis
Varina Howell Davis was an American writer and the second wife of Jefferson Davis, serving as First Lady of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
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D.
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, better known as Bess Truman, was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman.
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E.
Martha Washington
Martha Washington was the first First Lady of the United States, a wealthy widow who managed large estates and played a key role as a social and political hostess during George Washington’s leadership.
- F. None of above.
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_69a493b0270c81909e6c9ce310f6aa55 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4b38cc6888190b1d9043ec8fbcbc3 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:45 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac1cd569a4819082687be40145331e |
completed | March 7, 2026, 12:40 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ac1dc3ba18819093f2707f8869887c |
completed | March 7, 2026, 12:44 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ac1e370bcc819089ebd997b9b15f2e |
completed | March 7, 2026, 12:46 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.