Triple

T961056
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joseph E. Sheffield E20735 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Maria St. John Sheffield
Maria St. John Sheffield was the wife of American railroad executive and philanthropist Joseph E. Sheffield, associated with 19th-century New England society.
E164253 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: Maria St. John Sheffield | Statement: [Joseph E. Sheffield, spouse, Maria St. John Sheffield]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maria St. John Sheffield
Context triple: [Joseph E. Sheffield, spouse, Maria St. John Sheffield]
  • A. Fanny Robarts
    Fanny Robarts is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Framley Parsonage," depicted as the sensible and devoted wife of the ambitious clergyman Mark Robarts.
  • B. Sarah Whetstone
    Sarah Whetstone was the wife of English privateer and colonial governor Woodes Rogers, known primarily through her marriage into his prominent seafaring and political life.
  • C. Katherine Rogers
    Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
  • D. Martha Vickers
    Martha Vickers was an American film and television actress best known for her role as Carmen Sternwood in the classic noir film "The Big Sleep" (1946).
  • E. Karen Richards
    Karen Richards is a key character in the classic film "All About Eve," a theater insider whose friendship and decisions help drive the story’s backstage drama and betrayal.
  • 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: Maria St. John Sheffield
Triple: [Joseph E. Sheffield, spouse, Maria St. John Sheffield]
Generated description
Maria St. John Sheffield was the wife of American railroad executive and philanthropist Joseph E. Sheffield, associated with 19th-century New England society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maria St. John Sheffield
Target entity description: Maria St. John Sheffield was the wife of American railroad executive and philanthropist Joseph E. Sheffield, associated with 19th-century New England society.
  • A. Fanny Robarts
    Fanny Robarts is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Framley Parsonage," depicted as the sensible and devoted wife of the ambitious clergyman Mark Robarts.
  • B. Sarah Whetstone
    Sarah Whetstone was the wife of English privateer and colonial governor Woodes Rogers, known primarily through her marriage into his prominent seafaring and political life.
  • C. Katherine Rogers
    Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
  • D. Martha Vickers
    Martha Vickers was an American film and television actress best known for her role as Carmen Sternwood in the classic noir film "The Big Sleep" (1946).
  • E. Karen Richards
    Karen Richards is a key character in the classic film "All About Eve," a theater insider whose friendship and decisions help drive the story’s backstage drama and betrayal.
  • 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_69a493b21f2881908132dcf45dcd2f36 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b4144c208190980936347a95e233 completed March 1, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad013e770c8190a97a67d546da341a completed March 8, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad01b7d4348190b08a366a08d445dc completed March 8, 2026, 4:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad024e077c8190b0ef48ac7042ac5b completed March 8, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.