Triple

T9720220
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sidney Poitier E235442 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Joanna Shimkus
Joanna Shimkus is a Canadian actress and film producer best known for her work in 1960s and 1970s cinema and her long marriage to actor and director Sidney Poitier.
E816994 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: Joanna Shimkus | Statement: [Sidney Poitier, spouse, Joanna Shimkus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joanna Shimkus
Context triple: [Sidney Poitier, spouse, Joanna Shimkus]
  • A. Corrine Quinn
    Corrine Quinn is a key character in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s novel "The Water Dancer," known for her role in the Underground Railroad–like resistance against slavery.
  • B. Marie Newman
    Marie Newman is an American politician and former U.S. Representative from Illinois known for her progressive positions on issues such as healthcare, LGBTQ+ rights, and economic inequality.
  • C. Carol Moseley Braun
    Carol Moseley Braun is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who became the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, representing Illinois.
  • D. Coleen Rowley
    Coleen Rowley is a former FBI special agent and whistleblower known for exposing intelligence failures prior to the September 11 attacks.
  • E. Jan Schakowsky
    Jan Schakowsky is a long-serving Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives known for her progressive stances on healthcare, consumer protection, and social justice issues.
  • 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: Joanna Shimkus
Triple: [Sidney Poitier, spouse, Joanna Shimkus]
Generated description
Joanna Shimkus is a Canadian actress and film producer best known for her work in 1960s and 1970s cinema and her long marriage to actor and director Sidney Poitier.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joanna Shimkus
Target entity description: Joanna Shimkus is a Canadian actress and film producer best known for her work in 1960s and 1970s cinema and her long marriage to actor and director Sidney Poitier.
  • A. Corrine Quinn
    Corrine Quinn is a key character in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s novel "The Water Dancer," known for her role in the Underground Railroad–like resistance against slavery.
  • B. Marie Newman
    Marie Newman is an American politician and former U.S. Representative from Illinois known for her progressive positions on issues such as healthcare, LGBTQ+ rights, and economic inequality.
  • C. Carol Moseley Braun
    Carol Moseley Braun is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who became the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, representing Illinois.
  • D. Coleen Rowley
    Coleen Rowley is a former FBI special agent and whistleblower known for exposing intelligence failures prior to the September 11 attacks.
  • E. Jan Schakowsky
    Jan Schakowsky is a long-serving Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives known for her progressive stances on healthcare, consumer protection, and social justice issues.
  • 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_69ca84d0123c819096f9dc3b6abb0881 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9e419c2c8190b325d5fd692c6000 completed April 1, 2026, 10:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d19f9c4ff4819098ad941438abbe3c completed April 4, 2026, 11:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1a0326dd081909e39e422c11cc08f completed April 4, 2026, 11:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1a0c05aa88190a93b0b71bef5c417 completed April 4, 2026, 11:37 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:20 p.m.