Triple

T9909255
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Barbara Ruick E185095 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Robert Horton
Robert Horton was an American actor best known for his starring role as scout Flint McCullough on the television Western series "Wagon Train."
 E832593 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: Robert Horton | Statement: [Barbara Ruick, spouse, Robert Horton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert Horton
Context triple: [Barbara Ruick, spouse, Robert Horton]
  • A. Rance Howard
    Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
  • B. Ray Curtiss
    Ray Curtiss is a film editor best known for his work on the 1938 aviation adventure movie "The Dawn Patrol."
  • C. Herbert Brenon
    Herbert Brenon was an Irish-born American film director prominent in the silent era, known for adapting major literary works and staging visually ambitious productions.
  • D. Lee Flaherty
    Lee Flaherty is an American businessman and race organizer best known for creating and launching the Chicago Marathon in the 1970s.
  • E. Robert McLane
    Robert McLane was an American businessman best known as the founder of McLane Company, a major supply chain services and wholesale distribution firm.
  • 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: Robert Horton
Triple: [Barbara Ruick, spouse, Robert Horton]
Generated description
Robert Horton was an American actor best known for his starring role as scout Flint McCullough on the television Western series "Wagon Train."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert Horton
Target entity description: Robert Horton was an American actor best known for his starring role as scout Flint McCullough on the television Western series "Wagon Train."
  • A. Rance Howard
    Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
  • B. Ray Curtiss
    Ray Curtiss is a film editor best known for his work on the 1938 aviation adventure movie "The Dawn Patrol."
  • C. Herbert Brenon
    Herbert Brenon was an Irish-born American film director prominent in the silent era, known for adapting major literary works and staging visually ambitious productions.
  • D. Lee Flaherty
    Lee Flaherty is an American businessman and race organizer best known for creating and launching the Chicago Marathon in the 1970s.
  • E. Robert McLane
    Robert McLane was an American businessman best known as the founder of McLane Company, a major supply chain services and wholesale distribution firm.
  • 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_69ca8296165881908ca4750701af1f29 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb51184d08190a0350f2722110811 completed April 2, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d23d22c56081909c3e4b8ca0e81fe7 completed April 5, 2026, 10:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d23e6ca3908190b7ad7b932ab35ad7 completed April 5, 2026, 10:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d241020074819092bc2deea85a6ac0 completed April 5, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:41 p.m.