Triple

T10142983
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Philander C. Knox E231630 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Lillian Smith Knox
Lillian Smith Knox was the wife of American politician and U.S. Secretary of State Philander C. Knox and a prominent figure in Washington, D.C. social circles in the early 20th century.
E844633 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: Lillian Smith Knox | Statement: [Philander C. Knox, spouse, Lillian Smith Knox]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lillian Smith Knox
Context triple: [Philander C. Knox, spouse, Lillian Smith Knox]
  • A. Selma Florence Smith
    Selma Florence Smith was the wife of Harold H. Burton, an American politician and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • B. Marion Boyd
    Marion Boyd was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, known primarily as a royal mistress of King James IV of Scotland and the mother of several of his illegitimate children.
  • C. Mary Lee Johnston
    Mary Lee Johnston is a character in the film "Precious," serving as the abusive and deeply troubled mother of the protagonist, Claireece "Precious" Jones.
  • D. Mary Tayloe Lloyd
    Mary Tayloe Lloyd was an American woman from a prominent Maryland family best known as the wife of Francis Scott Key, author of the U.S. national anthem.
  • E. Daisy Bates
    Daisy Bates was a prominent civil rights activist and journalist who played a key leadership role in guiding and supporting the Little Rock Nine during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
  • 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: Lillian Smith Knox
Triple: [Philander C. Knox, spouse, Lillian Smith Knox]
Generated description
Lillian Smith Knox was the wife of American politician and U.S. Secretary of State Philander C. Knox and a prominent figure in Washington, D.C. social circles in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lillian Smith Knox
Target entity description: Lillian Smith Knox was the wife of American politician and U.S. Secretary of State Philander C. Knox and a prominent figure in Washington, D.C. social circles in the early 20th century.
  • A. Selma Florence Smith
    Selma Florence Smith was the wife of Harold H. Burton, an American politician and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • B. Marion Boyd
    Marion Boyd was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, known primarily as a royal mistress of King James IV of Scotland and the mother of several of his illegitimate children.
  • C. Mary Lee Johnston
    Mary Lee Johnston is a character in the film "Precious," serving as the abusive and deeply troubled mother of the protagonist, Claireece "Precious" Jones.
  • D. Mary Tayloe Lloyd
    Mary Tayloe Lloyd was an American woman from a prominent Maryland family best known as the wife of Francis Scott Key, author of the U.S. national anthem.
  • E. Daisy Bates
    Daisy Bates was a prominent civil rights activist and journalist who played a key leadership role in guiding and supporting the Little Rock Nine during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
  • 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_69ca848364f881908a24366a6feec1db completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdeb273fec8190818707167e031d58 completed April 2, 2026, 4:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2e618b0bc8190bc1d6f15dac2708e completed April 5, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2e866cc4881909b5f4d1502a69885 completed April 5, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2e91061248190a7f9022c26daba0e completed April 5, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:07 p.m.