Triple

T10206748
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vivian Vance E242216 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object John Dodds
John Dodds was the husband of American actress Vivian Vance, best known for her role as Ethel Mertz on the classic television series "I Love Lucy."
E861267 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: John Dodds | Statement: [Vivian Vance, spouse, John Dodds]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Dodds
Context triple: [Vivian Vance, spouse, John Dodds]
  • A. Joseph Dodson
    Joseph Dodson was a 19th-century New Zealand businessman and politician, known primarily as a brewer and early mayor of Nelson.
  • B. Ben Durrant
    Ben Durrant is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
  • C. Geoffrey Dawson
    Geoffrey Dawson was a British newspaper editor and influential public figure who notably served as editor of The Times during the early 20th century.
  • D. Derek Dowding
    Derek Dowding was a Royal Air Force officer and the son of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, noted for his own distinguished service in military aviation.
  • E. John Hadden
    John Hadden is a theater artist and director best known as a co-founder of the Shakespeare & Company theater troupe.
  • 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: John Dodds
Triple: [Vivian Vance, spouse, John Dodds]
Generated description
John Dodds was the husband of American actress Vivian Vance, best known for her role as Ethel Mertz on the classic television series "I Love Lucy."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Dodds
Target entity description: John Dodds was the husband of American actress Vivian Vance, best known for her role as Ethel Mertz on the classic television series "I Love Lucy."
  • A. Joseph Dodson
    Joseph Dodson was a 19th-century New Zealand businessman and politician, known primarily as a brewer and early mayor of Nelson.
  • B. Ben Durrant
    Ben Durrant is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
  • C. Geoffrey Dawson
    Geoffrey Dawson was a British newspaper editor and influential public figure who notably served as editor of The Times during the early 20th century.
  • D. Derek Dowding
    Derek Dowding was a Royal Air Force officer and the son of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, noted for his own distinguished service in military aviation.
  • E. John Hadden
    John Hadden is a theater artist and director best known as a co-founder of the Shakespeare & Company theater troupe.
  • 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_69d381ae26c48190985abd0e25ee5d04 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d395f774008190ae38823651e45264 completed April 6, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d7fb26d17c8190848b6b0d4df06fa2 completed April 9, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d822d303888190aa556287b3b1cc03 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d859b05a3881908c97cb173d160e44 completed April 10, 2026, 2 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 10:54 a.m.