Triple
T10280673
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Holden |
E241089
|
entity |
| Predicate | parent |
P120
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Mary Blanche Ball
Mary Blanche Ball was the mother of American actor William Holden, one of classic Hollywood’s leading men.
|
E854950
|
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: Mary Blanche Ball | Statement: [William Holden, parent, Mary Blanche Ball]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Blanche Ball Context triple: [William Holden, parent, Mary Blanche Ball]
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A.
Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge
Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge was an American socialite and political hostess best known as the wife of U.S. Vice President and Confederate general John C. Breckinridge.
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B.
Varina Howell Davis
Varina Howell Davis was an American writer and the second wife of Jefferson Davis, serving as First Lady of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
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C.
Eliza Griffin Johnston
Eliza Griffin Johnston was the wife of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston and a 19th-century American woman known primarily through her association with his military and personal life.
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D.
Mary Izard
Mary Izard was a member of the prominent Izard family of South Carolina and the wife of American Founding Father and Continental Congress delegate Arthur Middleton.
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E.
Sallie White Bolling
Sallie White Bolling was the mother of Edith Bolling Wilson, the second wife of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and an influential First Lady.
- 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: Mary Blanche Ball Triple: [William Holden, parent, Mary Blanche Ball]
Generated description
Mary Blanche Ball was the mother of American actor William Holden, one of classic Hollywood’s leading men.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Blanche Ball Target entity description: Mary Blanche Ball was the mother of American actor William Holden, one of classic Hollywood’s leading men.
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A.
Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge
Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge was an American socialite and political hostess best known as the wife of U.S. Vice President and Confederate general John C. Breckinridge.
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B.
Varina Howell Davis
Varina Howell Davis was an American writer and the second wife of Jefferson Davis, serving as First Lady of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
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C.
Eliza Griffin Johnston
Eliza Griffin Johnston was the wife of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston and a 19th-century American woman known primarily through her association with his military and personal life.
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D.
Mary Izard
Mary Izard was a member of the prominent Izard family of South Carolina and the wife of American Founding Father and Continental Congress delegate Arthur Middleton.
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E.
Sallie White Bolling
Sallie White Bolling was the mother of Edith Bolling Wilson, the second wife of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and an influential First Lady.
- 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_69d381a94c1881908fc38fc263d9b9c2 |
completed | April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d4d2a0c90c8190ad6ee479a32e5a95 |
completed | April 7, 2026, 9:47 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d71d012ae481909633b1333dc88b63 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 3:29 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69d73180d90481908f1b4768230edd36 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 4:56 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69d7326b14988190bff33dc01e690707 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 5 a.m. |
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:38 a.m.