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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.