Triple

T1109180
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colin Powell E25553 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Alma Johnson Powell
Alma Johnson Powell is an American audiologist and education advocate best known as the longtime wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and for her leadership in children’s and literacy initiatives.
E205389 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: Alma Johnson Powell | Statement: [Colin Powell, spouse, Alma Johnson Powell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alma Johnson Powell
Context triple: [Colin Powell, spouse, Alma Johnson Powell]
  • A. Marguerite Erskine Walker
    Marguerite Erskine Walker was the wife of American inventor and industrialist George Westinghouse and a prominent Pittsburgh social figure and philanthropist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Mary McBride Smith
    Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
  • C. Lucille Campbell Green
    Lucille Campbell Green was an educator and civil rights activist best known as the wife and partner of prominent labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.
  • D. Josephine Stovall
    Josephine Stovall was the wife of James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.
  • E. Leola Brown
    Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
  • 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: Alma Johnson Powell
Triple: [Colin Powell, spouse, Alma Johnson Powell]
Generated description
Alma Johnson Powell is an American audiologist and education advocate best known as the longtime wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and for her leadership in children’s and literacy initiatives.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alma Johnson Powell
Target entity description: Alma Johnson Powell is an American audiologist and education advocate best known as the longtime wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and for her leadership in children’s and literacy initiatives.
  • A. Marguerite Erskine Walker
    Marguerite Erskine Walker was the wife of American inventor and industrialist George Westinghouse and a prominent Pittsburgh social figure and philanthropist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Mary McBride Smith
    Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
  • C. Lucille Campbell Green
    Lucille Campbell Green was an educator and civil rights activist best known as the wife and partner of prominent labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.
  • D. Josephine Stovall
    Josephine Stovall was the wife of James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.
  • E. Leola Brown
    Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
  • 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_69a49428d4448190b3b36991ceae87ce completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b9e6134481909f348986a25f65c6 completed March 1, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adc97fe2808190b421329ed239af6f completed March 8, 2026, 7:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adcaed1f788190b14c3e2d2c3036d9 completed March 8, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adcbee97e88190adc1315c0a5013ab completed March 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.