Triple

T11457067
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Anna McNeill Whistler E271555 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object George Washington Whistler
George Washington Whistler was a prominent 19th-century American civil engineer and railroad designer known for his influential work on railways in the United States and Russia.
E944043 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: George Washington Whistler | Statement: [Anna McNeill Whistler, spouse, George Washington Whistler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Washington Whistler
Context triple: [Anna McNeill Whistler, spouse, George Washington Whistler]
  • A. James McNeill Whistler
    James McNeill Whistler was an influential American-born, British-based painter and printmaker of the late 19th century, best known for his subtle tonal compositions such as "Whistler's Mother."
  • B. George Leighton
    George Leighton is a name shared by several notable figures, including artists, writers, and public officials, whose specific identity depends on the historical and professional context.
  • C. William Dyce
    William Dyce was a 19th-century Scottish painter and influential art educator associated with the early Pre-Raphaelite movement.
  • D. George Washington Watts
    George Washington Watts was an American industrialist and philanthropist best known for helping build the tobacco empire that shaped Durham, North Carolina’s early economic growth.
  • E. John Sargent
    John Sargent is a fictional character appearing in the 1940 romantic drama film "Remember the Night."
  • 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: George Washington Whistler
Triple: [Anna McNeill Whistler, spouse, George Washington Whistler]
Generated description
George Washington Whistler was a prominent 19th-century American civil engineer and railroad designer known for his influential work on railways in the United States and Russia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Washington Whistler
Target entity description: George Washington Whistler was a prominent 19th-century American civil engineer and railroad designer known for his influential work on railways in the United States and Russia.
  • A. James McNeill Whistler
    James McNeill Whistler was an influential American-born, British-based painter and printmaker of the late 19th century, best known for his subtle tonal compositions such as "Whistler's Mother."
  • B. George Leighton
    George Leighton is a name shared by several notable figures, including artists, writers, and public officials, whose specific identity depends on the historical and professional context.
  • C. William Dyce
    William Dyce was a 19th-century Scottish painter and influential art educator associated with the early Pre-Raphaelite movement.
  • D. George Washington Watts
    George Washington Watts was an American industrialist and philanthropist best known for helping build the tobacco empire that shaped Durham, North Carolina’s early economic growth.
  • E. John Sargent
    John Sargent is a fictional character appearing in the 1940 romantic drama film "Remember the Night."
  • 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_69d6aadff8888190a13f253f0d460874 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d81c71b1208190be1d5623d18e0222 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f018963218819097771032a88688af completed April 28, 2026, 2:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f01d7ab930819095eaae226ab55b80 completed April 28, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f043ddbfe481908e0c439dbd3e944f completed April 28, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.