Triple

T11465734
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tales of the City E271774 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Mary Ann Singleton
Mary Ann Singleton is the naive yet determined young woman from Ohio who becomes a central figure navigating love, identity, and community in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series set in 1970s San Francisco.
E935230 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 Ann Singleton | Statement: [Tales of the City, mainCharacter, Mary Ann Singleton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Ann Singleton
Context triple: [Tales of the City, mainCharacter, Mary Ann Singleton]
  • A. Mary Singleton
    Mary Singleton was the mother of renowned American colonial-era portrait painter John Singleton Copley.
  • B. Mary Ann Bertles
    Mary Ann Bertles was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
  • C. Mary Brewster
    Mary Brewster was a member of the Mayflower Pilgrims and the wife of William Brewster, one of the leading figures of Plymouth Colony.
  • D. Mary Brewster
    Mary Brewster was the wife of American statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution William Samuel Johnson.
  • E. Mary Brewster
    Mary Brewster was a social reformer and nurse best known as a co-founder of New York City's pioneering Henry Street Settlement, which provided social services and healthcare to impoverished communities.
  • 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 Ann Singleton
Triple: [Tales of the City, mainCharacter, Mary Ann Singleton]
Generated description
Mary Ann Singleton is the naive yet determined young woman from Ohio who becomes a central figure navigating love, identity, and community in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series set in 1970s San Francisco.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Ann Singleton
Target entity description: Mary Ann Singleton is the naive yet determined young woman from Ohio who becomes a central figure navigating love, identity, and community in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series set in 1970s San Francisco.
  • A. Mary Singleton
    Mary Singleton was the mother of renowned American colonial-era portrait painter John Singleton Copley.
  • B. Mary Ann Bertles
    Mary Ann Bertles was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
  • C. Mary Brewster
    Mary Brewster was a member of the Mayflower Pilgrims and the wife of William Brewster, one of the leading figures of Plymouth Colony.
  • D. Mary Brewster
    Mary Brewster was the wife of American statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution William Samuel Johnson.
  • E. Mary Brewster
    Mary Brewster was a social reformer and nurse best known as a co-founder of New York City's pioneering Henry Street Settlement, which provided social services and healthcare to impoverished communities.
  • 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_69d6aae0c8d881908a5a360c0be3242e completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d822f5eb988190b309b8e309f6d1a5 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e713488c7c81908d97d249af770603 completed April 21, 2026, 6:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e720f4015c81909ba7973c3e781985 completed April 21, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e75a7a04c88190bb8f3dd3f3e435ef completed April 21, 2026, 11:07 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.