Triple

T11684389
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joseph Medill E277700 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Katherine Medill McCormick E904719 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Katherine Medill McCormick | Statement: [Joseph Medill, child, Katherine Medill McCormick]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Katherine Medill McCormick
Context triple: [Joseph Medill, child, Katherine Medill McCormick]
  • A. Katherine Medill McCormick chosen
    Katherine Medill McCormick was an American suffragist, philanthropist, and key financial supporter of the research that led to the development of the first birth control pill.
  • B. Charlotte Anita Whitney
    Charlotte Anita Whitney was an American political activist and early 20th-century socialist whose prosecution under California’s criminal syndicalism laws led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court free speech case Whitney v. California.
  • C. Phoebe Apperson Hearst
    Phoebe Apperson Hearst was an American philanthropist and suffragist known for her major contributions to education, libraries, and the arts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Nancy Fowler McCormick
    Nancy Fowler McCormick was an American philanthropist and socialite known for her charitable work and for being married to agricultural machinery inventor Cyrus McCormick.
  • E. Ailsa Mellon Bruce
    Ailsa Mellon Bruce was an American philanthropist and art collector, heir to the Mellon banking fortune, known for her major contributions to museums and the arts.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d6aafe02d881909900d54ad7d4af84 elicitation completed
NER batch_69d8a463f6448190a4c8e1651a2bd905 ner completed
NED1 batch_69ef83098e2c819081c22462372f64b4 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.