Triple

T1178894
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clarence Thomas E25090 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Virginia Thomas
Virginia Thomas is an American conservative activist and attorney best known as the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and for her involvement in right-wing political causes.
E214377 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: Virginia Thomas | Statement: [Clarence Thomas, spouse, Virginia Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia Thomas
Context triple: [Clarence Thomas, spouse, Virginia Thomas]
  • A. Martha McMillan Roberts
    Martha McMillan Roberts was a Farm Security Administration photographer known for documenting American life during the Great Depression era.
  • B. Jane Wills Pitts
    Jane Wills Pitts was the mother of Helen Pitts Douglass, the white suffragist and second wife of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
  • C. Mary Burwell
    Mary Burwell was an English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain’s first de facto Prime Minister.
  • D. Virginia Cunningham
    Virginia Cunningham is the troubled protagonist of the novel and film "The Snake Pit," whose experiences depict the harsh realities of life inside a mid-20th-century psychiatric institution.
  • E. Dixie Lee
    Dixie Lee was an American singer and actress of the early 20th century, best known for her work in film and music as well as her marriage to Bing Crosby.
  • 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: Virginia Thomas
Triple: [Clarence Thomas, spouse, Virginia Thomas]
Generated description
Virginia Thomas is an American conservative activist and attorney best known as the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and for her involvement in right-wing political causes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia Thomas
Target entity description: Virginia Thomas is an American conservative activist and attorney best known as the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and for her involvement in right-wing political causes.
  • A. Martha McMillan Roberts
    Martha McMillan Roberts was a Farm Security Administration photographer known for documenting American life during the Great Depression era.
  • B. Jane Wills Pitts
    Jane Wills Pitts was the mother of Helen Pitts Douglass, the white suffragist and second wife of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
  • C. Mary Burwell
    Mary Burwell was an English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain’s first de facto Prime Minister.
  • D. Virginia Cunningham
    Virginia Cunningham is the troubled protagonist of the novel and film "The Snake Pit," whose experiences depict the harsh realities of life inside a mid-20th-century psychiatric institution.
  • E. Dixie Lee
    Dixie Lee was an American singer and actress of the early 20th century, best known for her work in film and music as well as her marriage to Bing Crosby.
  • 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_69a494267b4c819088c97a59182bf56a completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bd10ccc481908d5bcef648aab3c1 completed March 1, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adf3a85f8481908d93f60b0ae82901 completed March 8, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adf431c3a88190971f61d53c2bad2e completed March 8, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adf4bdb6dc8190964e5e78abfb8e40 completed March 8, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.