Triple

T12170770
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Places in the Heart E289956 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Edna Spalding
Edna Spalding is the resilient Depression-era widow at the center of the film "Places in the Heart," who struggles to save her Texas farm and family through courage and determination.
E1159408 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: Edna Spalding | Statement: [Places in the Heart, mainCharacter, Edna Spalding]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edna Spalding
Context triple: [Places in the Heart, mainCharacter, Edna Spalding]
  • A. Edna Stillwell
    Edna Stillwell was an American writer and gagwoman best known for her work on and marriage to comedian Red Skelton during the early years of his career.
  • B. Edna Fry
    Edna Fry is a fictional character from the British animated television series "Futurama," known as the grandmother of protagonist Philip J. Fry.
  • C. Edna Thompson
    Edna Thompson was the wife of legendary American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington.
  • D. Edna Johnson
    Edna Johnson was the wife of influential American jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller.
  • E. Edith Cushing
    Edith Cushing is the aspiring young American author and protagonist of Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic romance film "Crimson Peak," whose curiosity and independence draw her into a haunted English manor filled with dark family secrets.
  • 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: Edna Spalding
Triple: [Places in the Heart, mainCharacter, Edna Spalding]
Generated description
Edna Spalding is the resilient Depression-era widow at the center of the film "Places in the Heart," who struggles to save her Texas farm and family through courage and determination.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edna Spalding
Target entity description: Edna Spalding is the resilient Depression-era widow at the center of the film "Places in the Heart," who struggles to save her Texas farm and family through courage and determination.
  • A. Edna Stillwell
    Edna Stillwell was an American writer and gagwoman best known for her work on and marriage to comedian Red Skelton during the early years of his career.
  • B. Edna Fry
    Edna Fry is a fictional character from the British animated television series "Futurama," known as the grandmother of protagonist Philip J. Fry.
  • C. Edna Thompson
    Edna Thompson was the wife of legendary American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington.
  • D. Edna Johnson
    Edna Johnson was the wife of influential American jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller.
  • E. Edith Cushing
    Edith Cushing is the aspiring young American author and protagonist of Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic romance film "Crimson Peak," whose curiosity and independence draw her into a haunted English manor filled with dark family secrets.
  • 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_69d6ab4d6c00819095a9a7c35de83cfb completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d915d9659481909c75b12aa836bbf3 completed April 10, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff2ce12e78819080b3fe19c57ef3ef completed May 9, 2026, 12:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff2ff237a48190a4e4490303ad350d completed May 9, 2026, 1 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff306f5c1081908176fab3169d6fcb completed May 9, 2026, 1:02 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:50 p.m.