Triple

T12316186
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Herschel E293603 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Margaret Brodie Stewart Herschel
Margaret Brodie Stewart Herschel was the wife of British astronomer Sir John Herschel and the mother of his twelve children, known for managing the family’s domestic and social life during his scientific career.
E979638 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: Margaret Brodie Stewart Herschel | Statement: [John Herschel, spouse, Margaret Brodie Stewart Herschel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Margaret Brodie Stewart Herschel
Context triple: [John Herschel, spouse, Margaret Brodie Stewart Herschel]
  • A. Mary Pitt Herschel
    Mary Pitt Herschel was the wife of astronomer William Herschel and a member of the prominent Herschel family associated with major advances in astronomy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • B. Caroline Herschel
    Caroline Herschel was a pioneering German-born British astronomer renowned for her discovery of several comets and for being one of the first women to receive recognition in the field of astronomy.
  • C. Margaret Maskelyne
    Margaret Maskelyne was the wife of British colonial figure Robert Clive and a member of a prominent 18th-century English family that included the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.
  • D. Mary Somerville
    Mary Somerville was a 19th-century Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and science writer whose work in popularizing and synthesizing scientific knowledge helped shape early modern mathematics and influenced figures like Ada Lovelace.
  • E. Cordelia Whewell
    Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
  • 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: Margaret Brodie Stewart Herschel
Triple: [John Herschel, spouse, Margaret Brodie Stewart Herschel]
Generated description
Margaret Brodie Stewart Herschel was the wife of British astronomer Sir John Herschel and the mother of his twelve children, known for managing the family’s domestic and social life during his scientific career.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Margaret Brodie Stewart Herschel
Target entity description: Margaret Brodie Stewart Herschel was the wife of British astronomer Sir John Herschel and the mother of his twelve children, known for managing the family’s domestic and social life during his scientific career.
  • A. Mary Pitt Herschel
    Mary Pitt Herschel was the wife of astronomer William Herschel and a member of the prominent Herschel family associated with major advances in astronomy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • B. Caroline Herschel
    Caroline Herschel was a pioneering German-born British astronomer renowned for her discovery of several comets and for being one of the first women to receive recognition in the field of astronomy.
  • C. Margaret Maskelyne
    Margaret Maskelyne was the wife of British colonial figure Robert Clive and a member of a prominent 18th-century English family that included the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.
  • D. Mary Somerville
    Mary Somerville was a 19th-century Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and science writer whose work in popularizing and synthesizing scientific knowledge helped shape early modern mathematics and influenced figures like Ada Lovelace.
  • E. Cordelia Whewell
    Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
  • 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_69d6ab6a2b50819082f6aedd32ed608a completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d93f05186481909c024a933b4f6c60 completed April 10, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f62a9d50b081908f0bdb7a2ca2832a completed May 2, 2026, 4:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f62be420308190bcb00d8b37b09ea2 completed May 2, 2026, 4:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f63050f5d48190881688d12c4c1819 completed May 2, 2026, 5:11 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:53 p.m.