Triple

T1267520
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mary Pickersgill E15634 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object John Pickersgill
John Pickersgill was the husband of American flagmaker Mary Pickersgill, who is best known for sewing the Star-Spangled Banner flag.
E151783 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: John Pickersgill | Statement: [Mary Pickersgill, spouse, John Pickersgill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Pickersgill
Context triple: [Mary Pickersgill, spouse, John Pickersgill]
  • A. William McSweeny
    William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
  • B. James Caldwell
    James Caldwell was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel anti-British sentiment before the American Revolution.
  • C. Samuel Garbett
    Samuel Garbett was an 18th-century English industrialist and merchant from Birmingham, known for his role in the early chemical industry and his involvement in the influential Lunar Society.
  • D. Wallace Akers
    Wallace Akers was a British industrial chemist and administrator who played a key role in the United Kingdom’s early atomic energy and nuclear weapons research during World War II.
  • E. Homer Murray
    Homer Murray is an American chef and restaurateur, best known as the son of actor Bill Murray and for running the Brooklyn restaurant 21 Greenpoint.
  • 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: John Pickersgill
Triple: [Mary Pickersgill, spouse, John Pickersgill]
Generated description
John Pickersgill was the husband of American flagmaker Mary Pickersgill, who is best known for sewing the Star-Spangled Banner flag.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Pickersgill
Target entity description: John Pickersgill was the husband of American flagmaker Mary Pickersgill, who is best known for sewing the Star-Spangled Banner flag.
  • A. William McSweeny
    William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
  • B. James Caldwell
    James Caldwell was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel anti-British sentiment before the American Revolution.
  • C. Samuel Garbett
    Samuel Garbett was an 18th-century English industrialist and merchant from Birmingham, known for his role in the early chemical industry and his involvement in the influential Lunar Society.
  • D. Wallace Akers
    Wallace Akers was a British industrial chemist and administrator who played a key role in the United Kingdom’s early atomic energy and nuclear weapons research during World War II.
  • E. Homer Murray
    Homer Murray is an American chef and restaurateur, best known as the son of actor Bill Murray and for running the Brooklyn restaurant 21 Greenpoint.
  • 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_69a4935a94308190bb92555b79032824 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c0396e048190b4e2d7aab19268b3 completed March 1, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acbf1fa1148190a8a8a5b3e34946f0 completed March 8, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acbf873544819099d3dff98a6b2244 completed March 8, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc06483b08190b5b29f684b83f43f completed March 8, 2026, 12:18 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.