Triple

T1271964
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bette Davis E15728 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object William Grant Sherry
William Grant Sherry was an American artist and World War II veteran best known as the third husband of actress Bette Davis.
E144662 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: William Grant Sherry | Statement: [Bette Davis, spouse, William Grant Sherry]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Grant Sherry
Context triple: [Bette Davis, spouse, William Grant Sherry]
  • A. Harrison Tweed
    Harrison Tweed was a prominent American lawyer and legal reformer known for his leadership in bar associations and efforts to improve legal education and access to justice.
  • B. Richard Brown
    Richard Brown is an American writer and illustrator best known as the husband and creative collaborator of author Reeve Lindbergh.
  • C. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • D. Thomas Montgomerie
    Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
  • E. Archibald Hamilton
    Archibald Hamilton is a name shared by several notable historical figures, including Scottish nobles and politicians active in the 17th to 19th centuries.
  • 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: William Grant Sherry
Triple: [Bette Davis, spouse, William Grant Sherry]
Generated description
William Grant Sherry was an American artist and World War II veteran best known as the third husband of actress Bette Davis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Grant Sherry
Target entity description: William Grant Sherry was an American artist and World War II veteran best known as the third husband of actress Bette Davis.
  • A. Harrison Tweed
    Harrison Tweed was a prominent American lawyer and legal reformer known for his leadership in bar associations and efforts to improve legal education and access to justice.
  • B. Richard Brown
    Richard Brown is an American writer and illustrator best known as the husband and creative collaborator of author Reeve Lindbergh.
  • C. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • D. Thomas Montgomerie
    Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
  • E. Archibald Hamilton
    Archibald Hamilton is a name shared by several notable historical figures, including Scottish nobles and politicians active in the 17th to 19th centuries.
  • 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_69a4c06c033081909bc594157abaf5bb completed March 1, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac998e56488190ac3cf51563335e30 completed March 7, 2026, 9:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac9a13e9548190ae1fbfeba3326cd5 completed March 7, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac9a96d4f081908e608a3f247bbfb2 completed March 7, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.