Triple

T14264805
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chester Carlson E353616 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Elsie Carlson
Elsie Carlson was the wife of Chester Carlson, the American physicist and inventor best known for developing xerography, the process that led to modern photocopying.
 E1239026 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: Elsie Carlson | Statement: [Chester Carlson, spouse, Elsie Carlson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Elsie Carlson
Context triple: [Chester Carlson, spouse, Elsie Carlson]
  • A. Elsie Downey
    Elsie Downey was an American actress best known as the mother of actor Robert Downey Jr. and for her appearances in several of her husband Robert Downey Sr.’s underground films.
  • B. Elsie Magoon
    Elsie Magoon is a literary work by 19th-century American suffragist, abolitionist, and author Frances Dana Barker Gage.
  • C. Elsie Wheeler
    Elsie Wheeler was the wife of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, the pioneering American comic book publisher who founded the company that would become DC Comics.
  • D. Elsie Driggs
    Elsie Driggs was an American painter associated with the Precisionist movement, known for her stylized depictions of industrial and urban landscapes.
  • E. Elsie Ann Ford
    Elsie Ann Ford was an American actress and the mother of actor Robert Downey Jr.
  • 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: Elsie Carlson
Triple: [Chester Carlson, spouse, Elsie Carlson]
Generated description
Elsie Carlson was the wife of Chester Carlson, the American physicist and inventor best known for developing xerography, the process that led to modern photocopying.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Elsie Carlson
Target entity description: Elsie Carlson was the wife of Chester Carlson, the American physicist and inventor best known for developing xerography, the process that led to modern photocopying.
  • A. Elsie Downey
    Elsie Downey was an American actress best known as the mother of actor Robert Downey Jr. and for her appearances in several of her husband Robert Downey Sr.’s underground films.
  • B. Elsie Magoon
    Elsie Magoon is a literary work by 19th-century American suffragist, abolitionist, and author Frances Dana Barker Gage.
  • C. Elsie Wheeler
    Elsie Wheeler was the wife of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, the pioneering American comic book publisher who founded the company that would become DC Comics.
  • D. Elsie Driggs
    Elsie Driggs was an American painter associated with the Precisionist movement, known for her stylized depictions of industrial and urban landscapes.
  • E. Elsie Ann Ford
    Elsie Ann Ford was an American actress and the mother of actor Robert Downey Jr.
  • 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_69d8278c43e08190824146f4632b89a5 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de6357a8188190ba518a486521052b completed April 14, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00c28d1e1c81909e869f01659ec233 completed May 10, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00c457a1608190bd57155e91e55e9c completed May 10, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00c5230fd481908cbc37e332b72380 completed May 10, 2026, 5:49 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:09 a.m.