Triple

T14530343
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ambrose Bierce E340893 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Mary Ellen Day Bierce
Mary Ellen Day Bierce was the wife of American writer and satirist Ambrose Bierce, known primarily through her connection to his life and correspondence.
E1104287 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: Mary Ellen Day Bierce | Statement: [Ambrose Bierce, spouse, Mary Ellen Day Bierce]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Ellen Day Bierce
Context triple: [Ambrose Bierce, spouse, Mary Ellen Day Bierce]
  • A. Anna Griswold Harte
    Anna Griswold Harte was the wife of American author and poet Bret Harte, known for her connection to the prominent 19th-century writer of Western frontier stories.
  • B. Constance Fenimore Woolson
    Constance Fenimore Woolson was a 19th-century American novelist and short story writer known for her regionalist fiction and nuanced portrayals of women and post–Civil War American life.
  • C. Ambrose Bierce
    Ambrose Bierce was an American writer, journalist, and satirist best known for his darkly cynical short stories and the satirical reference work "The Devil’s Dictionary."
  • D. Sarah Story
    Sarah Story was the wife of 17th-century Puritan minister and theologian John Cotton, associated with early colonial New England.
  • E. Rebecca Harding Davis
    Rebecca Harding Davis was a pioneering 19th-century American writer and journalist best known for her early realist fiction depicting industrial life and social reform issues.
  • 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: Mary Ellen Day Bierce
Triple: [Ambrose Bierce, spouse, Mary Ellen Day Bierce]
Generated description
Mary Ellen Day Bierce was the wife of American writer and satirist Ambrose Bierce, known primarily through her connection to his life and correspondence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Ellen Day Bierce
Target entity description: Mary Ellen Day Bierce was the wife of American writer and satirist Ambrose Bierce, known primarily through her connection to his life and correspondence.
  • A. Anna Griswold Harte
    Anna Griswold Harte was the wife of American author and poet Bret Harte, known for her connection to the prominent 19th-century writer of Western frontier stories.
  • B. Constance Fenimore Woolson
    Constance Fenimore Woolson was a 19th-century American novelist and short story writer known for her regionalist fiction and nuanced portrayals of women and post–Civil War American life.
  • C. Ambrose Bierce
    Ambrose Bierce was an American writer, journalist, and satirist best known for his darkly cynical short stories and the satirical reference work "The Devil’s Dictionary."
  • D. Sarah Story
    Sarah Story was the wife of 17th-century Puritan minister and theologian John Cotton, associated with early colonial New England.
  • E. Rebecca Harding Davis
    Rebecca Harding Davis was a pioneering 19th-century American writer and journalist best known for her early realist fiction depicting industrial life and social reform issues.
  • 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_69d822dac79c8190a84a073f3cbaced5 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dea052d01c81909c8592c351be6f35 completed April 14, 2026, 8:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd7a547c408190a1a19e12aac1d5bd completed May 8, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd7be2dc0c8190b8950a1f43ce13ab completed May 8, 2026, 6 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd7c6422e08190b149efdf58c3572a completed May 8, 2026, 6:02 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:22 a.m.