Triple

T14705915
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lillian Steichen Sandburg E345429 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Lillian Steichen
Lillian Steichen was an American political activist and writer, known both for her socialist organizing and as the sister of photographer Edward Steichen and wife of poet Carl Sandburg.
E1117052 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: Lillian Steichen | Statement: [Lillian Steichen Sandburg, birthName, Lillian Steichen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lillian Steichen
Context triple: [Lillian Steichen Sandburg, birthName, Lillian Steichen]
  • A. Edward Steichen
    Edward Steichen was a pioneering Luxembourgish-American photographer, painter, and curator renowned for his influential role in early 20th-century art and for serving as director of photography at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
  • B. Lillian Bassman
    Lillian Bassman was an influential American fashion photographer and art director known for her experimental, high-contrast, and painterly images that helped redefine mid-20th-century fashion photography.
  • C. Berenice Abbott
    Berenice Abbott was an influential American photographer best known for her black-and-white images documenting New York City’s architecture and urban transformation in the early 20th century.
  • D. Irving Penn
    Irving Penn was a renowned American photographer celebrated for his elegant fashion images, still lifes, and portraiture for magazines such as Vogue.
  • E. Avedon
    Avedon is a music producer known for his work on contemporary pop and R&B projects, including contributions to Doja Cat’s album "Planet Her."
  • 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: Lillian Steichen
Triple: [Lillian Steichen Sandburg, birthName, Lillian Steichen]
Generated description
Lillian Steichen was an American political activist and writer, known both for her socialist organizing and as the sister of photographer Edward Steichen and wife of poet Carl Sandburg.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lillian Steichen
Target entity description: Lillian Steichen was an American political activist and writer, known both for her socialist organizing and as the sister of photographer Edward Steichen and wife of poet Carl Sandburg.
  • A. Edward Steichen
    Edward Steichen was a pioneering Luxembourgish-American photographer, painter, and curator renowned for his influential role in early 20th-century art and for serving as director of photography at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
  • B. Lillian Bassman
    Lillian Bassman was an influential American fashion photographer and art director known for her experimental, high-contrast, and painterly images that helped redefine mid-20th-century fashion photography.
  • C. Berenice Abbott
    Berenice Abbott was an influential American photographer best known for her black-and-white images documenting New York City’s architecture and urban transformation in the early 20th century.
  • D. Irving Penn
    Irving Penn was a renowned American photographer celebrated for his elegant fashion images, still lifes, and portraiture for magazines such as Vogue.
  • E. Avedon
    Avedon is a music producer known for his work on contemporary pop and R&B projects, including contributions to Doja Cat’s album "Planet Her."
  • 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_69d822e4a8c08190a155df736bb7bc13 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb6086c608190a66c64e23a3e002f completed April 14, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fdfb8221a4819098937018f24a0b44 completed May 8, 2026, 3:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fdfd5c19b0819081efd1dc3ce0c9fb completed May 8, 2026, 3:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fdfded4ab48190b4151cd8f6078d57 completed May 8, 2026, 3:14 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:28 a.m.