Triple

T1478658
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ernest Rutherford E30899 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Mary Georgina Newton
Mary Georgina Newton was the wife of pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford and a supportive partner throughout his scientific career.
E168969 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 Georgina Newton | Statement: [Ernest Rutherford, spouse, Mary Georgina Newton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Georgina Newton
Context triple: [Ernest Rutherford, spouse, Mary Georgina Newton]
  • A. Cordelia Whewell
    Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
  • B. Mary Somerville
    Mary Somerville was a 19th-century Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and science writer whose work in popularizing and synthesizing scientific knowledge helped shape early modern mathematics and influenced figures like Ada Lovelace.
  • C. Mary Penrose
    Mary Penrose was the wife of American Revolutionary War general Anthony Wayne and a member of a prominent Pennsylvania family in the late 18th century.
  • D. Williamina Fleming
    Williamina Fleming was a pioneering Scottish-American astronomer who made major contributions to stellar classification and the discovery of numerous astronomical objects while working at the Harvard College Observatory.
  • E. Margaret Eva Watson
    Margaret Eva Watson was the wife of Herbert Hoover Jr., an engineer and businessman and the elder son of U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
  • 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 Georgina Newton
Triple: [Ernest Rutherford, spouse, Mary Georgina Newton]
Generated description
Mary Georgina Newton was the wife of pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford and a supportive partner throughout his scientific career.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Georgina Newton
Target entity description: Mary Georgina Newton was the wife of pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford and a supportive partner throughout his scientific career.
  • A. Cordelia Whewell
    Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
  • B. Mary Somerville
    Mary Somerville was a 19th-century Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and science writer whose work in popularizing and synthesizing scientific knowledge helped shape early modern mathematics and influenced figures like Ada Lovelace.
  • C. Mary Penrose
    Mary Penrose was the wife of American Revolutionary War general Anthony Wayne and a member of a prominent Pennsylvania family in the late 18th century.
  • D. Williamina Fleming
    Williamina Fleming was a pioneering Scottish-American astronomer who made major contributions to stellar classification and the discovery of numerous astronomical objects while working at the Harvard College Observatory.
  • E. Margaret Eva Watson
    Margaret Eva Watson was the wife of Herbert Hoover Jr., an engineer and businessman and the elder son of U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
  • 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_69a498fe55a88190ab7f9e40ace88e49 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c6739d2481909ea8d8e075f62cf3 completed March 1, 2026, 11:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad15aff1288190a3e36324d975d482 completed March 8, 2026, 6:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad1639e21081908737b51e910ceae3 completed March 8, 2026, 6:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad16a98fd08190a14f4d7d6b11f5e8 completed March 8, 2026, 6:26 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:11 p.m.