Triple

T14891732
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Saul Bass E359767 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Elaine Bass
Elaine Bass was a film title designer and collaborator known for working alongside her husband Saul Bass on influential motion picture title sequences and graphic design projects.
E1124702 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: Elaine Bass | Statement: [Saul Bass, spouse, Elaine Bass]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elaine Bass
Context triple: [Saul Bass, spouse, Elaine Bass]
  • A. Erma Ferguson
    Erma Ferguson was the wife of renowned Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader Maynard Ferguson.
  • B. Sylvia Braida
    Sylvia Braida is best known as the mother of Scottish journalist and novelist Anna Murdoch Mann.
  • C. Elaine Herzberg
    Elaine Herzberg was a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, who became the first person killed by a self-driving car when she was struck by an autonomous Uber test vehicle in 2018.
  • D. Dorothy Dorman
    Dorothy Dorman was the mother of Scottish actor and musician David McCallum, known for his roles in "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and "NCIS."
  • E. Maxine Greene
    Maxine Greene was an influential American educational philosopher and social theorist known for her work on aesthetic education, imagination, and the role of the arts in fostering social justice in schools.
  • 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: Elaine Bass
Triple: [Saul Bass, spouse, Elaine Bass]
Generated description
Elaine Bass was a film title designer and collaborator known for working alongside her husband Saul Bass on influential motion picture title sequences and graphic design projects.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elaine Bass
Target entity description: Elaine Bass was a film title designer and collaborator known for working alongside her husband Saul Bass on influential motion picture title sequences and graphic design projects.
  • A. Erma Ferguson
    Erma Ferguson was the wife of renowned Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader Maynard Ferguson.
  • B. Sylvia Braida
    Sylvia Braida is best known as the mother of Scottish journalist and novelist Anna Murdoch Mann.
  • C. Elaine Herzberg
    Elaine Herzberg was a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, who became the first person killed by a self-driving car when she was struck by an autonomous Uber test vehicle in 2018.
  • D. Dorothy Dorman
    Dorothy Dorman was the mother of Scottish actor and musician David McCallum, known for his roles in "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and "NCIS."
  • E. Maxine Greene
    Maxine Greene was an influential American educational philosopher and social theorist known for her work on aesthetic education, imagination, and the role of the arts in fostering social justice in schools.
  • 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_69d827980cbc8190a0c569ae3940a1d9 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded5f883288190af602633fa7d6860 completed April 15, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe6b65ac5c81908691de1161d07de0 completed May 8, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe6c68c46881909e7c748c0dff73d5 completed May 8, 2026, 11:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe6d1eea60819087ca2ebc7d0a8994 completed May 8, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:10 a.m.