Triple

T15010584
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henrietta Lacks E377824 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Elsie Lacks
Elsie Lacks was the institutionalized daughter of Henrietta Lacks whose life and treatment later drew attention in discussions of medical ethics, disability, and the Lacks family history.
E1133412 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 Lacks | Statement: [Henrietta Lacks, child, Elsie Lacks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elsie Lacks
Context triple: [Henrietta Lacks, child, Elsie Lacks]
  • A. Henrietta Lacks
    Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman whose cancer cells, taken without her consent in 1951, became the first immortal human cell line (HeLa) and revolutionized medical research.
  • B. HeLa
    HeLa is an immortal human cell line derived from cervical cancer cells taken from Henrietta Lacks in 1951, widely used in biomedical research and pivotal to numerous scientific breakthroughs.
  • C. Henrietta Vinton Davis
    Henrietta Vinton Davis was an African American elocutionist, actress, and activist who became a prominent leader in Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association in the early 20th century.
  • D. Eunice Bullard
    Eunice Bullard was an American writer and social reformer better known by her married name, Eunice Bullard Beecher, the wife of prominent clergyman Henry Ward Beecher.
  • E. Florence Stanley
    Florence Stanley was an American character actress best known for her roles on the television series "Barney Miller" and "My Two Dads."
  • 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 Lacks
Triple: [Henrietta Lacks, child, Elsie Lacks]
Generated description
Elsie Lacks was the institutionalized daughter of Henrietta Lacks whose life and treatment later drew attention in discussions of medical ethics, disability, and the Lacks family history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elsie Lacks
Target entity description: Elsie Lacks was the institutionalized daughter of Henrietta Lacks whose life and treatment later drew attention in discussions of medical ethics, disability, and the Lacks family history.
  • A. Henrietta Lacks
    Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman whose cancer cells, taken without her consent in 1951, became the first immortal human cell line (HeLa) and revolutionized medical research.
  • B. HeLa
    HeLa is an immortal human cell line derived from cervical cancer cells taken from Henrietta Lacks in 1951, widely used in biomedical research and pivotal to numerous scientific breakthroughs.
  • C. Henrietta Vinton Davis
    Henrietta Vinton Davis was an African American elocutionist, actress, and activist who became a prominent leader in Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association in the early 20th century.
  • D. Eunice Bullard
    Eunice Bullard was an American writer and social reformer better known by her married name, Eunice Bullard Beecher, the wife of prominent clergyman Henry Ward Beecher.
  • E. Florence Stanley
    Florence Stanley was an American character actress best known for her roles on the television series "Barney Miller" and "My Two Dads."
  • 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_69d85cd3a3c881908c71fc424d459c17 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded734943481908dad4ceed4fe850c completed April 15, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe9dce8240819097efddb43b79ad4b completed May 9, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe9f58e39081909be07cda05484fb3 completed May 9, 2026, 2:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe9ff62eb081908e170e099c99283b completed May 9, 2026, 2:46 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:55 a.m.