Triple

T1767264
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John J. McCloy E38791 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Ellen Zinsser McCloy
Ellen Zinsser McCloy was the wife of influential American lawyer and statesman John J. McCloy, who played major roles in U.S. and international policy in the mid-20th century.
E198056 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: Ellen Zinsser McCloy | Statement: [John J. McCloy, spouse, Ellen Zinsser McCloy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellen Zinsser McCloy
Context triple: [John J. McCloy, spouse, Ellen Zinsser McCloy]
  • A. Ethel Gross
    Ethel Gross was the first wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • B. Marion Post Wolcott
    Marion Post Wolcott was an American documentary photographer best known for her poignant images of rural poverty and everyday life in the United States during the Great Depression.
  • C. Anne Spencer Morrow
    Anne Spencer Morrow was an American author and aviator best known as the wife and flying partner of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
  • D. Ellen Ewing Sherman
    Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
  • E. Muriel Whiting
    Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
  • 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: Ellen Zinsser McCloy
Triple: [John J. McCloy, spouse, Ellen Zinsser McCloy]
Generated description
Ellen Zinsser McCloy was the wife of influential American lawyer and statesman John J. McCloy, who played major roles in U.S. and international policy in the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellen Zinsser McCloy
Target entity description: Ellen Zinsser McCloy was the wife of influential American lawyer and statesman John J. McCloy, who played major roles in U.S. and international policy in the mid-20th century.
  • A. Ethel Gross
    Ethel Gross was the first wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • B. Marion Post Wolcott
    Marion Post Wolcott was an American documentary photographer best known for her poignant images of rural poverty and everyday life in the United States during the Great Depression.
  • C. Anne Spencer Morrow
    Anne Spencer Morrow was an American author and aviator best known as the wife and flying partner of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
  • D. Ellen Ewing Sherman
    Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
  • E. Muriel Whiting
    Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
  • 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_69a8862d562481908d7025a1c1f67c0d completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa648bb44c81909245fb7ee23cb132 completed March 6, 2026, 5:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ada991564c81909ae00fdcb47f52af completed March 8, 2026, 4:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adab0295b8819092cb51082337b97b completed March 8, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adaea486d0819097357d881b70d114 completed March 8, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.