Triple
T19030763
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Old Maid |
E465728
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableCastMember |
P7010
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Helen Menken |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Helen Menken | Statement: [The Old Maid, notableCastMember, Helen Menken]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Helen Menken Context triple: [The Old Maid, notableCastMember, Helen Menken]
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A.
Helen Menken
chosen
Helen Menken was an American stage actress prominent in early 20th-century Broadway theatre and an influential figure in the New York theatrical community.
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B.
Marie Menken
Marie Menken was an influential American experimental filmmaker and visual artist whose innovative, lyrical short films made her a central figure in New York’s underground cinema scene of the mid-20th century.
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C.
Helen Gardner
Helen Gardner is a noted literary scholar and critic, best known for her influential work on English poetry and Renaissance literature.
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D.
Helen Fleischman
Helen Fleischman was the American wife of Giorgio Joyce, son of the Irish writer James Joyce, and a figure on the periphery of the modernist literary circle surrounding the Joyce family.
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E.
Helen Crump
Helen Crump is a schoolteacher and Andy Taylor’s love interest on *The Andy Griffith Show*, later becoming his wife in the series’ extended universe.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8dd0359648190bc2a9202c5cf29d2 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5d7404d748190bcb51692fb822fd4 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 7:35 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:02 p.m.