Triple

T2255924
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Martha Carrier E49723 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Thomas Carrier
Thomas Carrier was a 17th-century New England colonist, reputedly of great age and possibly Welsh origin, known primarily as the husband of Martha Carrier, who was executed during the Salem witch trials.
E249067 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: Thomas Carrier | Statement: [Martha Carrier, spouse, Thomas Carrier]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Carrier
Context triple: [Martha Carrier, spouse, Thomas Carrier]
  • A. Michael Athans
    Michael Athans was a prominent control theorist and MIT professor known for his pioneering contributions to modern control theory and systems engineering.
  • B. Stephen Edward Smith
    Stephen Edward Smith was an American lawyer, political strategist, and businessman closely associated with the Kennedy family through both marriage and his work on their political campaigns.
  • C. John Stonehouse
    John Stonehouse was a British Labour politician and former cabinet minister best known for faking his own death in 1974 in an attempt to escape financial and legal troubles.
  • D. Ed Scott
    Ed Scott is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of BEA Systems, a major enterprise software company later acquired by Oracle.
  • E. John Hager
    John Hager was an American Republican politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and later held senior roles in the U.S. Department of Education and the Republican National Committee.
  • 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: Thomas Carrier
Triple: [Martha Carrier, spouse, Thomas Carrier]
Generated description
Thomas Carrier was a 17th-century New England colonist, reputedly of great age and possibly Welsh origin, known primarily as the husband of Martha Carrier, who was executed during the Salem witch trials.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Carrier
Target entity description: Thomas Carrier was a 17th-century New England colonist, reputedly of great age and possibly Welsh origin, known primarily as the husband of Martha Carrier, who was executed during the Salem witch trials.
  • A. Michael Athans
    Michael Athans was a prominent control theorist and MIT professor known for his pioneering contributions to modern control theory and systems engineering.
  • B. Stephen Edward Smith
    Stephen Edward Smith was an American lawyer, political strategist, and businessman closely associated with the Kennedy family through both marriage and his work on their political campaigns.
  • C. John Stonehouse
    John Stonehouse was a British Labour politician and former cabinet minister best known for faking his own death in 1974 in an attempt to escape financial and legal troubles.
  • D. Ed Scott
    Ed Scott is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of BEA Systems, a major enterprise software company later acquired by Oracle.
  • E. John Hager
    John Hager was an American Republican politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and later held senior roles in the U.S. Department of Education and the Republican National Committee.
  • 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_69a88aaa9250819095e127d0d77e8a32 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc1559ff481908efe3f214b2570dc completed March 7, 2026, 6:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6b1fc8808190aebc534ea5adb534 completed March 9, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6c87e3108190bc3852b3ebdba45a completed March 9, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6d0f723c8190bf0f91dad961e377 completed March 9, 2026, 6:47 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.