Triple

T246699
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Norman Bethune E5053 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Bethune
Bethune is a surname most famously associated with Norman Bethune, a Canadian physician celebrated for his medical innovations and humanitarian work in wartime China.
E31761 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: Bethune | Statement: [Norman Bethune, familyName, Bethune]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bethune
Context triple: [Norman Bethune, familyName, Bethune]
  • A. Mary Easty
    Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
  • B. Pauli Murray College
    Pauli Murray College is one of Yale University's residential colleges, named after civil rights activist, lawyer, and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray.
  • C. Mary Louise Bell
    Mary Louise Bell was the first wife of renowned physicist Richard Feynman, whom he married after the death of his childhood sweetheart Arline Greenbaum.
  • D. Fanny Davis Whitfield
    Fanny Davis Whitfield was the mother of Louise Whitfield Carnegie, who became the wife of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
  • E. Isabel Carnes Church
    Isabel Carnes Church was the wife of prominent American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church and a member of the social circle surrounding the Hudson River School.
  • 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: Bethune
Triple: [Norman Bethune, familyName, Bethune]
Generated description
Bethune is a surname most famously associated with Norman Bethune, a Canadian physician celebrated for his medical innovations and humanitarian work in wartime China.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bethune
Target entity description: Bethune is a surname most famously associated with Norman Bethune, a Canadian physician celebrated for his medical innovations and humanitarian work in wartime China.
  • A. Mary Easty
    Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
  • B. Pauli Murray College
    Pauli Murray College is one of Yale University's residential colleges, named after civil rights activist, lawyer, and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray.
  • C. Mary Louise Bell
    Mary Louise Bell was the first wife of renowned physicist Richard Feynman, whom he married after the death of his childhood sweetheart Arline Greenbaum.
  • D. Fanny Davis Whitfield
    Fanny Davis Whitfield was the mother of Louise Whitfield Carnegie, who became the wife of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
  • E. Isabel Carnes Church
    Isabel Carnes Church was the wife of prominent American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church and a member of the social circle surrounding the Hudson River School.
  • 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_69a257c4bf688190a46ebbf411ab7473 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25d13b8088190a3f48f0388d57496 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a36cf64798819096218d320b00a3a9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a36d713d548190afadbc7ec7509d98 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a36e072f188190a0961926536659c1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:36 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:54 a.m.