Triple

T2874731
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William R. Day E56848 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Mary Elizabeth Schaefer
Mary Elizabeth Schaefer was the wife of William R. Day, an American diplomat and U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
 E513543 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: Mary Elizabeth Schaefer | Statement: [William R. Day, spouse, Mary Elizabeth Schaefer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mary Elizabeth Schaefer
Context triple: [William R. Day, spouse, Mary Elizabeth Schaefer]
  • A. Lottie Landis
    Lottie Landis was an American silent-era film actress and the sister of actor Cullen Landis.
  • B. Mary Horstmann McShain
    Mary Horstmann McShain was an American philanthropist and art collector known for her charitable work and for jointly donating significant historic properties with her husband, contractor John McShain.
  • C. Mildred Riddle
    Mildred Riddle was the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, whom he married while still a young man before his rise to national prominence.
  • D. Mildred Watkins
    Mildred Watkins was the wife of American politician and baseball commissioner Happy Chandler.
  • E. Fay Hauser
    Fay Hauser is an American actress and director known for her work in film and television since the 1970s, including roles in notable dramas and comedies.
  • 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: Mary Elizabeth Schaefer
Triple: [William R. Day, spouse, Mary Elizabeth Schaefer]
Generated description
Mary Elizabeth Schaefer was the wife of William R. Day, an American diplomat and U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mary Elizabeth Schaefer
Target entity description: Mary Elizabeth Schaefer was the wife of William R. Day, an American diplomat and U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
  • A. Lottie Landis
    Lottie Landis was an American silent-era film actress and the sister of actor Cullen Landis.
  • B. Mary Horstmann McShain
    Mary Horstmann McShain was an American philanthropist and art collector known for her charitable work and for jointly donating significant historic properties with her husband, contractor John McShain.
  • C. Mildred Riddle
    Mildred Riddle was the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, whom he married while still a young man before his rise to national prominence.
  • D. Mildred Watkins
    Mildred Watkins was the wife of American politician and baseball commissioner Happy Chandler.
  • E. Fay Hauser
    Fay Hauser is an American actress and director known for her work in film and television since the 1970s, including roles in notable dramas and comedies.
  • 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_69ab4a4ced288190ab6d3e062d10f7f6 completed March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abe004a64481908f1897d9054a7368 completed March 7, 2026, 8:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf219021d081909d814d0dbf564501 completed March 21, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf22669b4081909a0126e0d8e69fd2 completed March 21, 2026, 10:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf232ed3508190880aab032f8f0b34 completed March 21, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:03 p.m.