Triple

T372388
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Barack Obama Sr. E8294 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Ruth Beatrice Baker
Ruth Beatrice Baker is a British-born educator best known as the third wife of Barack Obama Sr. and stepmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
E174754 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: Ruth Beatrice Baker | Statement: [Barack Obama Sr., spouse, Ruth Beatrice Baker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ruth Beatrice Baker
Context triple: [Barack Obama Sr., spouse, Ruth Beatrice Baker]
  • A. Dorothy Brower Barkley
    Dorothy Brower Barkley was the second wife of U.S. Vice President Alben W. Barkley, known primarily for her role as his spouse and partner in public life.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Elsie Ann Ford
    Elsie Ann Ford was an American actress and the mother of actor Robert Downey Jr.
  • D. Ruth Snyder
    Ruth Snyder was an American woman infamously executed in 1928 for the murder of her husband, a case that became notorious due to a secretly photographed image of her electrocution published in the press.
  • E. Ethel Wayman
    Ethel Wayman was the wife of British humorist and novelist P. G. Wodehouse.
  • 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: Ruth Beatrice Baker
Triple: [Barack Obama Sr., spouse, Ruth Beatrice Baker]
Generated description
Ruth Beatrice Baker is a British-born educator best known as the third wife of Barack Obama Sr. and stepmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ruth Beatrice Baker
Target entity description: Ruth Beatrice Baker is a British-born educator best known as the third wife of Barack Obama Sr. and stepmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
  • A. Dorothy Brower Barkley
    Dorothy Brower Barkley was the second wife of U.S. Vice President Alben W. Barkley, known primarily for her role as his spouse and partner in public life.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Elsie Ann Ford
    Elsie Ann Ford was an American actress and the mother of actor Robert Downey Jr.
  • D. Ruth Snyder
    Ruth Snyder was an American woman infamously executed in 1928 for the murder of her husband, a case that became notorious due to a secretly photographed image of her electrocution published in the press.
  • E. Ethel Wayman
    Ethel Wayman was the wife of British humorist and novelist P. G. Wodehouse.
  • 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_69a2e7f2ec648190b42bc7db424f8109 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec018d508190b5687a9ba90b3092 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad292fbfe88190816bc5d4f0e56e9f completed March 8, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad29b9ffa88190a047b213cbfd4c84 completed March 8, 2026, 7:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad2a2d6b7c819083042c3a36fb55e4 completed March 8, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.