Triple

T386525
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John H. Hammond Jr. E8789 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Esme O'Brien Sarnoff
Esme O'Brien Sarnoff was the wife of influential American record producer and talent scout John H. Hammond Jr.
E48669 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: Esme O'Brien Sarnoff | Statement: [John H. Hammond Jr., spouse, Esme O'Brien Sarnoff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Esme O'Brien Sarnoff
Context triple: [John H. Hammond Jr., spouse, Esme O'Brien Sarnoff]
  • A. David Sarnoff
    David Sarnoff was a pioneering American radio and television executive who led RCA and helped shape the development and commercialization of broadcast media in the 20th century.
  • B. Walter A. Brown
    Walter A. Brown was an American sports executive best known for helping establish the NBA and building the Boston Celtics into a championship franchise.
  • C. George Palmer Putnam
    George Palmer Putnam was a prominent 19th-century American publisher and bookseller who played a key role in shaping the U.S. literary and cultural landscape.
  • D. Lucile Salter Packard
    Lucile Salter Packard was an American philanthropist and children’s health advocate whose legacy includes the founding of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.
  • E. Henry Billings Brown
    Henry Billings Brown was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court best known for authoring the decision that upheld racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
  • 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: Esme O'Brien Sarnoff
Triple: [John H. Hammond Jr., spouse, Esme O'Brien Sarnoff]
Generated description
Esme O'Brien Sarnoff was the wife of influential American record producer and talent scout John H. Hammond Jr.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Esme O'Brien Sarnoff
Target entity description: Esme O'Brien Sarnoff was the wife of influential American record producer and talent scout John H. Hammond Jr.
  • A. David Sarnoff
    David Sarnoff was a pioneering American radio and television executive who led RCA and helped shape the development and commercialization of broadcast media in the 20th century.
  • B. Walter A. Brown
    Walter A. Brown was an American sports executive best known for helping establish the NBA and building the Boston Celtics into a championship franchise.
  • C. George Palmer Putnam
    George Palmer Putnam was a prominent 19th-century American publisher and bookseller who played a key role in shaping the U.S. literary and cultural landscape.
  • D. Lucile Salter Packard
    Lucile Salter Packard was an American philanthropist and children’s health advocate whose legacy includes the founding of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.
  • E. Henry Billings Brown
    Henry Billings Brown was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court best known for authoring the decision that upheld racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
  • 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_69a2e7f47dd08190a4e294ccbbe46cd4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec447b5481908a5a084787b44ced completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3fe9755c08190a6f046ca56531df5 completed March 1, 2026, 8:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3ff1563688190bd5a41ea3c4726a5 completed March 1, 2026, 8:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3ffb7c1f8819084d07b54e1688290 completed March 1, 2026, 8:58 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.