Triple

T4099796
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Barty E87911 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Shirley Bolingbroke
Shirley Bolingbroke was the wife of American actor and activist Billy Barty, known for her long marriage to him and support of his career and advocacy work.
E412803 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: Shirley Bolingbroke | Statement: [Billy Barty, spouse, Shirley Bolingbroke]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shirley Bolingbroke
Context triple: [Billy Barty, spouse, Shirley Bolingbroke]
  • A. Thomasine Clopton
    Thomasine Clopton was the first wife of John Winthrop, the future Puritan leader and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a member of an English gentry family.
  • B. Elizabeth de Clare
    Elizabeth de Clare was a 14th-century English noblewoman and wealthy heiress whose endowment helped found and shape Clare College at the University of Cambridge.
  • C. Margaret Wake
    Margaret Wake was the wife of British colonial governor William Tryon and the namesake of Wake County, North Carolina.
  • D. Mary Grainger Blount
    Mary Grainger Blount was an American woman after whom the city of Maryville, Tennessee, was named, reflecting her prominence and influence in the region’s early history.
  • E. Eleanor Bold
    Eleanor Bold is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "Barchester Towers," known as a young, independent widow whose romantic choices and moral integrity drive much of the story's social and clerical drama.
  • 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: Shirley Bolingbroke
Triple: [Billy Barty, spouse, Shirley Bolingbroke]
Generated description
Shirley Bolingbroke was the wife of American actor and activist Billy Barty, known for her long marriage to him and support of his career and advocacy work.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shirley Bolingbroke
Target entity description: Shirley Bolingbroke was the wife of American actor and activist Billy Barty, known for her long marriage to him and support of his career and advocacy work.
  • A. Thomasine Clopton
    Thomasine Clopton was the first wife of John Winthrop, the future Puritan leader and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a member of an English gentry family.
  • B. Elizabeth de Clare
    Elizabeth de Clare was a 14th-century English noblewoman and wealthy heiress whose endowment helped found and shape Clare College at the University of Cambridge.
  • C. Margaret Wake
    Margaret Wake was the wife of British colonial governor William Tryon and the namesake of Wake County, North Carolina.
  • D. Mary Grainger Blount
    Mary Grainger Blount was an American woman after whom the city of Maryville, Tennessee, was named, reflecting her prominence and influence in the region’s early history.
  • E. Eleanor Bold
    Eleanor Bold is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "Barchester Towers," known as a young, independent widow whose romantic choices and moral integrity drive much of the story's social and clerical drama.
  • 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_69aed94564cc8190a9c1457daedb6e7f completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefd0d9c508190b8aedf83f3310513 completed March 9, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b56b7585bc81909dc2c02e60a55def completed March 14, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b56c3a4b708190a55027fd3b2b76e0 completed March 14, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b56cc5c704819083dac59bf7b3cb83 completed March 14, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:40 p.m.