Triple
T4368155
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Shimer College |
E98828
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Frances Shimer
Frances Shimer was an American educator and founder of the institution that later became Shimer College, known for her role in advancing progressive higher education.
|
E616289
|
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: Frances Shimer | Statement: [Shimer College, namedAfter, Frances Shimer]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frances Shimer Context triple: [Shimer College, namedAfter, Frances Shimer]
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A.
Ethel Gross
Ethel Gross was the first wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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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.
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C.
Helen Crump
Helen Crump is a schoolteacher and Andy Taylor’s love interest on *The Andy Griffith Show*, later becoming his wife in the series’ extended universe.
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D.
Marion Stein
Marion Stein was an Austrian-born British concert pianist and music patron who became known as the wife of Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe and later the Countess of Harewood.
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E.
Frances B. Miner
Frances B. Miner was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Devanter and a member of his prominent legal and political social circle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Frances Shimer Triple: [Shimer College, namedAfter, Frances Shimer]
Generated description
Frances Shimer was an American educator and founder of the institution that later became Shimer College, known for her role in advancing progressive higher education.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frances Shimer Target entity description: Frances Shimer was an American educator and founder of the institution that later became Shimer College, known for her role in advancing progressive higher education.
-
A.
Ethel Gross
Ethel Gross was the first wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
-
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.
Helen Crump
Helen Crump is a schoolteacher and Andy Taylor’s love interest on *The Andy Griffith Show*, later becoming his wife in the series’ extended universe.
-
D.
Marion Stein
Marion Stein was an Austrian-born British concert pianist and music patron who became known as the wife of Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe and later the Countess of Harewood.
-
E.
Frances B. Miner
Frances B. Miner was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Devanter and a member of his prominent legal and political social circle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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_69b3454db3708190aeafd814413c4c3d |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b352034d3881909ed4b2f9eef5e823 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 11:53 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c70ad71194819081361abadfc256ca |
completed | March 27, 2026, 10:55 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c70bbfd100819083c9d1fc94051abf |
completed | March 27, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c70c755054819087d0db6f94d69eae |
completed | March 27, 2026, 11:02 p.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:17 p.m.