Triple

T4849010
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mary Jefferson Eppes E108364 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object John Wayles Eppes
John Wayles Eppes was an American lawyer, planter, and politician from Virginia who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate in the early 19th century and was closely connected to Thomas Jefferson’s family.
E473534 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: John Wayles Eppes | Statement: [Mary Jefferson Eppes, spouse, John Wayles Eppes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Wayles Eppes
Context triple: [Mary Jefferson Eppes, spouse, John Wayles Eppes]
  • A. Mary Jefferson Eppes
    Mary Jefferson Eppes was the younger daughter of Thomas Jefferson, remembered for her close relationship with her father and her early death in the early 19th century.
  • B. Nathaniel Peabody
    Nathaniel Peabody was a 19th-century American dentist and the patriarch of the Peabody family, known as the father of artist and writer Sophia Peabody Hawthorne.
  • C. William Legrand
    William Legrand is the eccentric, reclusive amateur cryptographer and treasure hunter who serves as the protagonist of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Gold-Bug.”
  • D. Jeremy Belknap
    Jeremy Belknap was an American clergyman and historian best known for his pioneering historical writings on New Hampshire and for helping to establish organized historical scholarship in the United States.
  • E. Martha Eppes Wayles
    Martha Eppes Wayles was a colonial Virginia woman of the planter elite and the mother of Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, the wife of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
  • 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: John Wayles Eppes
Triple: [Mary Jefferson Eppes, spouse, John Wayles Eppes]
Generated description
John Wayles Eppes was an American lawyer, planter, and politician from Virginia who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate in the early 19th century and was closely connected to Thomas Jefferson’s family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Wayles Eppes
Target entity description: John Wayles Eppes was an American lawyer, planter, and politician from Virginia who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate in the early 19th century and was closely connected to Thomas Jefferson’s family.
  • A. Mary Jefferson Eppes
    Mary Jefferson Eppes was the younger daughter of Thomas Jefferson, remembered for her close relationship with her father and her early death in the early 19th century.
  • B. Nathaniel Peabody
    Nathaniel Peabody was a 19th-century American dentist and the patriarch of the Peabody family, known as the father of artist and writer Sophia Peabody Hawthorne.
  • C. William Legrand
    William Legrand is the eccentric, reclusive amateur cryptographer and treasure hunter who serves as the protagonist of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Gold-Bug.”
  • D. Jeremy Belknap
    Jeremy Belknap was an American clergyman and historian best known for his pioneering historical writings on New Hampshire and for helping to establish organized historical scholarship in the United States.
  • E. Martha Eppes Wayles
    Martha Eppes Wayles was a colonial Virginia woman of the planter elite and the mother of Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, the wife of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
  • 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_69bd4409b264819085ab855f3eb5381a completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d1c5594819094fe021d7717032d completed March 20, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5cdafb3481908594ae883c6e9872 completed March 21, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5d4f2f908190b305996875f1f956 completed March 21, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be5dcbb58c8190bbcf75c570720ad6 completed March 21, 2026, 8:58 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.