Triple
T4849010
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Mary Jefferson Eppes |
E108364
|
entity |
| Predicate | spouse |
P13
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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]
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.