Triple

T5068156
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elihu Yale E114193 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Catherine Hynmers
Catherine Hynmers was the wife of Elihu Yale, the British-American merchant and philanthropist after whom Yale University is named.
E496526 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: Catherine Hynmers | Statement: [Elihu Yale, spouse, Catherine Hynmers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catherine Hynmers
Context triple: [Elihu Yale, spouse, Catherine Hynmers]
  • A. Catherine Macmillan
    Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
  • B. Catherine Allerton
    Catherine Allerton was a member of the early colonial Allerton family associated with the Mayflower-era Pilgrims in 17th-century New England.
  • C. Catharine Jones
    Catharine Jones was the wife of prominent early 19th-century New York politician and governor DeWitt Clinton.
  • D. Catherine Melville
    Catherine Melville was a 19th-century American woman best known as a sister of the novelist Herman Melville.
  • E. Elizabeth Cranfield
    Elizabeth Cranfield was an English noblewoman of the early 17th century, best known as the mother of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby.
  • 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: Catherine Hynmers
Triple: [Elihu Yale, spouse, Catherine Hynmers]
Generated description
Catherine Hynmers was the wife of Elihu Yale, the British-American merchant and philanthropist after whom Yale University is named.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catherine Hynmers
Target entity description: Catherine Hynmers was the wife of Elihu Yale, the British-American merchant and philanthropist after whom Yale University is named.
  • A. Catherine Macmillan
    Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
  • B. Catherine Allerton
    Catherine Allerton was a member of the early colonial Allerton family associated with the Mayflower-era Pilgrims in 17th-century New England.
  • C. Catharine Jones
    Catharine Jones was the wife of prominent early 19th-century New York politician and governor DeWitt Clinton.
  • D. Catherine Melville
    Catherine Melville was a 19th-century American woman best known as a sister of the novelist Herman Melville.
  • E. Elizabeth Cranfield
    Elizabeth Cranfield was an English noblewoman of the early 17th century, best known as the mother of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby.
  • 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_69bd443cf28c8190ad371d603563dbdd completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd749dd1a08190858fa739df024eb4 completed March 20, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bec35c629c81909c3b0347861d544f completed March 21, 2026, 4:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bec505a5dc81908f79c1ade107c4ce completed March 21, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bec654fc4881909bf5458cdafc7ffd completed March 21, 2026, 4:24 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:39 p.m.