Triple

T5152769
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur E116235 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Ellen Lewis Herndon
Ellen Lewis Herndon was the wife of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur and served as First Lady in a social and symbolic capacity despite dying before he took office.
E498568 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: Ellen Lewis Herndon | Statement: [Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, birthName, Ellen Lewis Herndon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellen Lewis Herndon
Context triple: [Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, birthName, Ellen Lewis Herndon]
  • A. Mary Maxcy Herndon
    Mary Maxcy Herndon was the wife of American lawyer and Abraham Lincoln’s law partner William H. Herndon.
  • B. Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks
    Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks was the wife of U.S. Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks and an American political hostess active in 19th-century public life.
  • C. Sarah Pierpont Edwards
    Sarah Pierpont Edwards was an 18th-century American religious figure and diarist known for her deep piety, influential role in the First Great Awakening, and partnership in ministry with theologian Jonathan Edwards.
  • D. Mary Jennings
    Mary Jennings was the first wife of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
  • E. Julia Agnes Washington Bond
    Julia Agnes Washington Bond was the mother of civil rights leader Julian Bond and a significant figure in his family’s African American intellectual and activist heritage.
  • 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: Ellen Lewis Herndon
Triple: [Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, birthName, Ellen Lewis Herndon]
Generated description
Ellen Lewis Herndon was the wife of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur and served as First Lady in a social and symbolic capacity despite dying before he took office.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellen Lewis Herndon
Target entity description: Ellen Lewis Herndon was the wife of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur and served as First Lady in a social and symbolic capacity despite dying before he took office.
  • A. Mary Maxcy Herndon
    Mary Maxcy Herndon was the wife of American lawyer and Abraham Lincoln’s law partner William H. Herndon.
  • B. Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks
    Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks was the wife of U.S. Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks and an American political hostess active in 19th-century public life.
  • C. Sarah Pierpont Edwards
    Sarah Pierpont Edwards was an 18th-century American religious figure and diarist known for her deep piety, influential role in the First Great Awakening, and partnership in ministry with theologian Jonathan Edwards.
  • D. Mary Tabb Bolling
    Mary Tabb Bolling was a 19th-century American woman of the Virginia gentry, best known as the wife of Confederate cavalry general and planter William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, the second son of Robert E. Lee.
  • E. Mary Jennings
    Mary Jennings was the first wife of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
  • 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_69bd445d94788190b72e2cc563120995 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd78daab708190a42734a14dddb2fc completed March 20, 2026, 4:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bed0099afc8190badca81bd5efb8f6 completed March 21, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bed3f4af288190beec97356b21f990 completed March 21, 2026, 5:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bed49625688190972acb1cb0c2a83b completed March 21, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:44 p.m.