Triple

T5359244
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Dillinger E102777 entity
Predicate parent P120 FINISHED
Object Mary Ellen Lancaster
Mary Ellen Lancaster was the mother of the infamous American bank robber John Dillinger.
E570204 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: Mary Ellen Lancaster | Statement: [John Dillinger, parent, Mary Ellen Lancaster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Ellen Lancaster
Context triple: [John Dillinger, parent, Mary Ellen Lancaster]
  • A. Mary Ellen
    Mary Ellen is a feminine given name of English origin, often used as a compound of "Mary" and "Ellen."
  • B. Marian McAlpin
    Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
  • C. Mary Easty
    Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
  • D. Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
    Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
  • E. Mary Ann Bertles
    Mary Ann Bertles was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
  • 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: Mary Ellen Lancaster
Triple: [John Dillinger, parent, Mary Ellen Lancaster]
Generated description
Mary Ellen Lancaster was the mother of the infamous American bank robber John Dillinger.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Ellen Lancaster
Target entity description: Mary Ellen Lancaster was the mother of the infamous American bank robber John Dillinger.
  • A. Mary Ellen
    Mary Ellen is a feminine given name of English origin, often used as a compound of "Mary" and "Ellen."
  • B. Marian McAlpin
    Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
  • C. Mary Easty
    Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
  • D. Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
    Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
  • E. Mary Ann Bertles
    Mary Ann Bertles was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
  • 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_69bd43d8f7248190b64c140734b5c9a8 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd86330e4c8190b5452226886287b3 completed March 20, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c1351fb4a88190bb12f3a5f8cd92ac completed March 23, 2026, 12:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1369fb3648190874e7bbe4a6fd737 completed March 23, 2026, 12:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c136fad48881908b449b8b411c3fc8 completed March 23, 2026, 12:50 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:02 p.m.