Triple

T580104
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Katharine Hepburn E15036 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Thomas Hepburn Jr.
Thomas Hepburn Jr. was the brother of acclaimed American actress Katharine Hepburn and a member of the prominent Hepburn family.
 E145656 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: Thomas Hepburn Jr. | Statement: [Katharine Hepburn, sibling, Thomas Hepburn Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Hepburn Jr.
Context triple: [Katharine Hepburn, sibling, Thomas Hepburn Jr.]
  • A. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • B. John Mason
    John Mason was a 17th-century English colonial military leader in New England, best known for his pivotal and controversial role in the Pequot War.
  • C. Andrew Hamilton
    Andrew Hamilton was a prominent colonial American lawyer best known for defending John Peter Zenger in a landmark 1735 freedom of the press trial.
  • D. Archibald Alexander
    Archibald Alexander was a prominent early 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian and educator who played a key role in shaping Reformed theological education in the United States.
  • E. Dudley Field Malone
    Dudley Field Malone was an American lawyer, politician, and civil liberties advocate best known for his role on the defense team in the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial challenging laws against teaching evolution.
  • 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: Thomas Hepburn Jr.
Triple: [Katharine Hepburn, sibling, Thomas Hepburn Jr.]
Generated description
Thomas Hepburn Jr. was the brother of acclaimed American actress Katharine Hepburn and a member of the prominent Hepburn family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Hepburn Jr.
Target entity description: Thomas Hepburn Jr. was the brother of acclaimed American actress Katharine Hepburn and a member of the prominent Hepburn family.
  • A. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • B. John Mason
    John Mason was a 17th-century English colonial military leader in New England, best known for his pivotal and controversial role in the Pequot War.
  • C. Andrew Hamilton
    Andrew Hamilton was a prominent colonial American lawyer best known for defending John Peter Zenger in a landmark 1735 freedom of the press trial.
  • D. Archibald Alexander
    Archibald Alexander was a prominent early 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian and educator who played a key role in shaping Reformed theological education in the United States.
  • E. Dudley Field Malone
    Dudley Field Malone was an American lawyer, politician, and civil liberties advocate best known for his role on the defense team in the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial challenging laws against teaching evolution.
  • 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_69a4935783b8819082b77726ec10cc42 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49b82b5248190ac863407e8207a3b completed March 1, 2026, 8:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aca2c23ed481909453508bec526fd0 completed March 7, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aca364eb348190870d0cc731f67dc9 completed March 7, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aca3a7fa848190ac31ff88428de59c completed March 7, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.