Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hal Foster E134592 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Helen Wells Foster
Helen Wells Foster was the wife of American cartoonist Hal Foster, renowned for creating the "Prince Valiant" comic strip.
E563152 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: Helen Wells Foster | Statement: [Hal Foster, spouse, Helen Wells Foster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Helen Wells Foster
Context triple: [Hal Foster, spouse, Helen Wells Foster]
  • A. Charlotte Phelan
    Charlotte Phelan is a wealthy, sharp-tongued Southern socialite and Skeeter’s mother in the film and novel "The Help."
  • B. Mildred Thompson
    Mildred Thompson was the wife of civil rights leader James Forman, associated with the mid-20th-century American civil rights movement.
  • C. Mildred Brown
    Mildred Brown was a prominent African American journalist and civil rights advocate, best known as the longtime publisher of the Omaha Star newspaper.
  • D. Adella Prentiss Hughes
    Adella Prentiss Hughes was an influential American concert manager and arts organizer, best known as a founder and long-time guiding force of The Cleveland Orchestra.
  • E. Lucille Wilson
    Lucille Wilson was the fourth wife of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, known for her long marriage to him and for preserving and promoting his legacy.
  • 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: Helen Wells Foster
Triple: [Hal Foster, spouse, Helen Wells Foster]
Generated description
Helen Wells Foster was the wife of American cartoonist Hal Foster, renowned for creating the "Prince Valiant" comic strip.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Helen Wells Foster
Target entity description: Helen Wells Foster was the wife of American cartoonist Hal Foster, renowned for creating the "Prince Valiant" comic strip.
  • A. Charlotte Phelan
    Charlotte Phelan is a wealthy, sharp-tongued Southern socialite and Skeeter’s mother in the film and novel "The Help."
  • B. Mildred Thompson
    Mildred Thompson was the wife of civil rights leader James Forman, associated with the mid-20th-century American civil rights movement.
  • C. Mildred Brown
    Mildred Brown was a prominent African American journalist and civil rights advocate, best known as the longtime publisher of the Omaha Star newspaper.
  • D. Adella Prentiss Hughes
    Adella Prentiss Hughes was an influential American concert manager and arts organizer, best known as a founder and long-time guiding force of The Cleveland Orchestra.
  • E. Lucille Wilson
    Lucille Wilson was the fourth wife of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, known for her long marriage to him and for preserving and promoting his legacy.
  • 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_69c00876a69881908088a2626d3b2666 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c056e108fc81908775d176ff960fad completed March 22, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c1139b44888190bfa12d19e99ee673 completed March 23, 2026, 10:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c11449a00081908e8e91790079da93 completed March 23, 2026, 10:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c114c85c0c8190934adc20ddd1898f completed March 23, 2026, 10:24 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:08 p.m.