Triple

T6846653
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron E157911 entity
Predicate mother P120 FINISHED
Object Mary Sheffield
Mary Sheffield was an English noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, notable as the daughter of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, and the mother of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
E654636 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 Sheffield | Statement: [Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, mother, Mary Sheffield]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Sheffield
Context triple: [Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, mother, Mary Sheffield]
  • A. Maria St. John Sheffield
    Maria St. John Sheffield was the wife of American railroad executive and philanthropist Joseph E. Sheffield, associated with 19th-century New England society.
  • B. Elisabeth Scott
    Elisabeth Scott was a pioneering British architect best known for designing the modernist Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
  • C. Mary Ryall
    Mary Ryall is the daughter of mathematician and educationalist Mary Everest Boole.
  • D. Elizabeth French
    Elizabeth French was the wife of John Tillotson, the 17th-century Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • E. Elizabeth Mansfield
    Elizabeth Mansfield is the namesake of Mansfield College, Oxford, recognized for her significant contributions that led to the college bearing her name.
  • 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 Sheffield
Triple: [Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, mother, Mary Sheffield]
Generated description
Mary Sheffield was an English noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, notable as the daughter of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, and the mother of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Sheffield
Target entity description: Mary Sheffield was an English noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, notable as the daughter of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, and the mother of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
  • A. Maria St. John Sheffield
    Maria St. John Sheffield was the wife of American railroad executive and philanthropist Joseph E. Sheffield, associated with 19th-century New England society.
  • B. Elisabeth Scott
    Elisabeth Scott was a pioneering British architect best known for designing the modernist Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
  • C. Mary Ryall
    Mary Ryall is the daughter of mathematician and educationalist Mary Everest Boole.
  • D. Elizabeth French
    Elizabeth French was the wife of John Tillotson, the 17th-century Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • E. Elizabeth Mansfield
    Elizabeth Mansfield is the namesake of Mansfield College, Oxford, recognized for her significant contributions that led to the college bearing her name.
  • 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_69c6882ed4c081909dc465a7cf8838be completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d7cd0e64819097c9c211df8bce54 completed March 27, 2026, 7:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7e4fd792481909251c8749d7a11a3 completed March 28, 2026, 2:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7e5df5eb08190a22e53b95fbc23f2 completed March 28, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7e64fe200819081901b32523a5fa5 completed March 28, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:20 p.m.