Triple

T6914843
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Martin Feeney E160023 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford (born John Martin Feeney).
 E151870 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 McBride Smith | Statement: [John Martin Feeney, spouse, Mary McBride Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mary McBride Smith
Context triple: [John Martin Feeney, spouse, Mary McBride Smith]
  • A. Mary McBride Smith
    Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
  • B. Selma Florence Smith
    Selma Florence Smith was the wife of Harold H. Burton, an American politician and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • C. Mary Little
    Mary Little is a family member of Earl Little, known primarily through her relation to him.
  • D. Elouise Sidwell
    Elouise Sidwell was the wife of American composer and television theme music writer Earle Hagen.
  • E. Marion Brown
    Marion Brown was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer associated with the avant-garde and free jazz movements of the 1960s and beyond.
  • 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 McBride Smith
Triple: [John Martin Feeney, spouse, Mary McBride Smith]
Generated description
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford (born John Martin Feeney).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mary McBride Smith
Target entity description: Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford (born John Martin Feeney).
  • A. Mary McBride Smith chosen
    Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
  • B. Selma Florence Smith
    Selma Florence Smith was the wife of Harold H. Burton, an American politician and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • C. Mary Little
    Mary Little is a family member of Earl Little, known primarily through her relation to him.
  • D. Elouise Sidwell
    Elouise Sidwell was the wife of American composer and television theme music writer Earle Hagen.
  • E. Marion Brown
    Marion Brown was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer associated with the avant-garde and free jazz movements of the 1960s and beyond.
  • F. None of above.

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_69c6883ab1008190a07129ff06f625d9 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d9dda4108190a79a7841b0658a4d completed March 27, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7eeb79b9c819084738c207aa5c62d completed March 28, 2026, 3:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7efece4708190b27d973bce45f389 completed March 28, 2026, 3:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7f08355408190a6efdcf66fd3988e completed March 28, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:26 p.m.