Triple

T7166449
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Richard Steele E167079 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Mary Scurlock
Mary Scurlock was the wife of English essayist and politician Sir Richard Steele, remembered in part through his affectionate letters to her that reveal much about his personal life and character.
E662699 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 Scurlock | Statement: [Richard Steele, spouse, Mary Scurlock]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Scurlock
Context triple: [Richard Steele, spouse, Mary Scurlock]
  • A. Mary McBride Smith
    Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
  • B. Shirley Franklin
    Shirley Franklin is an American politician who served as the first female mayor of Atlanta and the first African-American woman to serve as mayor of a major Southern city.
  • C. Elouise Sidwell
    Elouise Sidwell was the wife of American composer and television theme music writer Earle Hagen.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Catherine Johnson
    Catherine Johnson is a creator or author known for her work associated with Bill Anderson.
  • 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 Scurlock
Triple: [Richard Steele, spouse, Mary Scurlock]
Generated description
Mary Scurlock was the wife of English essayist and politician Sir Richard Steele, remembered in part through his affectionate letters to her that reveal much about his personal life and character.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Scurlock
Target entity description: Mary Scurlock was the wife of English essayist and politician Sir Richard Steele, remembered in part through his affectionate letters to her that reveal much about his personal life and character.
  • A. Mary McBride Smith
    Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
  • B. Shirley Franklin
    Shirley Franklin is an American politician who served as the first female mayor of Atlanta and the first African-American woman to serve as mayor of a major Southern city.
  • C. Elouise Sidwell
    Elouise Sidwell was the wife of American composer and television theme music writer Earle Hagen.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Catherine Johnson
    Catherine Johnson is a creator or author known for her work associated with Bill Anderson.
  • 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_69c68888c10c819095e0383020225758 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e85a07388190a07054ef12870fa1 completed March 27, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c81eaa62dc8190b6a3d39ee3e1f3a5 completed March 28, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c81f9b565881909bebcc3112037f52 completed March 28, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8207912f4819086e99ed441bee805 completed March 28, 2026, 6:39 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:48 p.m.