Triple

T7352679
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kate Sheppard E169540 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Walter Allen Sheppard
Walter Allen Sheppard was the husband of prominent New Zealand suffragist and women's rights leader Kate Sheppard.
E705773 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: Walter Allen Sheppard | Statement: [Kate Sheppard, spouse, Walter Allen Sheppard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Allen Sheppard
Context triple: [Kate Sheppard, spouse, Walter Allen Sheppard]
  • A. William Rutherford Mead
    William Rutherford Mead was an American architect best known as one of the principal partners in the influential late-19th- and early-20th-century architectural firm McKim, Mead & White.
  • B. Reginald S. Macdonald
    Reginald S. Macdonald was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Dent d'Hérens in the Alps.
  • C. Walter Frederick Campbell
    Walter Frederick Campbell was a 19th-century Scottish landowner and politician best known for developing parts of the island of Islay, including establishing the village of Port Ellen.
  • D. John W. Alexander
    John W. Alexander was an American portrait and mural painter associated with the late 19th-century art world and known for his elegant, atmospheric style.
  • E. George M. Murray
    George M. Murray was a religious leader and co-author of the 1963 "A Call for Unity" statement by white clergymen that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
  • 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: Walter Allen Sheppard
Triple: [Kate Sheppard, spouse, Walter Allen Sheppard]
Generated description
Walter Allen Sheppard was the husband of prominent New Zealand suffragist and women's rights leader Kate Sheppard.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Allen Sheppard
Target entity description: Walter Allen Sheppard was the husband of prominent New Zealand suffragist and women's rights leader Kate Sheppard.
  • A. William Rutherford Mead
    William Rutherford Mead was an American architect best known as one of the principal partners in the influential late-19th- and early-20th-century architectural firm McKim, Mead & White.
  • B. Reginald S. Macdonald
    Reginald S. Macdonald was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Dent d'Hérens in the Alps.
  • C. Walter Frederick Campbell
    Walter Frederick Campbell was a 19th-century Scottish landowner and politician best known for developing parts of the island of Islay, including establishing the village of Port Ellen.
  • D. John W. Alexander
    John W. Alexander was an American portrait and mural painter associated with the late 19th-century art world and known for his elegant, atmospheric style.
  • E. George M. Murray
    George M. Murray was a religious leader and co-author of the 1963 "A Call for Unity" statement by white clergymen that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
  • 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_69c68a5878888190968ce4d04db8d69f completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f10b4adc81909a5a0eacaf2b1887 completed March 27, 2026, 9:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc55bdf8c0819083b61987d70f21ca completed March 31, 2026, 11:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc5822581481908a143376bee599ec completed March 31, 2026, 11:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc58f549388190ba6c8b41c0820cd6 completed March 31, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:05 p.m.