Triple

T7588256
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sally Hemings E179669 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Harriet Hemings
Harriet Hemings was the mixed-race daughter of enslaved woman Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation, who later left Monticello and is believed to have passed into white society.
E678136 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: Harriet Hemings | Statement: [Sally Hemings, child, Harriet Hemings]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harriet Hemings
Context triple: [Sally Hemings, child, Harriet Hemings]
  • A. Sally Hemings
    Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by Thomas Jefferson, widely believed to have had a long-term intimate relationship and several children with him at Monticello.
  • B. Betty Hemings
    Betty Hemings was an enslaved woman at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and the matriarch of the influential Hemings family, whose descendants played a significant role in American history.
  • C. Henrietta Wilson
    Henrietta "Hen" Wilson is a compassionate and skilled Los Angeles Fire Department paramedic and member of the 118, featured as a central character on the television series 9-1-1.
  • D. Beverly Hemings
    Beverly Hemings was one of the mixed-race children of Sally Hemings, historically associated with Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and the broader Hemings-Jefferson family legacy.
  • E. Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
    Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson was an American planter's daughter who became the wife of future U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and served as the mistress of Monticello until her death in 1782.
  • 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: Harriet Hemings
Triple: [Sally Hemings, child, Harriet Hemings]
Generated description
Harriet Hemings was the mixed-race daughter of enslaved woman Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation, who later left Monticello and is believed to have passed into white society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harriet Hemings
Target entity description: Harriet Hemings was the mixed-race daughter of enslaved woman Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation, who later left Monticello and is believed to have passed into white society.
  • A. Sally Hemings
    Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by Thomas Jefferson, widely believed to have had a long-term intimate relationship and several children with him at Monticello.
  • B. Betty Hemings
    Betty Hemings was an enslaved woman at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and the matriarch of the influential Hemings family, whose descendants played a significant role in American history.
  • C. Henrietta Wilson
    Henrietta "Hen" Wilson is a compassionate and skilled Los Angeles Fire Department paramedic and member of the 118, featured as a central character on the television series 9-1-1.
  • D. Beverly Hemings
    Beverly Hemings was one of the mixed-race children of Sally Hemings, historically associated with Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and the broader Hemings-Jefferson family legacy.
  • E. Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
    Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson was an American planter's daughter who became the wife of future U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and served as the mistress of Monticello until her death in 1782.
  • 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_69c69f335248819093c1006f30513708 completed March 27, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f99875908190b09584cf13ea1e08 completed March 27, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c87080c19c8190ba6a632f6f277621 completed March 29, 2026, 12:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c873e039908190a9ca7fa7294bff53 completed March 29, 2026, 12:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c874347ebc8190829d5304c7744bd6 completed March 29, 2026, 12:37 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:52 p.m.