Triple

T8101472
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lincoln assassination conspirators E189122 entity
Predicate hasMemberRole P161 FINISHED
Object Edman Spangler – stagehand who assisted Booth at Ford’s Theatre
Edman Spangler was a stagehand at Ford’s Theatre who was implicated as a minor accomplice in John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
E711516 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: Edman Spangler – stagehand who assisted Booth at Ford’s Theatre | Statement: [Lincoln assassination conspirators, hasMemberRole, Edman Spangler – stagehand who assisted Booth at Ford’s Theatre]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edman Spangler – stagehand who assisted Booth at Ford’s Theatre
Context triple: [Lincoln assassination conspirators, hasMemberRole, Edman Spangler – stagehand who assisted Booth at Ford’s Theatre]
  • A. Junius Brutus Booth Jr.
    Junius Brutus Booth Jr. was a 19th-century American stage actor and theater manager, best known as the elder brother of John Wilkes Booth and Edwin Booth.
  • B. Junius Brutus Booth
    Junius Brutus Booth was a renowned 19th-century English-born American Shakespearean actor known for his powerful performances and as the patriarch of the famous Booth acting family.
  • C. John E. Booth
    John E. Booth is a local American politician who has served as the mayor of Lucas, Texas.
  • D. Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth
    "Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth" is a biographical memoir in which Edwina Booth offers a personal and intimate portrait of her father, the famed 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth.
  • E. Edwin Booth
    Edwin Booth was a renowned 19th-century American stage actor, celebrated as one of the greatest tragedians of his era and known for his definitive portrayals of Shakespearean characters such as Hamlet.
  • 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: Edman Spangler – stagehand who assisted Booth at Ford’s Theatre
Triple: [Lincoln assassination conspirators, hasMemberRole, Edman Spangler – stagehand who assisted Booth at Ford’s Theatre]
Generated description
Edman Spangler was a stagehand at Ford’s Theatre who was implicated as a minor accomplice in John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edman Spangler – stagehand who assisted Booth at Ford’s Theatre
Target entity description: Edman Spangler was a stagehand at Ford’s Theatre who was implicated as a minor accomplice in John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
  • A. Junius Brutus Booth Jr.
    Junius Brutus Booth Jr. was a 19th-century American stage actor and theater manager, best known as the elder brother of John Wilkes Booth and Edwin Booth.
  • B. Junius Brutus Booth
    Junius Brutus Booth was a renowned 19th-century English-born American Shakespearean actor known for his powerful performances and as the patriarch of the famous Booth acting family.
  • C. John E. Booth
    John E. Booth is a local American politician who has served as the mayor of Lucas, Texas.
  • D. Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth
    "Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth" is a biographical memoir in which Edwina Booth offers a personal and intimate portrait of her father, the famed 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth.
  • E. Edwin Booth
    Edwin Booth was a renowned 19th-century American stage actor, celebrated as one of the greatest tragedians of his era and known for his definitive portrayals of Shakespearean characters such as Hamlet.
  • 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_69ca82b886d88190a9cba0d5a4a27521 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb42bbf20c8190aa8c272b5c39002d completed March 31, 2026, 3:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc641d96e88190adee974b79d5fc05 completed April 1, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc68d9032c8190af6c5ff64fe46aff completed April 1, 2026, 12:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc69f6bb308190a95df95d1a67cfec completed April 1, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:31 p.m.