Triple

T844319
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mary Todd Lincoln E18243 entity
Predicate stepmother P14091 FINISHED
Object Elizabeth Humphreys Todd
Elizabeth Humphreys Todd was the stepmother of Mary Todd Lincoln, the future First Lady of the United States.
E241737 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Elizabeth Humphreys Todd | Statement: [Mary Todd Lincoln, stepmother, Elizabeth Humphreys Todd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elizabeth Humphreys Todd
Context triple: [Mary Todd Lincoln, stepmother, Elizabeth Humphreys Todd]
  • A. Flora Hewlett
    Flora Hewlett was a philanthropist whose legacy is honored through the naming of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a major charitable organization.
  • B. Margaret Moffette Lea
    Margaret Moffette Lea was the second wife of Texas statesman Sam Houston and a prominent 19th-century Southern woman known for her influence on his personal life and religious convictions.
  • C. Ellen Louisa Tucker
    Ellen Louisa Tucker was the first wife of American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose early death deeply influenced his life and work.
  • D. Maud Humphrey
    Maud Humphrey was an American illustrator and commercial artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her popular depictions of children and as the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart.
  • E. Margaret Bremond Rice
    Margaret Bremond Rice was the wife of American businessman and philanthropist William Marsh Rice, founder of Rice University.
  • 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: Elizabeth Humphreys Todd
Triple: [Mary Todd Lincoln, stepmother, Elizabeth Humphreys Todd]
Generated description
Elizabeth Humphreys Todd was the stepmother of Mary Todd Lincoln, the future First Lady of the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elizabeth Humphreys Todd
Target entity description: Elizabeth Humphreys Todd was the stepmother of Mary Todd Lincoln, the future First Lady of the United States.
  • A. Flora Hewlett
    Flora Hewlett was a philanthropist whose legacy is honored through the naming of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a major charitable organization.
  • B. Margaret Moffette Lea
    Margaret Moffette Lea was the second wife of Texas statesman Sam Houston and a prominent 19th-century Southern woman known for her influence on his personal life and religious convictions.
  • C. Ellen Louisa Tucker
    Ellen Louisa Tucker was the first wife of American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose early death deeply influenced his life and work.
  • D. Maud Humphrey
    Maud Humphrey was an American illustrator and commercial artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her popular depictions of children and as the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart.
  • E. Margaret Bremond Rice
    Margaret Bremond Rice was the wife of American businessman and philanthropist William Marsh Rice, founder of Rice University.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: stepmother
Context triple: [Mary Todd Lincoln, stepmother, Elizabeth Humphreys Todd]
  • A. motherInLaw
    Indicates a relationship where one person is the mother of another person's spouse.
  • B. stepfatherOf
    Indicates that one person is the male spouse or partner of a child's parent, but is not the child's biological or adoptive father.
  • C. stepMotherOf chosen
    Indicates that one person is the female spouse or partner of a parent of another person, but is not that person's biological or adoptive mother.
  • D. alternativeMother
    Indicates that one entity serves as an alternative or substitute mother to another entity.
  • E. motherFrom
    Indicates that one entity is the mother (biological or adoptive) of another entity, specifying a maternal parent-child relationship from the mother to the child.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a4938b04208190b82e1df6b572c548 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac09249c8190a8099b94a3c9e2cc completed March 1, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae5d73c10c8190a059c3ae6b3a6279 completed March 9, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae5e027ea48190a052556d43c39f73 completed March 9, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5ea4edcc81908829e4bd64ce0aea completed March 9, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a4aa7f396c8190aa8b8dfbe0b4f732 completed March 1, 2026, 9:07 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.