Triple
T8679538
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Silas Lapham |
E205999
|
entity |
| Predicate | spouse |
P13
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Persis Lapham |
E389209
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Persis Lapham | Statement: [Silas Lapham, spouse, Persis Lapham]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Persis Lapham Context triple: [Silas Lapham, spouse, Persis Lapham]
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A.
Persis Lapham
chosen
Persis Lapham is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s realist novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," depicted as the morally grounded wife who provides emotional and ethical balance to her ambitious husband.
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B.
Phyllis Ames
Phyllis Ames was the wife of Archibald Cox, the prominent American lawyer and Watergate special prosecutor.
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C.
Elizabeth Griscom
Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
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D.
Elizabeth Wendell
Elizabeth Wendell was a colonial-era New England woman best known as the mother of Dorothy Quincy, who became the wife of American Founding Father John Hancock.
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E.
Phebe Toothaker
Phebe Toothaker was a young girl involved in the Salem witch trials, known primarily for her connection to accused witch Martha Carrier and for giving testimony during the proceedings.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca835379688190aa06b9d98e684d58 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc49f8fa948190a070e90d17b4ede2 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d94aceb7108190beeec78587c04161 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 7:09 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:32 p.m.